Yamaha is contributing to the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai by providing musical instruments and technical support

[Main visual] Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan

Yamaha’s Commitment to Building Bridges to the Future with Sound

Identifying with the concept of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Yamaha is contributing to the Expo by providing musical instruments and technical support. The theme of the Expo is “Designing Future Society for Our Lives,” which means to consider how to build a better society by balancing technological innovation and humanity. We at Yamaha strive to impact people’s hearts and minds and connect the world through sound and music based on our corporate philosophy of “Sharing Passion and Performance.” Yamaha does more than offer musical instruments, audio equipment, and musical experiences; we continuously take on challenges that look toward the future of music and society by creating next-generation musical experiences with AI and network technology, developing sustainable materials, and more.
Connecting People of All Nations, Cultures, and Ages—
Yamaha will play a part in bringing everyone who visits the Expo new awareness and inspiration through the universal power of music. We want to be with you the moment you compose the future.

[Image] Physical Twin Symphony ©Expo 2025
[Image] Playground of Life: Jellyfish Pavilion ©KURAGE Project & steAm, Inc.
[Image] Better Co-Being

Pavilions and Events to which Yamaha is Contributing

Signature Pavilions

Yamaha has installed audio equipment and network devices at the Better Co-Being Pavilion, centered around the VXL series WR model—an all-weather line array speaker system. By providing this equipment, we are contributing to the “resonance experiences” at the pavilion using sound.

What is the “VXL series WR model?”
The VXL series WR model is a line array speaker system for outdoor use, and Yamaha’s first IP55-compliant all-weather speaker system. Highly weather-resistant and designed to blend in with its surroundings, the system is being used in the “resonance experiences” at the Better Co-Being Pavilion.

  • Note: Yamaha is a supplier for the Better Co-Being Signature Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai.
[Image] Better Co-Being
[Image] Better Co-Being

Message from producer Hiroaki Miyata

I would like to thank everyone at Yamaha for contributing the audio of the Better Co-Being “resonance experiences.” Yamaha provided audio equipment centered around speakers designed to blend in with the beautiful wall-less, roof-less surroundings. The speaker system demonstrates its effectiveness by producing ambient sound that creates the overall atmosphere of the pavilion and providing the climax at the epilogue. I urge you to focus on the sound when you visit!

[Image] Producer Hiroaki Miyata

Hiroaki Miyata’s Profile
Born in 1978, Hiroaki Miyata is a professor at Keio University’s School of Medicine. His research activities revolve around contributing to social transformation and the betterment of the world by leveraging his specialties, which include data science, the scientific method, value co-creation, and data science. Miyata is involved in a wide range of initiatives including the National Clinical Database—a database involving 5,000 hospitals linked to the medical specialist certification system—and nationwide COVID-19 LINE surveys led by the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare. He also develops visions for a new society in collaboration with a variety of stakeholders that include not only academic institutions, but also government, business organizations, NPOs, and companies. One of the visions for society he has co-created is “resonant society”—a diverse society in which lives resonate with each other and each individual shines through as they share in that collective experience.

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Column Line Array Speakers VXL Series WR model
Power Amplifiers XMV Series
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A Yamaha CFX full concert grand piano wrapped in pictures of jellyfish drawn by children from around the world is being exhibited at the Playground of Life: Jellyfish Pavilion. Yamaha was involved in wrapping the piano and is providing technical support such as tuning services during the Expo. We have also provided instruments and equipment such as keyboards and drum sets for musical events held at the pavilion.

  • Note: Yamaha is a partner of the Playground of Life: Jellyfish Pavilion, a signature pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai.
[Image] Piano of Hope

Message from producer Sachiko Nakajima

On the second floor of the Playground of Life, there is a piano called the “Piano of Hope” that anyone is free to play. The piano is often called the king of instruments and Yamaha’s CFX is the pinnacle of pianos. The Piano of Hope is wrapped in pictures of jellyfish drawn by people, who are or used to be children, from ages 0 to 120, which is meant to symbolize that everyone is welcome to play it. Yamaha provided the wrapping and maintenance. Every day the many visitors to the Jellyfish Pavilion produce sounds brimming with creativity on the piano. Come give the Piano of Hope a try when you visit.

[Image] Producer Sachiko Nakajima

Sachiko Nakajima’s Profile
Sachiko Nakajima is a jazz pianist, composer, mathematics researcher, STEAM educator, CEO of steAm, Inc., and media artist. She has served on several committees of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Cabinet Office, and local governments studying educational reforms and has participated in many pilot projects.

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Concert Grand Piano CFX
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