Staffing firm Pasona Group Inc. said Friday it will open a new complex this fall where visitors can experience the exhibition it presented at its pavilion during last year’s World Exposition in Osaka, western Japan.
The facility, to be located on Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture, will recreate 80 to 90 percent of the displays from the company’s pavilion, including a myocardial sheet made using induced pluripotent stem cell technology — part of the popular beating “iPS heart” that drew around 2.15 million visitors.
At the six-month expo that ended in October, Pasona’s “Natureverse” pavilion featured exhibits on the natural world, advanced technologies and their connection to human well-being.
The new facility will include a space where visitors can take a peek into the role microorganisms play in the natural world, as well as an exhibit that showcases a futuristic bed using the latest technology to provide optimal sleep.
“We want to create an opportunity for people who were unable to see it at the expo to experience it,” Kinuko Yamamoto, vice president of the company, said at a press conference in Osaka.
The ammonite-shaped exhibition hall built for the pavilion at the expo site is scheduled to be relocated to Awaji Island in fiscal 2027, but it will not be part of the facility when it opens this year.
==Kyodo
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