ZERI JAPAN will exhibit the Pavilion Blue Ocean Dome at the Expo 2025 OSAKA, KANSAI. Your understanding and support would be greatly appreciated. The “Osaka Blue Ocean Vision” was declared at the G20 meeting in Japan in 2019. In response to this declaration, in this pavilion, we hope to study and understand Blue Ocean issues, work with people around the world on how to use the oceans for the future, and promote the sustainable use of the oceans. We share the current situation that our mother oceans are now in danger from plastic marine pollution, the decrease of marine living resources and biodiversity, global warming of seawater, acidification of seawater, etc., and hope that a movement will be started from each standpoint.

ZERI JAPAN also signed a partnership agreement with Tsushima City in Nagasaki Prefecture on September 22, 2022. ZERI JAPAN plans to conduct various demonstration experiments to collect and dispose of 100% of the island’s debris, recycle it into resources and energy, and shift the island’s economy from a linear economy to a circular economy. We hope to expand this model to Pacific island countries and other island nations as a model in the future. We will strengthen cooperation with each of the islands in preparation for the Expo.

Absorption of carbon dioxide and blue carbon in the ocean through seaweed cultivation is of great importance. For this reason, ZERI JAPAN will conduct a demonstration experiment in Minami-Boso City, Chiba Prefecture, with the cooperation of Nippon Steel Corporation, to cultivate large arame and kajime seaweeds. ZERI JAPAN will continue its research and development on the utilization of seaweed.

Through the cooperation with the Climate Change Network and the Tipping Point Study Group, a turning point from which climate change cannot return, we will educate the public in concrete ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address global warming.

With regard to the Blue Ocean Project, we will implement various projects in cooperation with the Blue Ocean Initiative, a non-profit organization established in November 2022, and the Nikkei Blue Ocean Forum toward the 2025 World Expo and 2030, the year of the end of SDGs .

We would like to thank all ZERI JAPAN members and stakeholders for your continued guidance and encouragement.

President, ZERI JAPAN

Yusuke Saraya