{"id":20275,"date":"2025-07-24T12:35:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/20275\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:35:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:35:27","slug":"expo-2025-spotlights-japans-vision-for-sustainable-food-and-next-gen-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/20275\/","title":{"rendered":"Expo 2025 spotlights Japan\u2019s vision for sustainable food and next-gen healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    Published on                 21\/07\/2025 &#8211; 15:00 GMT+2<br \/>\n                \u2022Updated<br \/>\n                                     15:46\n                                        <\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-grey-6-180x22.svg\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n            ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>At Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, the country is using its national strengths\u2014craftsmanship, cuisine, and cutting-edge science\u2014to address urgent global challenges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the Necessities of Life: Food, Clothing and Shelter Theme Week, food took centre stage, with a focus on sustainable practices deeply rooted in Japanese culture.Visitors joined craftspeople to build a traditional kioke barrel, used for fermenting soy sauce, symbolising collaboration in sustainability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Inside the Relay the Food exhibition, discussions focused on nutrition and planetary health, Michelin-starred chef Murata Yoshihiro, CEO and Executive Chef of Kikunoi, underscored the low-carbon benefits of Japanese cuisine, which is vegetable-centred, light on meat, and often made without oil. \u201cThis way of cooking and thinking,\u201d he said, \u201cis a plus for global health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jo\u00e3o Campari, Global Lead for Food and Agriculture at WWF International, warned that food waste is a critical problem: \u201cWe\u2019re wasting about 40% of all food produced,\u201d he said, citing climate-related crop issues and inadequate storage.<\/p>\n<p>Health innovation took the spotlight during the Health and Well-Being Theme Week. Professor Sawa Yoshiki, a leading cardiac surgeon and Specially-Appointed Professor at University of Osaka, showcased progress in regenerative therapy using iPS (induced pluripotent stem) cells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo overcome the heart failure pandemic,\u201d he said, \u201corgan failure should be controlled by iPS cells. It is very promising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence is also making inroads in medicine. Belgian immunologist Professor Damya Laoui sees AI as key to personalising cancer treatments: \u201cWe\u2019re moving towards combination therapies tailored to each patient. That\u2019s where AI could help us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 21\/07\/2025 &#8211; 15:00 GMT+2 \u2022Updated 15:46 ADVERTISEMENT At Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, the country is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[13111,8798,102,2960,2453,386,3100,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-20275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-cooking","9":"tag-exhibition","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-innovation","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-medicine","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}