Tokyo is getting a taste of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. TAKARA BELMONT CORPORATION is relocating part of "Quantum Leap for Beauty World," the exhibit it showed at the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion during Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, to its Tokyo head office. To mark the completion of the move, the exhibit will open to the public free of charge for one day only, on Saturday, August 8.
The initiative is guided by the philosophy "THINK CIRCULAR for SPACE AGE," aimed at building a sustainable society. It forms part of TAKARA BELMONT's sustainability action plan, created so that the excitement and ideas from the Expo are not a one-time event but are carried forward to the next generation.
Beyond viewing the relocated exhibit, visitors can try on and be photographed in the Expo uniforms, attend talk shows, and browse exhibits from partner companies and organizations — all designed to spark conversation about "beauty in the space age" and the future of society.
On the day, guests can try on and be photographed in the Expo uniforms designed by world-renowned designer Junko Koshino, and attend a special lecture by Miya Yamade, associate professor at Ritsumeikan University and head of ZERO GRAVITY DESIGN, who designed the exhibition booth itself. Additional Expo-related businesses and organizations — including 国際文化評論社, publisher of the magazine 新しいユニフォーム whose editor-in-chief is Yukiko Kobayashi, 株式会社鼓月, 株式会社ウォーターネット, 太陽工業株式会社, and 公益社団法人２０２７年国際園芸博覧会協会 — will share the Expo's legacy and ideas for the future through exhibits, talk shows, and seminars.
Having taken part in two World Expositions — in 1970 and again in 2025 — TAKARA BELMONT plans to keep carrying this "Expo legacy" forward to the next generation.
Event Overview: "Quantum Leap for Beauty World" Tokyo Public Viewing
- Date & Time: Saturday, August 8, 2026, 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Venue: TAKARA BELMONT CORPORATION Tokyo Head Office, 1st Floor
- Address: 7-1-19 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052
- Content: The relocated exhibit, plus Expo uniform try-on and photo sessions, exhibits from six Expo-related companies and organizations, and talk shows
Access:
- A 6-minute walk from Exit 4 (Minami-Aoyama side) of Aoyama-itchome Station, on the Hanzomon, Ginza, and Toei Oedo subway lines
- An 8-minute walk from Exit A of Akasaka-mitsuke Station, on the Marunouchi and Ginza subway lines
- No on-site parking is available; please use public transportation.
Special Talk Shows and Seminars
Venue: TAKARA BELMONT CORPORATION Tokyo Head Office, 5th Floor
| Time | Program | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 11:30 AM–12:00 PM | The People Who Built the Expo, the People Who Tell Its Story — The "Baton to the Future" Left by 小林昌一, an Unsung Figure Behind the 1970 Osaka Expo | Yukiko Kobayashi, editor-in-chief of 新しいユニフォーム, published by 国際文化評論社 |
| 1:00–1:45 PM | Space × Architecture × Beauty — Diversity and New Ways of Living in the Space Age, as Seen Through the TAKARA BELMONT Expo Booth | Miya Yamade, Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University |
| 2:00–2:30 PM | Japanese Sweets × Sports — New Possibilities Shared at the Expo | Yusuke Torigai (株式会社鼓月), Takuya Todo (アミノアップ), guest athlete Mai Fujisawa |
| 3:00–3:30 PM | Introducing GREEN×EXPO 2027 | Yuki Maetani, Head of Public Relations, 公益社団法人２０２７年国際園芸博覧会協会 |
Speaker Profiles
Yukiko Kobayashi
Editor-in-Chief, 新しいユニフォーム, 国際文化評論社
She reports on corporate culture and the people behind it through the lens of uniforms. Her father, 小林昌一, is known as an unsung figure behind the 1970 Osaka Expo; she carries his passion for the Expo forward, passing its ideas and values on to the next generation.
Miya Yamade
Associate Professor, College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University / Representative, ZERO GRAVITY DESIGN
She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering and works as a community designer. At Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, she designed TAKARA BELMONT's booth, "Quantum Leap for Beauty World."
Yusuke Torigai
Public Relations, General Affairs Department, 株式会社鼓月
He handles everything from product PR to corporate branding and regional partnership projects. As the Expo lead for 株式会社鼓月's exhibit in the Kyoto Zone of the Kansai Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, he oversaw the display and tastings of "anpower," an energy-boosting yōkan, sharing the value of Japanese confectionery in sports under the theme "Bringing the Power of Wagashi and Anko to the World."
Takuya Todo
Public Relations, Sales Department, アミノアップ
At this Sapporo-based maker of functional food ingredients, whose mission is "bringing smiles to people around the world through the gifts of nature" and which handles research, development, and manufacturing, he focuses mainly on communication with athletes and PR at sporting events. Oligonol, one of the company's key ingredients and a component of "anpower," is used by numerous top athletes.
Mai Fujisawa
Sapporo Excel Athlete Club
One of Japan's leading ultrarunners, she has competed in the IAU 100km World Championships 11 times in a row, placing third individually and winning team gold in 2018. She has topped the age-group world rankings in the marathon for three consecutive years, and uses the Oligonol-containing "anpower" in training and races. Personal bests: 100km – 7:31:57, 50km – 3:25:10, marathon – 2:35:52.
Yuki Maetani
Head of Public Relations, 公益社団法人２０２７年国際園芸博覧会協会
She works on external communications and outreach for the 2027 International Horticultural Expo (GREEN×EXPO 2027). At Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, she served as deputy director of the Future City Pavilion, led by the organization running the Expo, handling operations and hosting domestic and international dignitaries. Drawing on that experience, she is now on secondment from Hitachi, Ltd. to work on this project and help build momentum for the event.
About "Quantum Leap for Beauty World"
"Quantum Leap for Beauty World" is the name of the booth TAKARA BELMONT exhibited at the popular Osaka Healthcare Pavilion during Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. It poses a question: by 2050, as business built around life in space expands, might our very idea of "beauty" — even our fixed assumptions about it — undergo a similar leap? Built around that question, the booth's concept became "Quantum Leap for Beauty World." Using an exhibit imagining the beauty realized by a "Healthcare Salon of the Future" that blends beauty and medicine, together with digital content (approximately 120,000 copies distributed), guests were invited to think about "true beauty" in the space age.
About "THINK CIRCULAR for SPACE AGE"
This is TAKARA BELMONT's post-Expo initiative, built on the idea that "our exhibition booth should generate zero waste." That idea became the guiding principle "THINK CIRCULAR for SPACE AGE."
Under the purpose "Making a Beautiful Life Come True," the initiative accelerates TAKARA BELMONT's sustainability efforts while carrying the ideas and experiences shared through the Expo into the future.
- First step: Donating the Expo uniforms to educational institutions nationwide (50 schools were selected from 64 applicants)
- Second step: Completing the relocation of the exhibition booth
