English translation of an article originally published in Japanese on June 24, 2025. Read the Japanese original (Japanese). Event dates and availability refer to the original article. Images may contain Japanese text.
On June 24, 2025, alongside O-MU-TSU WORLD EXPO at the Expo Hall ‘Shine Hat’ at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, we held O-MU-TSU VIRTUAL EXPO in the virtual Expo space ‘空飛ぶ夢洲’ (Soratobu Yumeshima).
At the O-MU-TSU WORLD EXPO, accessibility was one of the key themes. In order to allow people who find it difficult to visit the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan venue due to physical conditions, work, or residence area to participate, a virtual venue has been prepared.
From 9:00 to 22:00 that day, O-MU-TSU VIRTUAL EXPO used a virtual version of the Expo Hall ‘Shine Hat’ on ‘集いの島’ (Gathering Island) as its venue.
At the venue, we held two sessions of “Virtual Consultation for Concerns about Elimination” from 12:00 to 13:00 and from 20:00 to 22:00.
Participants enter the venue through an avatar and can approach consultants whose specialties are indicated in their names, such as “Utsu Consultant,” to seek advice on products and care for incontinence and excretion. Consultants who are members active in fields such as medical, care, and welfare serve as consultants.
At the time, Hiroshi Yagi also helped plan and run O-MU-TSU VIRTUAL EXPO as deputy representative director of the organizing Japan Welfare Medical Fashion Association.
Whether or not you attend the physical venue, access to necessary information and opportunities for consultation is one aspect of accessibility. It became a program that considers life with a diaper and social participation.
[VR Diaper Project]https://wel-fashion.jp/ve-yumeshima/
[Official Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan website: Virtual Expo]https://www.expo2025.or.jp/future-index/virtual/virtual-site/
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