Build a society and culture where diverse forms of Inochi can flourish in harmony through creativity, inclusiveness, and playfulness, and create new kinds of schools, companies, and hospitals that enable everyone to express their creativity.

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Inochi Declaration

2025.11.05

Build a society and culture where diverse forms of Inochi can flourish in harmony through creativity, inclusiveness, and playfulness, and create new kinds of schools, companies, and hospitals that enable everyone to express their creativity.

Every Inochi is endowed with boundless creativity and radiant potential. Inochi is ever-changing, full of dynamic possibilities and a presence defined by its very fluctuation. However, society and culture today are not yet mature, and the brilliance and creativity of each individual are often not fully realized. Some may lose confidence, thinking: “I can’t do X” or “I lack X compared to others,” and go through life unable to harness their strengths. At times, even without ill intent, ignorance of differences may lead to unintentional prejudice, resulting in discrimination, bullying, harassment, conflict, or violence. These are not personal faults but structural and societal challenges—obstacles created by the system itself.

The Jellyfish Team, centered around the signature pavilion “Playground of Life: Jellyfish Pavilion” at the EXPO 2025 Osaka, Kansai produced by Sachiko Nakajima, is expanding its initiatives from this base. The team works to “playfully stir society” so that diverse individuals can get to know, sense, respect, and trust one another—thus enabling genuine dialogue, even confrontation when needed.

The team includes those with disabilities, different nationalities, refugee backgrounds, indigenous identities, diverse genders, and varied backgrounds, regions, families, personalities, and characteristics. It is precisely because of such differences and perceived vulnerabilities that new perspectives emerge. Differences and vulnerabilities are valuable—they are the seeds of innovation toward a future in which every Inochi unleashes its radiant light. Connecting diverse existences to generate new futures: this is the essence of learning and playing in our time. It is the beginning of an era where everyone becomes a co-creator of society and culture.

The Jellyfish Team also emphasizes the vital role of culture. Culture is not simply language or symbols—it is cultivated through daily life and the subtle sensations and signs we experience. We feel Inochi as we walk, eat, laugh, and sleep. We suffer, rejoice, cry, and smile. We live not only among people but also with mountains, seas, rivers, forests, meadows, and cities.

Culture emerges from the ever-changing, one-time-only “now” of countless forms of Inochi, shaped by both professionals and amateurs alike. It may sometimes appear as exquisite craftsmanship or performing arts, but at its heart lies the ultimate expression of the beauty of being just as one is. Festivals, folk performing arts, traditional crafts, local dishes, lullabies—culture that has continued from the past and continues to evolve now is crucial for sensing Inochi in its purest form. Culture grows when different traditions meet, clash, and transcend differences—even across time and space. Like live music, culture is the harmonious co-cre- ation of Inochi with technology and the digital realm, transforming toward the future.

Through the Expo and other platforms, the Jellyfish Team has been catalyzing social mixing and the co-creation and resonance of diverse existences and cultures. Under the motto “The joy of creating for all!”, the team aims to democratize creativity. Our first step has been to create inclusive, playful, well-being spaces where diverse individuals can feel accepted and present as they are. Learning, working, living, creating, and playing are all one and the same. Even after the Expo, the Jellyfish Team will continue its efforts to transform schools, universities, companies, welfare facilities, hospitals, care homes, museums, libraries, and more by 2050—reconnecting each with its essential purpose and building a society and culture where every Inochi unleashes its radiant light. We will reinterpret the meaning of these institutions and breathe new life into their historical significance, including the Expo itself.

The Inochi Forum will continue to collaborate with with organizations such as the Jellyfish Team beyond the Expo, further developing the connections formed there and fostering mutual understanding and resonance across diverse sectors, co-creating a more beautiful future together.