Dr. Minoru Makimura, Chairman of Science Technology and Innovation Committee of Kansai Economic Federation, together with Mr. Kazuyuki Nakane, State minister of Foreign Affairs visited the World Exposition in Astana, Kazakhstan from August 21 to 22, 2017.

They had a meeting with H.E. Mr. Kairat Abdrakhmanov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan. They also visited various pavilions and appealed the attractive point of Osaka-Kansai to invite the World Exposition in 2025 to government representatives from all over the world.