Japanese artist Mudo Yuriko yesterday proposed a children's drawings exhibit at 2010 World Expo during a meeting in Shanghai with Hong Hao, director of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination.

Yuriko specializes in arranging landscapes and making puppets. She expressed hope that there would be space for children's drawings at the Expo to reflect their desires.

Yuriko showed Hong several children's drawings from different countries that were exhibited at the 2005 Aichi Expo.

Hong said the suggestion was "innovative" and that organizers would consider it.

Hong said he was impressed with the enthusiasm Japanese people shown towards Expo 2010.