the new prime minister of Japan.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nSuga has been appointed leader of the Liberal Democratic Party following the resignation of Shinzo Abe, and has now been named prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Masayoshi Matsumoto, chairman of the Kansai Economic Federation, said: \u201c[The administration] has been deeply involved in big projects in Kansai such as the Osaka\/Kansai Expo and integrated resorts (IR), so this is reassuring for the Kansai business community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ken Furuichi, secretary general of the Kansai Association of Corporate Executives, said: \u201cI have high expectations for Suga, as someone who represents a rural area, to make efforts to correct the overconcentration in Tokyo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Governor Yoshinobu Nisaka of Wakayama prefecture, which is in the Kansai region and seeks to bid for an IR, said he hopes that Suga \u201cwill move forward\u201d with the delayed publication of Japan\u2019s Basic Policy on IRs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kansai politicians and businessmen have shown support for Suga’s leadership while awaiting a national policy for IR developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Kansai region political and business leaders have expressed strong support for Japan's new Prime Minister, Yoshihide Suga, particularly regarding his administration's potential to advance the long-awaited national policy for Integrated Resort (IR) developments. Stakeholders anticipate Suga's leadership will expedite the regulatory framework crucial for the region's IR aspirations, including the Osaka\/Kansai Expo and Wakayama's bid.","focusai_entities":"Yoshihide Suga, Shinzo Abe, Masayoshi Matsumoto, Kansai Economic Federation, Ken Furuichi, Kansai Association of Corporate Executives, Yoshinobu Nisaka, Liberal Democratic Party","focusai_location":"Japan, Kansai, Osaka, Wakayama, Tokyo","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.75), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IR Policy Timeline","query":"What specific legislative or administrative actions are anticipated from the Suga administration to accelerate the publication and implementation of Japan's Basic Policy on IRs, and what is the revised projected timeline for these developments?"},{"label":"Regional IR Impact","query":"How might the expedited or delayed progress on the national IR policy specifically impact the competitive landscape and investment attractiveness for proposed IR sites in the Kansai region, particularly Osaka and Wakayama?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,161,16338,154,158],"tags":[473,470,225],"class_list":["post-10039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-legislation-news","category-slider-home","tag-ir","tag-japan","tag-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10039"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10053,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions\/10053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}