{"id":1019,"date":"2019-11-26T15:24:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:56:19","slug":"mgm-osaka-resort-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/mgm-osaka-resort-casino","title":{"rendered":"MGM Resorts confirmed its partnership with Osaka for RFP process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese financial services group Orix Corporation will also be partnering with the city in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- Osaka is the first Japanese city to confirmed its partner for their request for proposal (RFP) process. MGM Resorts will be in charge to <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/mgm-osaka-proposal\">develop an integrated resort<\/a><\/em><\/strong> if Osaka is one of the three communities that the national government choose in the next years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMGM and Orix \u2013 along with other companies that have strong bases in Kansai and Osaka forming the consortium \u2013 will create a strong partnership and realize an authentically-Osaka\/Kansai IR that will disseminate the appeal of Osaka and Kansai to the world,\u201d said a statement issued by a spokesman for MGM Resorts Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city has decided to move forward with their plans by including MGM Resorts within the RFP process, making them one of their first official partners. Japanese financial services group Orix Corporation will also be partnering with the city in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Osaka prefecture and city announced their implementation policy draft last Thursday. They stipulated the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/osaka-ir-conditions\">conditions<\/a><\/em><\/strong> required of operators for an IR and outlining plans to launch its RFP by December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MGM Resorts anticipated to other companies that were interested to invest in Osaka. Last Friday, <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/galaxy-requests-ir-japan-casino\">Galaxy announced<\/a><\/em><\/strong> its interested in some cities, including Osaka. Genting Singapore dreamed with this development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan\u2019s national government also <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-casinos-proposals\">revealed<\/a><\/em><\/strong> last week that it would accept IR certification applications in early 2021.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese financial services group Orix Corporation will also be partnering with the city in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Osaka has designated MGM Resorts and Orix Corporation as its preferred consortium for the Integrated Resort (IR) Request for Proposal (RFP) process, contingent upon the national government's selection of Osaka as one of three IR locations. This strategic alignment precedes the national government's acceptance of IR certification applications in early 2021, intensifying the competitive landscape for Japan's nascent casino market among global operators.","focusai_entities":"MGM Resorts, Orix Corporation, MGM Resorts Japan, Galaxy, Genting Singapore","focusai_location":"Japan, Osaka, Kansai","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Osaka IR Timeline?","query":"What are the projected critical path milestones and potential regulatory or political contingencies that could impact the final approval and development timeline for Osaka's IR project?"},{"label":"Competitive Landscape Shift?","query":"How does Osaka's selection of the MGM-Orix consortium strategically reconfigure the competitive landscape for the remaining IR licenses, particularly for other major global operators like Galaxy and Genting Singapore?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16338],"tags":[96,29,473,470,1616,707],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-asia","tag-casino","tag-ir","tag-japan","tag-mgm","tag-osaka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","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=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}