{"id":10427,"date":"2020-09-28T21:34:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T21:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=10427"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:28:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:28:25","slug":"kamori-given-10-month-suspended-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/kamori-given-10-month-suspended-sentence","title":{"rendered":"Kamori given 10-month suspended sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former chairman was convicted over his participation in a bribery case involving 500.com and Japan&#8217;s IR project.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japan.- The former chairman of tourism and hospitality firm Kamori Kanko, Kimihito Kamori, has received a 10-month sentence suspended for two years in relation to an IR bribery case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The executive <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/kamori-founder-faces-prison-for-ir-bribery-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">was found guilty<\/a><\/em><\/strong> of conspiracy to supply travel expenses to the House of Representatives member, Tsukasa Akimoto, on a trip to Hokkaido between September 2017 and February 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kamori Kanko was involved in Chinese gambling platform 500.com&#8217;s plans to develop a regional integrated resort (IR) in Hokkaido\u2019s Rusutsu Village. He invited the lawmaker and his family on a ski trip in the location, paying expenses of about \u00a5760,000 (US$7,250).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The judgment read that Kamori provided the most expensive room and round-trip transportation for Akimoto and his family, and also provided entertainment and \u201caccepted intrusive information regarding IR-related bills from the senior vice minister.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">500.com was subject to a <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japanese-lawmaker-accepted-%c2%a51-million-from-chinese-operator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bribery investigation<\/a><\/em><\/strong> after two Japanese lawmakers visited its offices in Shenzhen and a casino in Macau in 2017, with all expenses paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former chairman was convicted over his participation in a bribery case involving 500.com and Japan&#8217;s IR project.\u00a0\u00a0<\/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":"The former chairman of Kamori Kanko, Kimihito Kamori, received a suspended sentence for his involvement in a bribery case linked to Japan's Integrated Resort (IR) project. Kamori was found guilty of providing illicit travel expenses to lawmaker Tsukasa Akimoto, facilitating 500.com's IR development ambitions in Hokkaido. This conviction underscores significant governance and regulatory compliance challenges within nascent iGaming and tourism markets.","focusai_entities":"Kamori Kanko, Kimihito Kamori, 500.com, Tsukasa Akimoto, House of Representatives","focusai_location":"Japan, Hokkaido, Rusutsu Village, Shenzhen, Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IR Project Integrity","query":"What specific enhancements to Japan's IR licensing and governance frameworks are anticipated following this high-profile bribery conviction to prevent future illicit influence?"},{"label":"500.com Market Impact","query":"How does 500.com's historical involvement in this bribery case impact its current and future B2B\/B2C licensing prospects and market expansion strategies in other regulated jurisdictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[22405,473,470],"class_list":["post-10427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legal-news","tag-bribery","tag-ir","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427","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=10427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10431,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427\/revisions\/10431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}