{"id":10483,"date":"2020-09-30T05:20:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T05:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=10483"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:24:38","slug":"japan-to-delay-ir-proposals-by-6-12-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-to-delay-ir-proposals-by-6-12-months","title":{"rendered":"Japan to delay IR proposals by 6-12 months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to authorities in Nagasaki, the national government is planning to postpone the period to accept proposals for IR developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- The national government plans to delay the period during which prefectures can deliver their<strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ir-supporter-to-become-prime-minister-of-japan\" target=\"_blank\"> integrated resorts proposals<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by between six and 12 months, according to authorities in Nagasaki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nagasaki prefecture said that, according to a survey conducted among casino operators, a large majority of the firms supported Nagasaki\u2019s own decision to pause its request-for-proposal (RFP) process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This pause is directly related to the fact that national policy for IR development has not yet been published, leaving prefectures and potential private partners in the dark over the ground rules for bids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three IRs will be permitted nationally in the first phase of liberalisation in Japan. The policy has been presented as a stimulus for regional economies, intended to attract tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the calendar for the introduction of IRs has been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and the recent assumption of a new prime minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to authorities in Nagasaki, the national government is planning to postpone the period to accept proposals for IR developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10487,"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 Japanese national government is reportedly planning to postpone the acceptance period for Integrated Resort (IR) development proposals by six to twelve months. This delay, confirmed by Nagasaki authorities, stems from the unreleased national policy for IR development, leaving prefectures and potential private partners without clear bidding guidelines and impacting the initial phase of market liberalisation.","focusai_entities":"Nagasaki, Japan","focusai_location":"Japan, Nagasaki","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Policy Delay Impact?","query":"What specific governance frameworks and regulatory compliance elements are still pending from the national government, and how will their absence impact the B2B\/B2C licensing process for prospective IR operators?"},{"label":"Operator Strategy Shift?","query":"How might major international casino operators, having already invested in preliminary market analysis, adjust their capital allocation and market entry strategies in response to this prolonged regulatory uncertainty in Japan?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,161,16338,154,158],"tags":[473,470,225,1534],"class_list":["post-10483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-legislation-news","category-slider-home","tag-ir","tag-japan","tag-legislation","tag-nagasaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483","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=10483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10499,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483\/revisions\/10499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}