{"id":10733,"date":"2020-10-08T05:08:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T05:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=10733"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:09:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:09:45","slug":"yokohama-to-host-a-ir-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/yokohama-to-host-a-ir-symposium","title":{"rendered":"Yokohama to host a IR symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yokohama city has announced an event to discuss its integrated resort bid and promote the project to residents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- Yokohama city is to host a public symposium to discuss its intended IR bid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yokohama intends to bid for one of three casino resort licences that Japan intends to grant next year, but opposition has been mounting among residents. The symposium intends to offer more information to allay people&#8217;s concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities said: \u201cWe will hold a symposium comprising lectures by experts and panel discussions to promote the understanding of residents about IR. The event will be held online and sufficient measures will be taken against infectious diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event is expected to be scheduled for December and will be broadcast live online to allow residents to watch despite Covid-19 measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Yokohama City IR Promotion Department, it will include lectures and panel discussions by domestic and overseas experts, mainly regarding concerns such as problem gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yokohama city has announced an event to discuss its integrated resort bid and promote the project to residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Yokohama City is organizing a public symposium to address resident concerns and promote its Integrated Resort (IR) bid, aiming to secure one of Japan's three forthcoming casino resort licenses. The event, scheduled for December, will feature experts discussing issues such as problem gambling, and will be broadcast online to ensure broad public access.","focusai_entities":"Yokohama City, Yokohama City IR Promotion Department","focusai_location":"Japan, Yokohama","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IR Bid Public Acceptance?","query":"What specific metrics or indicators will Yokohama City use to gauge the success of this public symposium in mitigating resident opposition to the IR bid?"},{"label":"Problem Gambling Mitigation?","query":"Beyond public discussion, what concrete responsible gambling frameworks and social impact mitigation strategies are being proposed by Yokohama City to address concerns regarding problem gambling within the IR project?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,161,16338,158],"tags":[12436,14017,470,225,909],"class_list":["post-10733","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-slider-home","tag-casinos","tag-integrated-resort","tag-japan","tag-legislation","tag-yokohama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10733","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=10733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10737,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10733\/revisions\/10737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}