has been growing<\/a>. One of those against it is 90-year-old Yukio Fujiki, chairman of the Yokohama Port Harbor Resort Association. He has said: \u201cI will never allow a casino.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nYokohama city\u2019s mayor, Fumiko Hayashi stated: \u201cOver 200,000 signatures have been collected and I am very aware that our residents are very concerned and worried about developing an IR.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The validity of the signatures will now be examined by the elections officer then Mayor Hayashi will be asked to enact a referendum ordinance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Citizens of Yokohama have collected over 200,000 signatures to demand a referendum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11901,"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 citizens have submitted a petition with over 200,000 signatures, significantly exceeding the required threshold, to demand a referendum on the city's Integrated Resort (IR) bid. This strong local opposition, voiced by groups and prominent figures, places considerable pressure on Mayor Fumiko Hayashi and the city council to consider a public vote on the proposed development. The validity of these signatures will now be verified, potentially leading to the enactment of a referendum ordinance.","focusai_entities":"Setsu Kobayashi, Yokohama Citizens\u2019 Group to Decide on a Casino, Yukio Fujiki, Yokohama Port Harbor Resort Association, Fumiko Hayashi","focusai_location":"Japan, Yokohama","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.85), compliance_legal (0.75), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Mayor's Referendum Authority?","query":"What are the legal implications if Mayor Hayashi declines to enact a referendum ordinance despite the validated signatures, and what recourse do citizens have?"},{"label":"Impact on Japan IR Timelines?","query":"How might this local opposition in Yokohama influence the IR development timelines and strategies for other potential Japanese host cities and their respective bids?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16338,158],"tags":[470,225,909],"class_list":["post-11899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-japan","tag-legislation","tag-yokohama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11899","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=11899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11903,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11899\/revisions\/11903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}