{"id":12492,"date":"2020-12-08T11:50:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T11:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=12492"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:23:22","slug":"osaka-to-restart-rfp-process-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/osaka-to-restart-rfp-process-in-january","title":{"rendered":"Osaka to restart IR partner selection process in January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Authorities will resume the request-for-proposal process for the city’s IR bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Japan.- Osaka has announced that it will resume the request-for-proposal (RFP) process to find a private partner for its integrated resort bid in January. Authorities will also publish their policy for the IR project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japan is to give three licences for integrated resorts with casinos. Proposals from local government proposals will be received by the national government between October 2021 and April 28, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, the national government published a revised draft of its own IR basic policy, including additional guidelines relating to infectious diseases in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and rules on exchanges between overseas-based casino operators and Japanese government officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authorities will resume the request-for-proposal process for the city’s IR bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12505,"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 announced the resumption of its Request for Proposal (RFP) process in January to select a private partner for its Integrated Resort (IR) bid, aligning with Japan's national plan to issue three IR licenses. The national government will accept local government proposals from October 2021 to April 2022, having recently updated its IR basic policy to include infectious disease guidelines and rules for operator-government interactions.","focusai_entities":"Osaka, Japan","focusai_location":"Japan, Osaka","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.95), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IR Policy Amendments","query":"What specific amendments were made to the national IR basic policy regarding infectious disease protocols and operator-government interactions, and how might these impact the operational and governance frameworks for prospective IR developers?"},{"label":"Competitive Landscape Impact","query":"How does the resumption of Osaka's RFP process, coupled with the national government's proposal submission window, influence the competitive landscape and strategic positioning for major international casino operators eyeing the Japanese market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16338,158],"tags":[29,473,470,707],"class_list":["post-12492","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-casino","tag-ir","tag-japan","tag-osaka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12492","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=12492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12512,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12492\/revisions\/12512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}