{"id":13063,"date":"2021-01-06T09:03:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T09:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=13063"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:56:09","slug":"three-new-potential-partners-emerge-for-nagasaki-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/three-new-potential-partners-emerge-for-nagasaki-ir","title":{"rendered":"Three new potential partners emerge for Nagasaki IR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Request for Proposal proceedings in the city will get underway tomorrow, 7 January 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japan.- Three new last minute contenders have emerged for the Request for Proposal process in Negasaki, which gets underway tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Japanese city will initiate the process to develop its bid for one of the three integrated resort (IR) licences the central government will issue in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until now, there were four known contenders for the RFP process: Oshidori International Holdings, Casinos Austria, Pixel Companyz along Groupe Partouche, and a consortium of Get Nice Holdings and Current Corp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in December 2020 the local authorities said they were in <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/nagasaki-seeks-more-potential-ir-partners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">communications with casino operators<\/a><\/em><\/strong> that did not take part in its original RFP process, with a view to increasing the number of contenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now the Nagasaki Shimbun informed there will be three additional potential partners participating in the process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The names of the companies were not revealed, but media reports indicated they consist of an Asian holding and  two US-based firms with ongoing operations in Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proceedings will begin on 7 January 7, 2021, according to IAG, and bids can be placed from October of the current year until April 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Request for Proposal proceedings in the city will get underway tomorrow, 7 January 2021.<\/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":"Nagasaki's Integrated Resort (IR) Request for Proposal (RFP) process is commencing with three new, unrevealed contenders joining the existing four. This intensifies competition for one of Japan's three forthcoming IR licenses, signaling increased interest from global gaming operators in this high-potential market. The bidding window extends from October 2021 to April 2022.","focusai_entities":"Oshidori International Holdings, Casinos Austria, Pixel Companyz, Groupe Partouche, Get Nice Holdings, Current Corp., Nagasaki Shimbun, IAG","focusai_location":"Japan, Nagasaki","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"New Contenders Impact","query":"How might the emergence of three additional, unrevealed contenders alter the competitive dynamics and valuation metrics for the existing bidders in Nagasaki's IR RFP process?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Nuances","query":"What specific regulatory compliance and governance framework nuances are expected to differentiate the Japanese IR licensing process from other established global gaming jurisdictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[23632,23907,1534],"class_list":["post-13063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-integrated-resorts","tag-land-based-casino","tag-nagasaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13063","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=13063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13073,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13063\/revisions\/13073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}