{"id":1499,"date":"2019-12-11T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:29:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:29:41","slug":"yokohama-resort-wynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/yokohama-resort-wynn","title":{"rendered":"Wynn Resorts focus in Yokohama IR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company will be opening a new office on the 18th floor of Yokohama Landmark Tower within the city\u2019s Minato Mirai<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japan.- After <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wynn-resorts-osaka-casino\">dropping Osaka<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Wynn Resorts has declared that its IR licensing efforts will be focus in Yokohama, one of the three candidates to host a resort in Japan. In addition, the company will be opening a new office in the major port city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since Japan announced that will give <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-casinos-proposals\">3 IR licences<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in 2021, Wynn Resorts had expressed its interest in bidding for a major urban resort. It was one of the seven entities involved in Osaka\u2019s request-for-concept (RFC) phase&nbsp; that began in late April but last October they confirmed that Osaka was no longer an objective. The last days, the company informed its new interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have been carefully investigating and studying candidate sites all over Japan. Yokohama already has many attractive tourist facilities, and its MICE facilities have a high potential. We think it is a place where tourists can base their stays in Japan,\u201d said CEO Matt Maddox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the race for an IR in Yokohama has a lot of competitors. Melco Resorts &amp; Entertainment already declared its \u201cYokohama First\u201d policy and intention to open a local office in September. Las Vegas Sands also indicated in October that Yokohama had become the main focus of its attention in Japan.<br>Japan national government informed that they won\u2019t accept<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-casinos-proposals\"> <em>IR certification applications until January 2021<\/em><\/a> and the three locations will be decided in the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company will be opening a new office on the 18th floor of Yokohama Landmark Tower within the city\u2019s Minato Mirai<\/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":"Wynn Resorts is strategically shifting its Integrated Resort (IR) licensing focus in Japan to Yokohama, establishing a new office in the city's Landmark Tower. This move follows their withdrawal from the Osaka bid, positioning them against strong competitors like Melco Resorts & Entertainment and Las Vegas Sands for one of Japan's three forthcoming IR licenses. The national government is expected to decide on the locations by year-end, with applications opening in January 2021.","focusai_entities":"Wynn Resorts, Melco Resorts & Entertainment, Las Vegas Sands, Matt Maddox, Japan national government","focusai_location":"Yokohama, Japan, Osaka, Minato Mirai","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.75), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Yokohama IR Timeline","query":"What specific regulatory milestones and decision points remain for the Yokohama IR selection process, and how might the national government's timeline impact the competitive strategies of bidding entities?"},{"label":"Competitive Landscape Analysis","query":"Beyond the stated intentions, what are the distinct competitive advantages or strategic differentiators each major bidder (Wynn, Melco, LVS) is leveraging in their Yokohama IR proposals, particularly concerning MICE integration and local economic contribution?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16338,158],"tags":[96,473,470,707,2131,708,909],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-asia","tag-ir","tag-japan","tag-osaka","tag-resort","tag-wynn","tag-yokohama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","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=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}