{"id":15029,"date":"2021-02-22T13:37:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T13:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=15029"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:38:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:38:56","slug":"japan-concerns-over-chinese-gambling-blacklist-impact-for-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-concerns-over-chinese-gambling-blacklist-impact-for-irs","title":{"rendered":"Japan: concerns over Chinese gambling blacklist impact for IRs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>House of Representatives member Kenji Eda warned that China\u2019s gambling blacklist could see tourists banned from travelling to Japan&#8217;s future IRs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- House of Representatives member Kenji Eda has expressed <strong>concern that China&#8217;s blacklist <\/strong>of travel destinations used for gambling could include Japan after the country opens its planned integrated resorts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, it emerged that China&#8217;s Ministry of Culture and Tourism was <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-expands-gambling-blacklist\" target=\"_blank\">drawing up a second selection of overseas gambling destinations<\/a><\/em> <\/strong>to add to its blacklist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Eda, <strong>this decision could have a major impact on Japan\u2019s first integrated resort developments<\/strong> which would rely heavily on wealthy Chinese visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government responded to Eda through a statement saying it was aware of the Chinese government&#8217;s measures but it could not comment for now since<strong> the specific details of Chinese travel blacklist are not yet known<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House of Representatives member Kenji Eda warned that China\u2019s gambling blacklist could see tourists banned from travelling to Japan&#8217;s future IRs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":15032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Japanese House of Representatives member Kenji Eda has raised concerns that China's expanding gambling blacklist could include Japan, significantly impacting the projected revenue and visitation for its nascent Integrated Resort (IR) developments. This potential inclusion, driven by China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism, threatens the critical reliance of Japan's IRs on high-net-worth Chinese patrons. The Japanese government acknowledges China's measures but awaits specific details before commenting further on the geopolitical and economic implications.","focusai_entities":"Kenji Eda, China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism","focusai_location":"Japan, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.98), marketing_crm (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.75), investor_analyst (0.98), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"China Blacklist Impact","query":"What specific economic mitigation strategies are Japanese IR developers and the government considering to offset the potential loss of high-net-worth Chinese visitation?"},{"label":"Regulatory Response","query":"How might the Japanese government's regulatory framework for IRs adapt to geopolitical pressures, particularly concerning international patron sourcing and revenue diversification?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338,158],"tags":[23908,23907],"class_list":["post-15029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-gaming-regulation","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15029","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15029"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15052,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15029\/revisions\/15052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}