{"id":17311,"date":"2021-04-28T15:27:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T15:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=17311"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:00:42","slug":"yokohama-anti-ir-parties-seek-single-mayoral-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/yokohama-anti-ir-parties-seek-single-mayoral-candidate","title":{"rendered":"Yokohama anti-IR parties seek single mayoral candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is still seeking a single anti-IR candidate to run for the Yokohama mayoral elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Japan.- With Yokohama’s mayoral elections<\/strong> to be held on Sunday August 22, the opposition is still seeking a unified anti-IR candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While current pro-IR mayor Fumiko Hayashi<\/a> has yet to announce whether she will run for a fourth term in office<\/strong>, the biggest opposition party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ), has not yet reached an agreement on a unified anti-IR candidate.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CDPJ initially hoped to select a candidate by the end of March, but could not reach an agreement<\/strong>. The party then set an objective of the end of the Labour Day break<\/strong>, but according to local media, the CDPJ now expects to choose a candidate by the end of May<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second-largest opposition party in the country, the Japan Communist Party<\/strong>, offered to withdraw its independent candidate to give more chances to a single anti-IR candidate<\/strong>, but the CDPJ appears to be unsure about the strategy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, there are currently two independent anti-IR candidates <\/strong>who have launched their respective campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masataka Ota<\/a> is a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party who has expressed his stance against Yokohama participating in a bid for an integrated resort licence<\/strong> many times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there’s Akiko Fujimura<\/a>, the representative director of an animal welfare group, who has stated that if she wins the election, she will order the immediate cancellation of the city\u2019s IR project<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is still seeking a single anti-IR candidate to run for the Yokohama mayoral elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is struggling to unify an anti-Integrated Resort (IR) candidate for the upcoming Yokohama mayoral elections, despite the Japan Communist Party offering to withdraw its candidate. This political disunity among the opposition could significantly impact the city's IR bid, with current pro-IR mayor Fumiko Hayashi yet to confirm her re-election campaign. The outcome of this election is pivotal for the future of IR development in Yokohama.","focusai_entities":"Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Japan Communist Party, Fumiko Hayashi, Masataka Ota, Akiko Fujimura","focusai_location":"Japan, Yokohama","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.75), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IR Project Timeline?","query":"How might the ongoing political disunity among anti-IR factions in Yokohama impact the projected timeline and feasibility of the city's Integrated Resort development bid?"},{"label":"Operator Bid Strategy?","query":"What adjustments might potential IR operators need to make to their bid strategies given the heightened political uncertainty and the lack of a unified opposition candidate in Yokohama?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,154],"tags":[23632],"class_list":["post-17311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legislation-news","tag-integrated-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17311","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=17311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17339,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17311\/revisions\/17339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}