Yokohama Harbor Resort Association chairman Yukio Fujiki has launched a new organisation called \u201cYokohama Future Concept Conference\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Japan.- Opponents to Yokohama’s plans to bid to host an integrated resort<\/strong>\u00a0have formed a new organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a090-year-old Yukio Fujiki<\/strong>, chairman of the Yokohama Port Harbor Resort Association and a strong opponent against the\u00a0development of an IR<\/a> has launched an organisation called\u00a0\u201cYokohama Future Concept Conference\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At an inaugural conference, Fujiki criticised Japan’s pro-IR Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, saying he had betrayed people through the IR initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the next event,\u00a0Fujiki hopes to select an anti-IR candidate\u00a0<\/strong>to run for the Yokohama mayoral elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another anti-IR group, the\u00a0Kanagawa Citizens Ombudsman, wants to launch a lawsuit to stop a potential IR development<\/strong>. It says that the proposed Yamashita Wharf location should not be leased to an IR operator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It argues that\u00a0the IR development would harm public welfare<\/strong>\u00a0and wants an audit of the location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The biggest opposition party, the\u00a0Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ)<\/strong>, has not yet reached an agreement on a\u00a0<\/strong>unified anti-IR candidate<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Japan’s second-largest opposition party,\u00a0the Japan Communist Party<\/strong>, has offered to withdraw its candidate to give more chances to a single\u00a0anti-IR candidate<\/strong>, but\u00a0the CDPJ appears to be unsure about the strategy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are currently two independent anti-IR candidates <\/strong>who have launched their respective campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Masataka Ota<\/a>\u00a0is a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party who has expressed his\u00a0stance against Yokohama participating in a bid for an integrated resort licence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n