Eight candidates have been confirmed for Yokohama\u2019s mayoral elections. Only two are in favour of developing an integrated resort in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Japan.- <\/strong>Out of the eight candidates confirmed for Yokohama’s mayoral elections on August 22, only two are in favour of an integrated resort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to local media reports, Yokohama\u2019s current\u00a0pro-IR mayor<\/a>\u00a0Fumiko Hayashi\u00a0<\/strong>has a good chance of winning. However, due to a large amount of opposition to an IR,\u00a0she’s unlikely to win by a large majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other pro-IR candidate is Mineyuki Fukuda, a former Cabinet Office vice-minister who resigned from the Liberal Democratic Party to join the Party of Hope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As for anti-IR candidates, there is\u00a0Hachiro Okonogi<\/a>, who is supported by Yoshihide Suga, Japan\u2019s prime minister, who has encouraged the\u00a0Liberal Democratic Party<\/a>\u00a0to support him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Takeharu Yamanaka<\/strong>, a professor at Yokohama City University, has been chosen as\u00a0the candidate to represent the CDPJ<\/a>. He\u2019s known to disagree with the development of an integrated resort, arguing that it could cause issues with gambling addiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other candidates include\u00a0Masataka Ota<\/a>,\u00a0Akiko Fujimura<\/a>\u00a0and Yoshiyuki Tsubokura. The first is 75 years old and a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party. He has been elected to the\u00a0Yokohama City Council for 11 four-year periods<\/strong>\u00a0since the 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eight candidates have been confirmed for Yokohama\u2019s mayoral elections. Only two are in favour of developing an integrated resort in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"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":"Yokohama's upcoming mayoral elections feature eight candidates, with only two supporting the development of an Integrated Resort (IR). The incumbent pro-IR mayor, Fumiko Hayashi, faces significant opposition, indicating a potentially narrow victory, while other prominent candidates are staunchly anti-IR, influencing the future of gaming vertical expansion in Japan.","focusai_entities":"Fumiko Hayashi, Mineyuki Fukuda, Hachiro Okonogi, Yoshihide Suga, Takeharu Yamanaka, Masataka Ota, Akiko Fujimura, Yoshiyuki Tsubokura, Liberal Democratic Party, Party of Hope, CDPJ, Yokohama City University, Cabinet Office","focusai_location":"Yokohama, Japan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (1.0), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IR Policy Impact","query":"What are the specific implications for the timeline and regulatory framework of Yokohama's Integrated Resort development should Mayor Hayashi secure a narrow victory amidst strong anti-IR sentiment?"},{"label":"Candidate Stance Analysis","query":"How might the differing stances of pro- and anti-IR candidates, particularly regarding gambling addiction concerns, shape the governance frameworks and social responsibility mandates for any potential Yokohama IR?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,154,158],"tags":[23632],"class_list":["post-21271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legislation-news","category-slider-home","tag-integrated-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21271","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=21271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21320,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21271\/revisions\/21320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}