{"id":2432,"date":"2020-01-17T08:45:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T08:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:50:41","slug":"wakayama-resort-bribe-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wakayama-resort-bribe-scandal","title":{"rendered":"Wakayama Governor says  bribe scandal will not affect IR plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Governor Nisaka says the scandal won\u2019t impact Wakayama\u2019s IR plans <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japan.- After Japan\u2019s Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshihide Suga, said that the bribery case involving Chinese online gaming firm 500.com <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/bribe-scandal-japan-resorts\">will not impact the IR schedule<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Governor Yoshinobu Nisaka of Wakayama Prefecture has also tried to calm the storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nisaka confirmed that the scandal won\u2019t have consequences on Wakayama\u2019s IR plans and that there has been no connection between the Chinese company and its proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf there was a similar incident involving public construction, would you stop all construction in its tracks?\u201d, he answered when the media asked about the bribe scandal. \u201cThere will likely be no delay,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are a lot of cities looking to gain approval for the construction of one of three IRs in the country. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the prefectures of Hokkaido, Nagasaki, Osaka, Wakayama have shown interest. As have cities such as Chiba, Nagoya, Osaka and Yokohama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government will authorize a maximum of three locations and local authorities that want to <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-casinos-proposals\">present proposals<\/a><\/em><\/strong> for integrated resort licences can do so from January 4 through July 30, 2021.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Nisaka says the scandal won\u2019t impact Wakayama\u2019s IR plans<\/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":"Governor Nisaka of Wakayama Prefecture and Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga have affirmed that a bribery scandal involving Chinese online gaming firm 500.com will not impede Japan's Integrated Resort (IR) development schedule or Wakayama's specific proposals. Multiple prefectures and cities are vying for one of the three authorized IR licenses, with the application window set for January 4 to July 30, 2021.","focusai_entities":"500.com, Yoshihide Suga, Yoshinobu Nisaka, Tokyo Metropolitan Government","focusai_location":"Japan, Wakayama, Hokkaido, Nagasaki, Osaka, Tokyo, Chiba, Nagoya, Yokohama","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IR Governance Safeguards","query":"What specific enhanced due diligence protocols or governance frameworks will the Japanese government implement to mitigate future corruption risks within the IR licensing and operational phases, following the 500.com scandal?"},{"label":"IR Competitive Dynamics","query":"With the confirmed IR application window and political assurances, what are the anticipated competitive dynamics among the vying prefectures and cities, and how might this influence operator consortium formations?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16338],"tags":[5849,29,5343,473,470,2131,6427],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-bribe","tag-casino","tag-corruption","tag-ir","tag-japan","tag-resort","tag-wakayama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","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=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20019,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/20019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}