Government to continue to push ahead with plans to build integrated resorts at three locations across the country, despite opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Japan.- The bribe scandal<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is not the only factor currently slowing Japan’s bid to build integrated resorts at three locations across the country with some opposition parties also causing headaches.<\/a><\/em><\/strong> Despite this, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has confirmed he will push forward with plans to build the casino resorts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At the plenary session of the country\u2019s parliament, Abe said the government would go ahead with promoting the establishment of IRs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe government is going to set up the foundation of the tourism nation at full speed in 2020,\u201d Mr Abe said during parliament, according to GGRAsia. He also said that it will be important for tourism in the country. \u201cThe government is strongly committed to achieving the goal of [receiving] 60 million inbound visitors in 2030.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan; the Democratic party for the People; the Japanese Communist Party; and the Social Democratic Party are the four parties that are pushing a law to repeal the IR Implementation Act as well as the IR Promotion Act. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Government to continue to push ahead with plans to build integrated resorts at three locations across the country, despite opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Japan's government, led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, remains committed to advancing plans for three integrated resorts despite political opposition and a bribe scandal. This initiative is positioned as crucial for achieving the nation's 2030 tourism goals, even as several opposition parties actively seek to repeal the foundational IR legislation.","focusai_entities":"Shinzo Abe, GGRAsia, Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Democratic party for the People, Japanese Communist Party, Social Democratic Party","focusai_location":"Japan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.88), operator_casino (0.98), payments_fraud_aml (0.75), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.92), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IR Act Repeal Impact","query":"What is the probability of the IR Implementation Act or IR Promotion Act being repealed, and what would be the immediate and long-term implications for potential operators and investors in the Japanese market?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Stability","query":"Given the political opposition and past scandals, how robust and stable is the proposed regulatory and governance framework for Japan's integrated resorts expected to be, and what are the key compliance challenges?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16338,158],"tags":[473,470,2131],"class_list":["post-2532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-ir","tag-japan","tag-resort"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532","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=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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