{"id":31605,"date":"2022-07-11T03:47:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T06:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=31605"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:00:00","slug":"osaka-pro-ir-parties-win-parliamentary-seats-in-japans-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/osaka-pro-ir-parties-win-parliamentary-seats-in-japans-elections","title":{"rendered":"Osaka: pro-IR parties win parliamentary seats in Japan\u2019s elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Japan Restoration Party has won two seats while the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its national-level coalition partner Komeito each won one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Japan.- Election results in Japan bode well for Osaka’s integrated resort plans. Pro-IR parties won all four House of Councillors seats up for election in Osaka. The Japan’s Restoration Party won two seats and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its national coalition partner Komeito each won one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Japan Restoration Party also maintains a majority of seats in the Osaka prefectural assembly. Some of the losing candidates had raised concerns about Osaka’s IR plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Osaka\u2019s operator partner,\u00a0the MGM-Orix consortium<\/a>, has proposed to invest\u00a0JPY1tn (US$9.1bn)<\/strong>\u00a0in the planned IR. The proposed site is an artificial island: Dream Island, in Osaka Bay. The project has a target date of opening in 2029.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However,\u00a0an anti-IR group<\/a>\u00a0claims it has passed the required minimum 2 per cent of voter signatures necessary to seek a referendum on the matter. The Osaka Prefectural Election Administration Commission has verified at least 146,472 of\u00a0208,552 signatures<\/strong>\u00a0submitted on June 6. It is therefore expected that a draft ordinance will be presented in the prefectural assembly with the government\u2019s opinion on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of all the 125 of 248 upper-house seats up for election on Sunday, the Liberal Democratic Party won 63; Komeito won 13; the Constitutional Democratic Party 17; the Japan Restoration Party 12; the Democratic Party for the People five; the Japanese Communist Party four; Reiwa Shinsengumi three and other tickets eight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Japan Restoration Party has won two seats while the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its national-level coalition partner Komeito each won one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Pro-Integrated Resort (IR) parties secured all four House of Councillors seats in Osaka, bolstering the prospects for the MGM-Orix consortium's JPY1tn IR project on Dream Island. Despite this political support, an anti-IR group has gathered sufficient signatures to potentially trigger a prefectural referendum, introducing a significant governance risk to the 2029 target opening.","focusai_entities":"Japan Restoration Party, Liberal Democratic Party, Komeito, MGM-Orix consortium, Constitutional Democratic Party, Democratic Party for the People, Japanese Communist Party, Reiwa Shinsengumi, Osaka Prefectural Election Administration Commission","focusai_location":"Japan, Osaka, Dream Island","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.85), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Referendum Impact Analysis","query":"What specific governance frameworks and legal precedents would a prefectural referendum in Osaka invoke, and what is the projected timeline for resolution, considering the MGM-Orix consortium's 2029 target?"},{"label":"IR Project Risk Assessment","query":"How do the recent election results and the potential for a referendum alter the risk profile and capital expenditure projections for the MGM-Orix JPY1tn integrated resort project on Dream Island?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23911,23632],"class_list":["post-31605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-integrated-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31605","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=31605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31638,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31605\/revisions\/31638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}