{"id":339,"date":"2019-10-21T21:27:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T21:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=339"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:19:22","slug":"japans-casino-regulatory-body-to-be-established-in-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japans-casino-regulatory-body-to-be-established-in-january-2020","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Casino regulatory body to be established in January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The government announced that Japan\u2019s casino regulatory body, the Casino Administration Committee, will be established on January 7, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- The Japanese government\nhas promised that its IR industry will have the most stringent casino\nregulations in the world and the Casino Administration Committee will have full\nreview and regulatory powers to ensure this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While, the committee will oversee casino licensing and operations as an external bureau of the cabinet. It will also be responsible for administrative procedures such as revoking licenses in case of violations to the law. Moreover, the committee chair and its four members, will likely require approval of the diet. Also, members will serve terms of five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, the licensing procedure will include strict background checks for key personnel. Nevada and other leading casino jurisdictions will serve as a reference point for how these background investigations will be conducted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally, the plan was to establish the committee by 1 July 2019, however, it was delayed at the time for a variety of reasons,<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/japan-ir-advocates-question-opinion-polls\"><em><strong> including societal concerns about increased problem gambling.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the <em><strong>Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong>announced that the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/japan-ir-plan\"><strong>second public comment will summarized in mid-November<\/strong><\/a><\/em> and the Basic Policy drafted in January 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government announced that Japan\u2019s casino regulatory body, the Casino Administration Committee, will be established on January 7, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Japan's government has announced the establishment of the Casino Administration Committee on January 7, 2020, as an external bureau of the cabinet. This body will possess full review and regulatory powers, including stringent licensing, background checks, and license revocation, aiming to implement the world's most rigorous casino regulations. The committee's formation was delayed from its original July 2019 target due to societal concerns regarding problem gambling.","focusai_entities":"Casino Administration Committee, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Diet","focusai_location":"Japan, Nevada","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Nevada Background Check Impact?","query":"What specific aspects of Nevada's regulatory framework will be adopted for background checks, and how might this impact the timeline for key personnel approvals in Japan's IR market?"},{"label":"Problem Gambling Measures?","query":"Given the delay due to 'societal concerns about increased problem gambling,' what specific responsible gambling measures are anticipated to be integrated into the Casino Administration Committee's oversight mandate?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,16338,156],"tags":[96,29,470,337],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-east-asia-news","category-regulation-news","tag-asia","tag-casino","tag-japan","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","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\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008749,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/777008749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}