{"id":3768,"date":"2020-02-24T12:55:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T12:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:37:16","slug":"yokohama-ir-briefings-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/yokohama-ir-briefings-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Yokohama postpones IR briefings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The decision was taken to avoid large number of people gathering in confined spaces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?s=yokohama\">Yokohama<\/a><\/em><\/strong> has postponed resident briefings on its planned IR bid in order to prevent the spread of the deadly Coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city has already held briefings in 12 of Yokohama\u2019s 18 wards with the final six briefings set to take place over the coming days and weeks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision to postpone the briefings was taken to avoid gathering large numbers of people in small spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the last briefing, held on 14 February, there was a shortage of seats such was the number of people in attendance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that meeting, the Yokohama City Council decided that there will be a period of public consultation on the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/yokohama-policy-resort\">draft policy<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, starting from March 6 with the aim of announcing its IR policy in June.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision was taken to avoid large number of people gathering in confined spaces.<\/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":"Yokohama has postponed resident briefings for its planned Integrated Resort (IR) bid to mitigate the spread of the Coronavirus, impacting the public consultation timeline. This delay affects the final six briefings, with a public consultation on the draft policy still slated for March 6 and the IR policy announcement targeted for June.","focusai_entities":"Yokohama City Council","focusai_location":"Japan, Yokohama","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.75), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on IR Timeline?","query":"What is the projected impact of these public consultation delays on Yokohama's overall IR policy announcement and subsequent licensing application timeline, and how might this affect other competing IR bids in Japan?"},{"label":"Operator Strategy Adjustments?","query":"How are prospective B2C casino operators adjusting their market entry strategies and capital deployment plans in response to the increased uncertainty surrounding the Yokohama IR bid process?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16338,158],"tags":[7299,473,470,909],"class_list":["post-3768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-coronavirus","tag-ir","tag-japan","tag-yokohama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768","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=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3815,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions\/3815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}