{"id":4633,"date":"2020-03-19T13:35:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=4633"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:57:03","slug":"yokohama-ir-operators-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/yokohama-ir-operators-casino","title":{"rendered":"Yokohama confident in IR bid despite Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Mayor expects operators will continue to show interest in partnering with the city to launch an integrated resort. <\/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> officials have said they expect the impact of the Coronavirus to be limited on its efforts to identify an operator partner for a potential integrated resort in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere has been a real overlap, but the spread will subside within a certain period of time,\u201d Yokohama City Mayor, Fumiko Hayashi, said during a press conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mayor expects that operators will continue showing interest in the\u00a0 IR development even though the economy looks set to decline this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI believe that operators will make rational decisions. Even if some back out, that doesn\u2019t mean there will be no interest,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is information that there will be a supplementary budget after the national government\u2019s budget for the new fiscal year. If that\u2019s the case, the city will also take measures to draw up the necessary supplementary budget,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yokohama city already <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/yokohama-ir-implementation-draft-resort\">published a draft<\/a><\/em><\/strong> of its IR implementation policy, focussing on problem gambling and security. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final implementation policy is scheduled to be published in June and will also include the criteria thatIR operators must include in their bids.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor expects operators will continue to show interest in partnering with the city to launch an integrated resort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2814,"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 City officials, led by Mayor Fumiko Hayashi, anticipate sustained operator interest in the city's Integrated Resort (IR) development, despite potential economic headwinds from the Coronavirus pandemic. The city plans to finalize its IR implementation policy by June, detailing criteria for operator bids with a strong emphasis on problem gambling and security.","focusai_entities":"Fumiko Hayashi, Yokohama City, national government","focusai_location":"Japan, Yokohama","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.85), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IR Policy Details","query":"What specific governance frameworks and responsible gambling protocols are Yokohama City expected to mandate within its final IR implementation policy, and how might these impact operator GGR projections?"},{"label":"Economic Impact","query":"How might the national government's proposed supplementary budget directly mitigate the economic impact of the Coronavirus on potential IR development financing and operator investment appetite?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16338],"tags":[29,7299,473,470,2131,909],"class_list":["post-4633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-casino","tag-coronavirus","tag-ir","tag-japan","tag-resort","tag-yokohama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633","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=4633"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4679,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions\/4679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}