{"id":4785,"date":"2020-03-24T11:27:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T11:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=4785"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:50:23","slug":"sasebo-city-ir-promotion-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sasebo-city-ir-promotion-office","title":{"rendered":"Nagasaki announced a new IR Promotion Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The RFP process for a casino resort will be selected in Autumn 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Japan.- Nagasaki prefecture<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is working hard in a possible IR in Sasebo City and announced the establishment of a new IR Promotion Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IR Promotion Office will be directed by Ryuji Hori, deputy general of planning, and will start working on April 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe reason for the establishment of this new office is so the procedures necessary as a local government for an IR bid can be implemented swiftly and correctly, and it will be within the planning department with a similar level of authority,\u201d said a spokesperson to Inside Asia Gaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThree additional staff members will be added to the five who are already responsible for IR and they will all be part of the policy management office of the planning department,\u201d added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RFP process<\/a><\/em><\/strong> for a casino resort will be selected in Autumn 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IR site area is 31 hectares within the Huis Ten Bosch theme park, and the adjacent port and public harbour areas are also being taken into consideration. It will have a hall for 12,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three companies have already publicly confirmed their participation in the RFP phase: Oshidori International Holdings Ltd, a Hong Kong-listed investment holding firm; Japan\u2019s Current Corp; and Casinos Austria International Holding GmbH.
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The RFP process for a casino resort will be selected in Autumn 2020.<\/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":"Nagasaki Prefecture has established an IR Promotion Office in Sasebo City, Japan, to streamline its Integrated Resort bid process, increasing dedicated staff. This development precedes the Autumn 2020 RFP selection for a 31-hectare site, with Oshidori International Holdings, Current Corp, and Casinos Austria International already confirming participation.","focusai_entities":"Nagasaki prefecture, Ryuji Hori, Inside Asia Gaming, Oshidori International Holdings Ltd, Current Corp, Casinos Austria International Holding GmbH","focusai_location":"Japan, Nagasaki, Sasebo City, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Nagasaki IR Governance?","query":"What specific governance frameworks is Nagasaki Prefecture implementing to ensure transparency and integrity in the IR selection process, particularly concerning B2B\/B2C licensing and regulatory compliance?"},{"label":"Sasebo IR Market Impact?","query":"What are the projected GGR and NGR potentials for an IR in Sasebo City, considering the proposed scale, regional market dynamics, and the competitive landscape with confirmed bidders?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16338],"tags":[29,473,470,1534,2131],"class_list":["post-4785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-casino","tag-ir","tag-japan","tag-nagasaki","tag-resort"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785","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=4785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4822,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions\/4822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}