{"id":5443,"date":"2020-04-09T02:33:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T02:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=5443"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:16:13","slug":"horse-racing-japan-spectators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/horse-racing-japan-spectators","title":{"rendered":"Japan: Horse racing continues behind closed doors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The decision comes after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared a state of emergency as the country steps up its fight against Covid-19.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- The Japan Racing Association (JRA) has confirmed that races will continue to take place during the Coronavirus outbreak, but behind closed doors and with no spectators present.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision was taken after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/shinzo-abe-state-of-emergency-japan\">declared a state of emergency<\/a><\/em><\/strong> as the country steps up its fight against the deadly virus.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February, the Japan Racing Association <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-banned-spectators-races\">banned spectators<\/a><\/em><\/strong> from all race meetings in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also temporarily stopped the sale of betting tickets and payouts on race days as well as on weekdays at JRA racecourses and betting facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bettors are being advised to place wagers via telephone or online banking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision comes after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared a state of emergency as the country steps up its fight against Covid-19.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Japan Racing Association (JRA) will continue horse races behind closed doors in Japan following a state of emergency declaration, shifting all betting to online and telephone channels. This decision impacts traditional retail betting operations and accelerates digital adoption within the racing vertical.","focusai_entities":"Japan Racing Association (JRA), Shinzo Abe","focusai_location":"Japan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.8), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) impact of this forced channel shift from retail to online\/telephone wagering for the JRA?"},{"label":"AML\/KYC Protocols","query":"How will the Japan Racing Association enhance its Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) protocols to manage the anticipated surge in online account registrations and transaction volumes?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,16338,155],"tags":[7299,4256,470],"class_list":["post-5443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-east-asia-news","category-sports-betting-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-horse-racing","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443","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=5443"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5485,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions\/5485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}