{"id":5652,"date":"2020-04-16T10:49:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T10:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:03:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:03:40","slug":"yokohama-delay-ir-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/yokohama-delay-ir-schedule","title":{"rendered":"Yokohama mayor announces a two-month IR delay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cConsidering the spread of the novel coronavirus, we should concentrate on the things which are most important,\u201d Mayor Hayashi explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi confirmed two days ago that the Covid-19 outbreak <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/yokohama-resort-bid-schedule\">would not change the schedule<\/a><\/em><\/strong> of the prefecture\u2019s bid to develop an IR, she has now changed her mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, Hayashi announced a two-month delay to the city\u2019s IR development schedule and will now present its plan in August.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cConsidering the spread of Coronavirus, we should concentrate on the things which are most important,\u201d Mayor Hayashi explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March, the Yokohama city council approved a <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/yokohama-budget-casino\">budget<\/a><\/em><\/strong> of JPY 1.74 billion for the fiscal year 2020, of which JPY 400 million (\u20ac3.3million) was earmarked for IR promotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cConsidering the spread of the novel coronavirus, we should concentrate on the things which are most important,\u201d Mayor Hayashi explained.<\/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 Mayor Fumiko Hayashi has announced a two-month delay to the city's Integrated Resort (IR) development schedule, pushing the plan presentation to August, citing the novel coronavirus outbreak. This reverses an earlier stance that the pandemic would not alter the bid timeline. The city had previously allocated JPY 400 million for IR promotion in its 2020 fiscal year budget.","focusai_entities":"Fumiko Hayashi","focusai_location":"Japan, Yokohama","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on IR Bidding?","query":"How will this two-month delay in Yokohama's IR development schedule affect the competitive landscape and bid submission strategies for prospective B2C operators?"},{"label":"Financial Implications?","query":"What are the potential financial implications for Yokohama's allocated JPY 400 million IR promotion budget given the revised timeline and ongoing pandemic uncertainties?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,161,16338,158],"tags":[29,7299,473,470,2131,909],"class_list":["post-5652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","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\/5652","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=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5678,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions\/5678"}],"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=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}