{"id":5917,"date":"2020-04-23T23:47:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T23:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=5917"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:48:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:48:56","slug":"yokohama-public-comments-ir-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/yokohama-public-comments-ir-japan","title":{"rendered":"Record number of public comments on Yokohama IR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authorities received feedback from 5,071 people regarding plans for a casino resort in the city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- Yokohama City has received a record number of public comments on its plans to build an Integrated Resort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan&#8217;s second largest city accepted comments for one month from March 6  regarding for the city\u2019s IR bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yokohama said it received feedback from 5,071 people regarding the casino resort, which far exceeded the previous record of 4,715 public comments on its &#8216;Long-term Vision Plan&#8217; back in 2006. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Friday (April 16), Yokohama Mayor, <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/yokohama-delay-ir-schedule\"><strong><em>Fumiko Hayashi announced that the schedule for the IR bid would be delayed<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by two months due to the <strong><em>spread of Coronavirus in Japan<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, he said: &#8220;Considering the spread of Coronavirus, we should concentrate on the things which are most important.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities received feedback from 5,071 people regarding plans for a casino resort in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2440,"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 has recorded an unprecedented 5,071 public comments concerning its Integrated Resort (IR) bid, significantly surpassing prior public engagement benchmarks. Concurrently, Mayor Fumiko Hayashi announced a two-month deferral of the IR bid schedule, attributing the adjustment to the prevailing Coronavirus pandemic. This development introduces a revised timeline for stakeholders engaged in Japan's nascent casino market.","focusai_entities":"Fumiko Hayashi","focusai_location":"Japan, Yokohama City","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Public Comment Concerns?","query":"What specific concerns or thematic trends were evident within the record 5,071 public comments submitted regarding the Yokohama IR bid?"},{"label":"IR Timeline Impact?","query":"How will this two-month deferral impact the overarching timeline for Japan's national IR selection process, and what are the revised projections for the commencement of IR operations?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,161,16338,158],"tags":[473,470,909],"class_list":["post-5917","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-ir","tag-japan","tag-yokohama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917","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=5917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777016661,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917\/revisions\/777016661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}