{"id":6016,"date":"2020-04-28T11:39:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T11:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=6016"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:41:00","slug":"tokyo-ir-bid-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tokyo-ir-bid-japan","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo likely to join race for IR licence in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Global Market Advisors says it is a case of it not when the city will join the likes of Osaka and Yokohama in bidding for an IR licence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- Tokyo is likely to announce its intentions to secure one of Japan\u2019s three integrated resorts (IR) licences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan&#8217;s capital will join Osaka, Yokohama, Nagasaki and Wakayama in making a bid to be a destination for one of the new IRs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to analysts at\u00a0Global Market Advisors<em>\u00a0<\/em>(GMA) in their latest research brief on the Japan IR opportunity, the Tokyo government does not want to miss the opportunity to bid for a casino opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said: &#8220;Regarding the perceived crown prize of Tokyo, GMA has long stated that it is not a matter of if, but when, they will announce that they will participate in the process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Such an announcement could occur by the end of this summer following the Governor\u2019s reelection.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, GMA believes that a Tokyo bid could cause a knock-on effect to other bidders to change their approach to winning an IR opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The addition of Tokyo could cause several operators and prefectures to potentially rethink their strategy.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Market Advisors says it is a case of it not when the city will join the likes of Osaka and Yokohama in bidding for an IR licence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Global Market Advisors (GMA) anticipates Tokyo will imminently announce its bid for one of Japan's three Integrated Resort (IR) licenses, potentially following the Governor's reelection. This move would position Tokyo alongside other major cities like Osaka and Yokohama in the competitive IR development landscape. GMA suggests Tokyo's entry could compel existing prefectures and operators to re-evaluate their current bidding strategies.","focusai_entities":"Global Market Advisors, GMA","focusai_location":"Japan, Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Wakayama","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.85), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Tokyo IR Bid Impact","query":"How might Tokyo's potential entry into the IR bidding process alter the financial viability and strategic partnerships of existing prefectural bids, particularly for Osaka and Yokohama?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Adaptations","query":"What specific adaptations to Japan's IR regulatory and governance frameworks might be necessitated by the inclusion of a major metropolitan area like Tokyo in the licensing competition?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,161,16338,158],"tags":[29,14017,473,470,14999],"class_list":["post-6016","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-integrated-resort","tag-ir","tag-japan","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016","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=6016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6022,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016\/revisions\/6022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}