{"id":6488,"date":"2020-05-15T11:11:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T11:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:13:13","slug":"wakayama-ir-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wakayama-ir-japan","title":{"rendered":"Wakayama confirms two interested partners for IR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Suncity Group<strong> <\/strong>and<strong> <\/strong>Clairvest Neem Ventures throw their hat in the ring to build IR should prefecture secure licence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- Wakayama authorities have confirmed that <strong><em>Suncity Group Holdings Japan<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Clairvest Neem Ventures<\/em><\/strong> have declared interest in building an integrated resort (IR) in the prefecture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both organisations qualified for the local government\u2019s request-for-proposal (RFP) process, following a local government review of both companies in the last two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The local authority said it plans to select its IR partner by mid-November. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wakayama&nbsp;will then apply to Japan&#8217;s government to put itself into the running to secure one of three IR licences up for grabs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wakayama is <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-prefectures-daily-news\">one of the 39 prefectures to have had its state of emergency order lifted<\/a><\/em><\/strong> following the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suncity Group and Clairvest Neem Ventures throw their hat in the ring to build IR should prefecture secure licence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Wakayama authorities have confirmed Suncity Group Holdings Japan and Clairvest Neem Ventures as qualified bidders in their Request-for-Proposal (RFP) process for an Integrated Resort (IR). The prefecture aims to select its preferred IR partner by mid-November, subsequently applying to the national government for one of Japan's three available IR licenses.","focusai_entities":"Suncity Group Holdings Japan, Clairvest Neem Ventures, Wakayama authorities, Japan's government","focusai_location":"Japan, Wakayama","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":"Wakayama RFP Criteria?","query":"What are the specific financial, operational, and governance criteria outlined in Wakayama's RFP that Suncity Group and Clairvest Neem Ventures must satisfy for IR partner selection?"},{"label":"National License Impact?","query":"How might Wakayama's IR partner selection influence the competitive landscape and strategic positioning for the remaining national IR licenses in Japan?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,161,16338,158],"tags":[473,470,6427],"class_list":["post-6488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-ir","tag-japan","tag-wakayama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488","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=6488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777007797,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions\/777007797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}