{"id":8299,"date":"2020-07-21T21:18:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T21:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=8299"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:28:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:28:47","slug":"japans-ir-policy-no-longer-expected-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japans-ir-policy-no-longer-expected-this-month","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s IR policy no longer expected this month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The criteria for selecting IR licences was expected to be revealed on July 26 but the goverment now says the deadline is not fixed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- Government officials have said they have no specific deadline for drafting of the basic policy for awarding licences to Japan\u2019s proposed integrated resorts (IR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The criteria were expected to be revealed on July 26, but according to the Sankei Shinbun newspaper, the government says it has no legal obligation to meet that deadline and that the policy will be put back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newspaper reported that the parameters and standards for the process through which the central government will grant three IR licences, supposedly next year, have not yet been set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is expected that the delay will be justified by the creation of additional policies regarding Covid-19 and other possible emergencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also thought the policies are being held up to add clearer measures on contact between IR businesses and public officials after the <strong><em><a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japanese-lawmaker-accepted-%c2%a51-million-from-chinese-operator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent scandal<\/a><\/em><\/strong> involving lawmakers accepting payments from potential IR partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For now the national schedule to choose the location for three IRs in Japan next year has not been changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The criteria for selecting IR licences was expected to be revealed on July 26 but the goverment now says the deadline is not fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Japan's government has indefinitely postponed the announcement of its Integrated Resort (IR) licensing criteria, initially expected by July 26. This delay is attributed to the need for additional COVID-19 policies and enhanced governance frameworks regarding interactions between IR businesses and public officials, following a recent scandal. Despite this, the overarching timeline for selecting three IR locations next year remains unchanged.","focusai_entities":"Sankei Shinbun","focusai_location":"Japan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Governance Framework Enhancements?","query":"What specific governance framework enhancements are being considered to address the interactions between IR businesses and public officials in Japan?"},{"label":"Impact on Capital Deployment?","query":"How will this indefinite delay in IR licensing criteria impact the capital expenditure timelines and financial planning for prospective integrated resort operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,156,158],"tags":[473,470],"class_list":["post-8299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","tag-ir","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299","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=8299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8304,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions\/8304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}