was due on July 26<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, and Yokohama planned to announce its own guidelines in late August.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBut since the central government\u2019s policy has been delayed with no new deadline in sight, the mayor said it would be difficult for the city to draw up its own guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She said: \u201cIt would be difficult for the city to finalise its implementation policy, when the government has not yet determine the IR basic policy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The national schedule for granting IR licences has not officially been delayed yet, and applications are supposed to be submitted between January and July of next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With central government not having revealed its basic policy for licences, the mayor says it will be difficult to finish the city\u2019s guidelines by August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8583,"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 confirmed the city cannot finalize its Integrated Resort (IR) bid guidelines due to the central Japanese government's ongoing delay in revealing its basic policy for IR licenses. This regulatory uncertainty impacts the planned August guideline release, though the national application window for IR licenses remains scheduled for January to July of next year.","focusai_entities":"Fumiko Hayashi","focusai_location":"Japan, Yokohama","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.75), operator_casino (0.98), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"National Policy Delay Impact?","query":"What are the specific reasons for the central government's delay in revealing the basic policy for IR licenses, and what is the revised timeline for its publication?"},{"label":"IR Project Timeline Risk?","query":"How does this delay in Yokohama's guidelines impact the overall national IR application schedule, and what are the potential implications for the January-July next year submission window?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[473,470,909],"class_list":["post-8581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-ir","tag-japan","tag-yokohama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581","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=8581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8590,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions\/8590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}