{"id":9190,"date":"2020-08-20T10:52:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T10:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=9190"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:35:03","slug":"yokohama-ir-policy-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/yokohama-ir-policy-delayed","title":{"rendered":"Yokohama IR policy delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to Yokohama&#8217;s Mayor, the delay comes from the national government, that has not yet delivered its IR policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- The city of Yokohama has confirmed it does not expet to be in a position to reveal its integrated resorts implementation policy for some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city&#8217;s Mayor made the announcement confirming a delay to the request for proposal process to choose a private sector partner for its IR bid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities had previously scheduled the launch of the IR implementation policy and request for proposal requirements for August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Mayor Fumiko Hayashi, Yokohama has had to postpone its policy because the national government had not yet issued its own basic policy on IRs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Hayashi said:\u00a0\u201cThe city cannot make public its IR implementation policy, under conditions where the [national] government does not announce the basic policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe city will keep watching carefully the government initiatives. At this moment, the city has no knowledge about when the\u00a0[national]\u00a0government will announce the\u00a0basic\u00a0policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Yokohama&#8217;s Mayor, the delay comes from the national government, that has not yet delivered its IR policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9193,"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 has confirmed a delay in revealing its Integrated Resort (IR) implementation policy and the associated Request for Proposal (RFP) process. This postponement is attributed to the national government's failure to issue its basic IR policy, creating uncertainty regarding the timeline for private sector partner selection.","focusai_entities":"Yokohama, Fumiko Hayashi","focusai_location":"Japan, Yokohama","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"National Policy Impact","query":"What specific elements of the national government's basic IR policy are critical for Yokohama to finalize its implementation strategy and RFP requirements?"},{"label":"Revised IR Timeline","query":"How might this delay in Yokohama's IR policy impact the overall timeline for other potential IR developments across Japan, and what are the revised projections for market launch?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,16338,154,158],"tags":[470,225,909],"class_list":["post-9190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-east-asia-news","category-legislation-news","category-slider-home","tag-japan","tag-legislation","tag-yokohama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190","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=9190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9198,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions\/9198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}