{"id":9854,"date":"2020-09-10T10:51:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T10:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=9854"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:58:21","slug":"japan-opposition-leader-opposes-ir-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-opposition-leader-opposes-ir-project","title":{"rendered":"Japan: opposition leader fights IR project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yukio Edano, leader of a new opposition party, spoke against IRs on a visit to Yokohama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- Yukio Edano, the leader of new opposition party, the Constitutional Democratic Party, has spoken against IR developments in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a visit to Yamashita Pier, one of the sites proposed for Yokohama\u2019s  IR bid, the politician said: \u201cI confirmed the state of the surrounding environment and its distance to neighboring facilities. There is no reason to bring a casino here and to destroy these beautiful views.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edano also had a meeting with Yokohama Harbor Resort Association Chairman Yukio Fujiki, a major opponent to the city&#8217;s IR project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edano added: \u201cThe casino issue is symbolic of the clear confrontational axis between top-down politics and grassroots politics . . . We cannot let matters continue as they have under the Abe administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The comments come after the favourite to replace Shinzo Abe as Japan&#8217;s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, said he <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/favourite-for-japanese-pm-wants-ir-project-to-continue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">supported the IR development policy. <\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yukio Edano, leader of a new opposition party, spoke against IRs on a visit to Yokohama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Yukio Edano, leader of Japan's Constitutional Democratic Party, has publicly opposed Integrated Resort (IR) developments, specifically targeting the proposed Yokohama site. His stance, articulated during a visit to Yamashita Pier and a meeting with a prominent IR opponent, creates political friction against the pro-IR policy supported by potential Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.","focusai_entities":"Yukio Edano, Constitutional Democratic Party, Yokohama Harbor Resort Association, Yukio Fujiki, Shinzo Abe, Yoshihide Suga","focusai_location":"Japan, Yokohama, Yamashita Pier","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IR Licensing Timeline Impact?","query":"What is the potential impact of this heightened political opposition on the projected timeline for IR licensing and development in Japan, particularly for the Yokohama bid?"},{"label":"Operator Bidding Strategy?","query":"How might the Constitutional Democratic Party's stance influence the bidding strategies and risk assessments of international casino operators considering investment in Japan's IR market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,161,16338,154,158],"tags":[473,470,909],"class_list":["post-9854","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-legislation-news","category-slider-home","tag-ir","tag-japan","tag-yokohama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854","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=9854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9870,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854\/revisions\/9870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}