With the Japan Casino Regulatory Commission already in place, the authorities in that nation “will for sure look to open up to applications again for the remaining two spots” available for Japanese communities seeking to have an integrated resort (IR) with casino.
That is according to Joji Kokuryo, managing director of Japan-based industry consultancy Bay City Ventures Ltd, in response to an enquiry from GGRAsia about what might happen on Japan’s casino-liberalisation path, now that only Osaka stands as an approved project, currently due to be completed in 2030.
The only other applicant so far, Nagasaki prefecture, learned on Wednesday that its IR District Development Plan had not been approved by the national authorities. The news came via a statement from the Japan Tourism Agency, a body under the country’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
