Osaka and Nagasaki are two Japanese communities claiming rights to host casinos and integrated resorts (IRs), respectively, and have announced that they are taking action locally to ensure that their plans comply with Japan’s Basic Law on Gambling Addiction. The law, which went into effect in October 2018 after being passed by Congress in July that year, is part of safety measures demanded by national authorities as part of Japan’s casino business liberalization. 파칭코사이트인포
The Osaka prefectural government held its first meeting on Wednesday of an organization known as the “Gambling Addiction Countermeasures Headquarters.”
Osaka has selected commercial partners, including U.S.-based casino operator MGM Resorts International, for a casino resort worth 1.08 billion yen ($8.1 billion at the current exchange rate).
Osaka Addiction Prevention Headquarters is led by Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura and is helped by other officials with relevant knowledge. The organization was established based on Osaka’s own gambling addiction measures ordinance.
Wednesday’s agenda was a draft of the prefecture’s “second phase of gambling addiction measures,” including the fiscal year 2023 to 2025. According to previous statements from interested parties, the Osaka casino resort plan could take until 2029 to complete.
Osaka Prefecture will finalize its second-term promotion plan in March 2023 after the public opinion gathering process is completed. The prefecture has established a first-phase push plan in early 2020 that covers the fiscal year from 2020 to 2022.
According to information collected by Japanese correspondent GGRAcia, Yoshimura described the IR-linked process of developing gambling addiction measures as an “opportunity” to solve problems that existed even before the casino resort plan.
Yoshimura reportedly said, “There are various types of gambling in Japan,” adding, “The prefecture is facing gambling addiction problems.”
“The IR process is an opportunity. The prefecture will set a goal to lower the gambling addiction rate of Osaka people, who existed “at the start of the IR process,” he also said.
Recently, Osaka’s National Assemblyman, who leads Japan’s Innovation Party, said his group believes Osaka’s integrated resort (IR) regional development plan will be approved by the government before the end of January.
There is also Nagasaki Prefecture, which operates a casino resort, which has talked with commercial partners about plans worth 438.3 billion yen, but has yet to publicly confirm its financing.
On Tuesday, the prefectural government released a press release on the process of collecting public feedback on the draft plan for the second phase of its anti-gambling addiction measures over the fiscal year 2023 to 2025. The window for collecting opinions is from December 19th to January 19th of the new year.
Nagasaki Prefecture plans to complete its second promotion plan in early 2023 after collecting public opinions. Nagasaki established its first phase of promotion plan in January 2020, covering the fiscal year 2020 to 2022.
