Japan’s Osaka prefecture said on Friday that from now until April 6 it will consider submissions from any additional private-sector entities interested in partnering the metropolis (pictured) in its tilt at hosting a casino resort. Osaka has targeted July this year as a deadline for any further responses by private entities to its request-for-proposal (RFP) process, according to information issued ...

Were an US$11 billion-plus deal to go through for casino operator MGM Resorts International to transform its business model by acquiring online betting conglomerate Entain Plc, it could lead the MGM brand to take a smaller role in a land-based casino resort in Japan, and long-term could even see the MGM parent divest its interest in Macau casino licensee MGM China ...

At least three foreign casino resort operators have expressed an interest in the integrated resort (IR) licence in Nagasaki, according to Japanese newspaper Nagasaki Shimbun. The prefecture’s Request for Proposal (RFP) is set to launch on 7 January 2021, with four candidates already in line to take part; Casinos Austria, Oshidori International Holdings, Pixel Companyz, and a consortium comprising Current ...

Osaka, Japan’s third-largest city, will restart its request for proposal (RFP) outreach for integrated resort operators in January after delaying the process in June because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Dontonbori Canal in Osaka, seen here. The Japanese city is restarting its RFP process for a casino-resort in January. Clarity is finally merging on the city’s plans to work with ...

As Japan’s government still plans on moving forward with its integrated resort (IR) expansion next year, after having been forced to put everything on hold because of COVID-19, one of the primary areas to host a casino resort is getting ready. Osaka will, once again, try to get its request-for-proposal (RFP) process off the ground starting in January and the prefecture is now ...

The prefectural authorities in Osaka, Japan, now say they will restart in January a request-for-proposal (RFP) process for identifying potential private-sector partners for the local tilt at hosting a casino complex, or integrated resort (IR), as they are known in that country. At that time the Osaka authorities will also announce their revised local implementation policy for an IR. The new timetable was ...

Osaka is the latest city in Japan to formally announce that its integrated resort (IR) time line has been indefinitely suspended. Osaka, which recently topped Tokyo in the number of new daily COVID-19 cases, is putting its integrated resort aspirations on hold. Japan’s central government failed to meet its own self-imposed July 26 deadline to release its Basic Policy. The ...

The governor of the Osaka prefecture, Hirofumi Yoshimura, has confirmed to the media that the process associated with getting an operating license for an integrated casino resort as large casino, hospitality, and entertainment complexes are known in the country, was suspended at the end of June in the prefecture and its associated urban metropolis. As revealed by a GGRAsia’s correspondent in Japan, the ...

Osaka’s once bold plan to get an Integrated Resort (IR) casino up and running by 2025 now looks pretty doomed. The governor of the prefecture, Hirofumi Yoshimura, has confirmed that the process to move forward remains paused, and they’ll need to take the new situation of the world into account before moving forward again. Yoshimura has confirmed no new progress on the ...

Hirofumi Yoshimura, the governor of Japan’s Osaka prefecture, has respectively confirmed to journalists that the prefecture and its associated urban metropolis (pictured), suspended in late June, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the process related to getting a casino complex or integrated resort (IR), as they are known in that country. “Under the coronavirus situation, the process related to IR has been ...

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, both prefectures have decided to delay the selection of a private-sector partner, a necessary step in order to make a bid for one of Japan’s first three integrated resort licences. Osaka and Wakayama prefectures have opted to postpone the administrative groundwork necessary to make a bid for one of the country’s first three integrated resort ...

MGM Resorts CEO and President Bill Hornbuckle says the company is not ‘all-in’ on plans to develop an integrated resort in Osaka as it prepares to resume negotiations over its Japanese investment. While MGM remains hopeful of continuing on its Japanese journey, Hornbuckle was circumspect on the conditions that would make such an investment feasible as the industry emerges from ...

The Integrated Resort of Japan has been planned for some time, but has faced many delays in the previous months. The country is still looking to push the project through new casino venues which will see three local cities become richer. The present state of affairs is in favour of Nagasaki and Osaka who have already lodged their project applications. Nagasaki ...

The global gambling industry has been struck hard by COVID-19, and Japan gaming has not been spared. Seemingly, the virus is here to stay; Nagasaki, one of the leading contenders to host a new casino resort, has decided to move forward with its plans to start receiving applications from private-sector businesses looking to get involved in the fledgling market. While the prefecture ...

The authorities in the Nagasaki prefecture in Japan have revealed that they still intend to launch this summer the request-for-proposal (RFP) process aimed at identifying and assessing possible private-sector partners that are fit to operate an integrated casino resort. According to the governor of Nagasaki, Hodo Nakamura, the prefecture authorities hope that they would be able to select a partner by the winter of 2020. ...

Osaka prefecture and city announced on Tuesday that the deadline for submission of Request for Proposal (RFP) documentation by operators has been extended again, with the new deadline to be determined once details of the national government’s basic policy have been revealed. The decision represents the second time this year the RFP process has been delayed, having previously been pushed ...

The Osaka prefecture and city authorities confirmed on Tuesday they had extended the deadline for the request-for-proposal (RFP) process in their tilt at having a casino resort. No specific cut-off date in relation to the refreshed deadline was mentioned by the authorities, according to GGRAsia’s Japan correspondent. The Osaka authorities stated a new deadline would be set once the national government ...

Government officials in the Osaka Prefecture and its capital city have formally announced that the deadline for casino operators to submit integrated resort proposals is being pushed back – again. Plans are being delayed to add a towering casino resort to the Osaka Castle and city skyline. Earlier this month, Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui said the city would likely need ...

The delay to Osaka’s request-for-proposal (RFP) phase in its tilt at a casino resort, which coincides with the country tackling Covid-19, is a “reasonable” decision, said the Japan unit of United States-based casino operator MGM Resorts International, in an email to GGRAsia. “The delay is reasonable,” a spokesperson from MGM Resorts Japan LLC told GGRAsia in an emailed reply on Friday. The ...

The authorities in Osaka city (pictured) said on Thursday that a key phase in the city’s effort to get a casino resort would be put back by a further six months. Osaka’s mayor, Ichiro Matsui, said at a regular press briefing that the authorities had also amended their timetable for opening such a gaming resort in the metropolis, according to GGRAsia’s correspondent in Japan. According to Thursday’s announcement, the deadline ...

Osaka officials announced Thursday that the city was pushing back its request-for-proposal (RFP) deadline by another six months, a move that could delay the opening of a casino there until 2028. A group of people walk through a shopping area in Tokyo on March 27, 2020. Osaka has pushed back its request-for-proposal deadline six months, likely in part due to ...

The regional authorities in Osaka have suggested that the prefecture’s RFP process has been placed on the back-burner while it deals with the immediate issue of the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, despite the COVID-19 virus, Nagasaki prefecture has said it still plans to hold its RFP this spring. The mayor of Osaka, Ichiro Matsui, has acknowledged that the prefecture’s request-for-proposal (RFP) ...