shrugged off the scandal<\/a> and is determined to press ahead with the integrated resorts process. On Monday, a casino control commission was officially established to oversee the licensing and regulation of casinos.<\/p>\nCasino liberalization has been a long-cherished goal of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and part of a wider bundle of economic growth strategies that have been collectively dubbed “Abeconics.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Japanese citizens largely share the skepticism of Japan\u2019s opposition parties towards casinos. Polls have consistently shown the public is opposed to the establishment of integrated resorts by a 2 to 1 margin.<\/p>\n
A September 2018 poll found that a staggering 94 percent of Yokohama citizens said they had \u201cnegative viewpoints\u201d on allowing an integrated casino resort in their city.<\/p>\n
Yukio Edano, leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, told the\u00a0Japan Times <\/em>recently that \u201cUS casino operators will set up subsidiaries and operate them, and losses by Japanese gamblers will be channeled to the US.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThis selling-off of the country is akin to treason,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Japan\u2019s opposition parties have said they will introduce a bill that seeks to repeal the Integrated Resorts Promotion Act (IRPA), the law passed in 2016 that paved the way for the legalization of casinos in the country. The bill — which will be introduced on January 20, the first day of Japan\u2019s legislative session — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":124018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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