It\u2019s no surprise, then, that international casino operators are willing to spend big, but with just three licenses available, competition will be incredibly fierce.<\/p>\n
Las Vegas Sands, MGM Resorts, Galaxy Entertainment, Genting, Caesars Entertainment, Hard Rock, and Wynn Resorts are just some of the companies jostling for a piece of the market.<\/p>\n
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But Melco has already scored brownie points with the Japanese government by developing a biometric visitor tracking system, MelGuard, to help assuage fears the casinos could be harmful to vulnerable problem gamblers and become a magnet for organized crime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Ho said the system uses biometric technologies as fingerprint scans and will help keep tally on visits to casinos by Japanese citizens, as well as keeping out self-excluded problem gamblers and undesirable elements<\/p>\n
Ho has said his preferred location for a casino would be Osaka and has suggested Tokyo doesn\u2019t need an integrated resort.<\/p>\n
\u201cTokyo by itself is amazing. It\u2019s like when people ask me: \u2018Do you think New York and London need an integrated resort?\u2019 No, they don\u2019t,\u201d he told Bloomberg<\/em> last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melco Resorts invested $10 billion in Macau when it built the City of Dreams and Studio City integrated resorts, but it would invest more in Japan if it is awarded a license, Melco CEO Lawrence Ho promised this week. “If we are lucky enough to be selected for one of the major cities, we will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":75344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,18,13592],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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