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_2019-05-22
The Abe government is pulling back from the planned July 1 establishment of the Casino Management Board and the issuance of more specific IR bidding regulations out of concern that Japanese public opinion remains hostile to the legalization of casino...

_2019-03-26
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet on Tuesday approved the proposals for IR regulation that had been outlined by the Headquarters for Promoting Dev

_2018-04-07
Hopes that the IR Implementation Bill will be passed before the June 20 end of the Ordinary Diet Session are quickly fading as the administration of P

_2018-03-15
The IR implementation bill won’t be submitted to the legislature this month, as had been planned, throwing doubt over the timetable for the bill. Th

_2018-02-20
Japan is considering imposing an entry fee to casinos of Y2000 ($18.6) and imposing a tax rate of 30 percent on operators’ revenue, according to loc

_2017-12-03
In something of a surprise move, the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito party jointly submitted their gambling anti-addi

_2017-06-10
Japan’s Ordinary Diet Session is set to close at the end of this month with no significant legislative progress on preparing for IRs after the rulin

_2016-12-12
Japan’s casino bill now looks certain to pass into law after an upper house committee approved the bill, despite opposition from anti-gambling facti

_2016-12-01
A Lower House committee passed Japan’s framework bill to legalize casinos, potentially paving the way for the legislation to be passed in the actual

_2016-11-03
As the Japanese Diet moves next week toward a resumption of deliberations on Bill for the Promotion of Integrated Resort Facilities, better known as t