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Casino friend Fumio Kishida in line to be the next Prime Minister of Japan

September 30, 2021

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In Japan and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has reportedly selected long-time political figure Fumio Kishida (pictured) to succeed the unpopular Yoshihide Suga as the Asian nation’s next Prime Minister. ...

Yokohama mayoral candidates come out against city’s integrated casino resort plan

Adam Morgan

June 28, 2021

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In Japan and one of the candidates running to be elected as the next mayor for Yokohama has reportedly come out against the giant city’s plan to bring an envisioned integrated casino resort to a 116-acre parcel...

Online gambling legalization gossip dismissed in Japan

Adam Morgan

March 15, 2021

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In Japan and a prominent political figure has reportedly poured cold water on suggestions that the government of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga may be considering whether to legalize online casino gaming. Acc...

Casino opposition group gets underway in Japan

Adam Morgan

January 15, 2021

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In Japan and members of the Constitutional Democratic Party have reportedly convened the first meeting of an internal group that is to intensively lobby against the granting of the nation’s inaugural trio of in...

Overseas gamblers to be exempt from coming Japanese casino prize taxation

Adam Morgan

December 4, 2020

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In Japan and a prominent member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has reportedly pronounced that non-resident gamblers will not have to pay tax on any prizes they may win at the nation’s coming trio of int...

Japanese political parties hoping to stymie integrated casino resort licensing

Adam Morgan

January 14, 2020

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In Japan and three opposition political parties are reportedly set to join with the Japanese Communist Party in order to introduce legislation that could scupper the nation’s licensing of an inaugural trio of i...

Japanese government postpones foreign player casino tax proposition

Adam Morgan

December 13, 2019

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In Japan and the coalition government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reportedly temporarily shelved a controversial proposal that would have required non-resident foreign players to pay a tax on cash prizes w...

Yokohama sets aside extra cash for integrated casino resort bid

Adam Morgan

September 23, 2019

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In Japan and Friday reportedly saw the city council for Yokohama ratify a supplementary budget that set aside approximately $2.42 million to aid the community’s efforts at securing an integrated casino resort l...

Japan’s governing casino-friendly coalition wins House of Councillors majority

Adam Morgan

July 22, 2019

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In Japan and the governing coalition of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reportedly overcame a splintered opposition yesterday to win a clear majority of seats in the nation’s 245-member upper legislative chamber. ...

Pro-casino candidates do well in Japanese local elections

Adam Morgan

April 23, 2019

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Japan held the latest edition of its quadrennial local elections on Sunday and the exercise reportedly resulted in pro-casino candidates doing well in the northern city of Tomakomai as well as in the southern c...

Pro-casino Governor wins in Wakayama Prefecture

Adam Morgan

November 26, 2018

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In Japan, yesterday reportedly saw the pro-casino incumbent Governor for Wakayama Prefecture, Yoshinobu Nisaka (pictured), win over 80% of the vote in order to secure a fourth consecutive four-year term in offi...

Japanese legislators pass casino legalization measure

Adam Morgan

July 23, 2018

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In Japan, Friday reportedly saw the upper house of the nation’s bicameral National Diet ratify the Integrated Resort Implementation Bill, thus paving the way for the opening of up to three large integrated casi...

Japanese casino legislation clears penultimate hurdle

Adam Morgan

July 19, 2018

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In Japan, proposed legislation that would legalize casino gambling could reportedly face a vote before the full House of Councillors as soon as tomorrow after earlier today being ratified by the body’s influent...

Shinzo Abe remains committed to passing casino legislation this month

Adam Morgan

July 4, 2018

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In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (pictured) has reportedly stated that he remains committed to getting the casino-legalizing Integrated Resort Implementation Bill ratified by the nation’s House of Councillor...

Japan’s House of Representatives passes Integrated Resort Implementation Bill

Sadonna Price

June 19, 2018

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After the Cabinet Committee ratified the Integrated Resort Implementation Bill late last week, it was expected that the full House of Representatives of Japan would vote on the bill in the near future. The vote...