Japan

The Gaming Standards Association (GSA) has announced it will be operating under the name and branding of the “International Gaming Standards Association” or “IGSA”.GSA...

Osaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura urged the national government not to engage in an extended delay before issuing its IR Basic Plan, and he expressed...

The board of directors of Genting Singapore have called an extraordinary general meeting for February 4 to authorize an IR bid in a major...

Several major domestic media outlets reported Monday evening that the national IR development schedule will be delayed for an undetermined period of time in...

While the central government continues to breezily insist that the 500 Dot Com bribery scandal has nothing to do with the nation’s IR development...

A team of opposition lawmakers opposed to casino legalization toured Yamashita Pier, the proposed location for the Yokohama IR.

According to the latest reports, the number of would-be IR operators participating in the Nagasaki RFC process has now declined to three.

An advisory panel to the health minister of Japan has recommended that the treatment of gambling addiction be covered by the national health insurance...

Public opinion polls taken in the wake of the 500 Dot Com bribery scandal agree that a large majority of the Japanese people want the government to reconsider its policy of casino legalization.

As he reaches the 23-day limit of his detention over charges that he accepted 3 million yen (about US$28,000) in bribes from the Chinese lottery firm 500 Dot Com, prosecutors reportedly plan to rearrest former State Minister for the Cabinet Office Tsukasa Akimoto, now believing that the bribes were more than double what they initially suspected.