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On March 26, 2019, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held the fourth meeting of the Headquarters for the Promotion of Integrated Resorts (Headquarters for Promoting Development of Specified Complex Tourist Facilities Areas) at the Prime Minister’s Office.
 
During the meeting, a discussion was held on the Draft Government Ordinance Pursuant to the Act on Promotion of Development of Specified Complex Tourist Facilities Areas and other matters.
 
Based on the discussion, the Prime Minister said,
 
“The Abe administration has been working on detailed design of the system under the Integrated Resort (IR) Development Act, which was enacted in summer last year, with the aim of materializing an attractive Japanese-style IR.  
 
The Draft Government Ordinance Pursuant to the IR Development Act, which Minister in charge of Integrated Resorts Ishii just briefed today, requests facilities, which consist of an IR such as international conference halls, to achieve an unprecedented scale and quality as its designated standard and criteria and introduces relevant clauses to materialize world-class casino regulations, with the aim to realize long-stay tourism which attracts tourists from all over the world.
 
Going forward, the Government aims at making Japan a leading nation in tourism, exerting every effort to establish the Casino Administration Committee and set forth the basic policies, as determined in the IR Development Act.
 
I ask for the continued cooperation of all relevant parties.”