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Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi, saying the city, with the second-largest population in the country, aims to open a so-called integrated resort comprising casinos, hotels and shopping facilities in the late 2020s.
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With the city's fiscal condition expected to be more severe, we've decided an integrated resort is needed for us to leap forward.
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commanteer
It's this kind of backwards thinking that will get the city into even more debt.
Mister X
He forgot to add "And line my pockets with money"
Keep these resorts out if Japan they only cause problems for the local residents and nobody asked for them in the first place.
Spitfire
Good one,Mister X.
He is jumping on the 'wairo' bandwagon.
kohakuebisu
I remember reading an article on here that said people in Yokohama had a median income of 7.5 million yen. I thought it was wrong at the time, but here we are a year later and the mayor is saying the city is increasingly hard up.
https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/which-cities-in-japan-are-good-bad-to-live-in