Yokohama IR invitation civic group asks city to stop invitation work

Yokohama IR Invited Citizens Group Requests City to Stop Inviting Work April 13 18:33

As the spread of the new coronavirus spreads, civic groups will stop working to attract IR to integrated resort facilities, including casinos promoted by the city of Yokohama, and make full efforts to prevent infection by promoting the city. Requested.

The city of Yokohama is promoting an IR including a casino at Yamashita Wharf in the Port of Yokohama, and plans to summarize the open recruitment conditions for businesses in June, but due to the spread of infection, the mayor in all 18 wards, Citizen briefing sessions, which we plan to participate and hold, have been postponed in six wards.

Meanwhile, members of civil society groups opposing the invitation and members of the Constitutional Democratic Party and the Communist Party met with Deputy Mayor Toshihide Hirahara on the 13th.

At the meeting, the emeritus professor Keio Kobayashi, the co-representative of the civic group, described the signing activity for a referendum on IR invitation planned later this month to prevent the infection of the group. First, I decided to cancel my signature. "

After that, we requested Yokohama City to stop all work related to the invitation of IR and make every effort to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection.

In response, the Deputy Mayor Hirahara said, "We will take your opinion seriously, but we are inviting IRs according to the national schedule, and we would like to hold an explanatory meeting once the situation subsides." I showed my thoughts.

Member of the House of Representatives Abe at the request "cannot understand"

"Isn't Yokohama City too disregarding what's happening now, despite the fact that casinos have stopped around the world, I don't think it's sane to think about the economic policy that has just taken place. Even though the Diet has stopped discussions other than the new coronavirus, I can't understand why only Yokohama City is trying to proceed. "

"Even at the casino facility, we have not even decided how to implement countermeasures against the Ministry of Infectious Diseases. We can only do things within the framework of the government's decision," said Keio University Emeritus Professor Keio Kobayashi, co-head of civil society. I don't need local autonomy, I'm worried that Yokohama seems to have stopped thinking. "