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IAG DEC 2019年12月 亞博匯 13 GOVERNMENT NOMINATES FIVE MEMBERS OF JAPAN’S IR REGULATORY BODY 日本政府提名五名IR監管機構成員 THE former Defense Director of Japan’s Ministry of Defense, Michio Kitamura, has been nominated as Chairman of the Casino Management Committee – the regulatory body set to oversee the nation’s IR industry. Kitamura was one of five individuals presented to both chambers of the Diet in November as nominatedmembers of the CasinoManagement Committee, which will be formally established on 7 January 2020 with the task of overseeing the selection, licensing and general supervision of Japan’s IR industry. The other four members presented to the Diet are former head of the Nagoya Regional Taxation Bureau Hiroyuki Kane, psychiatrist Michiko Watanabe, Keio University special professor Noriko Endo, and former police chief director Kenji Higuchi. It is hoped that the Diet will approve the appointments of the five nominees before the end of the current session on 9 December 2019. 日本 前防衛大臣北村道夫日前被提名擔 任賭場管理委員會的主席，該委員會將是 日本全國綜合度假村（IR）產業的監管機 構。 北村是向國會兩院提交的賭場委員 會提名名單上的五名人士之一。該委員會 將於2020年1月7日正式成立，負責監督日 本IR產業的篩選、牌照和一般監督事宜。 另外四位獲提名成員分別是：名古屋 地方國稅局前局長氏兼裕之、精神病學家 渡路子、慶應義塾大學教授遠藤典子，及 前警察局局長樋口建史。 日本國會有望在2019年12月9日的本 屆會議結束前，批准五名候選人的任命。