Inside Asian Gaming

IAG NOV 2022年11月 亞博匯 77 11-25 PRESIDENT AND CEO Japan Racing Association 理事長兼行政總裁 日本中央競馬會 CLAIMS TO FAME 名成事跡 POWER SCORE 權能指數: 972 POSITION LAST YEAR 去年排名: 11 A 46-year veteran of the Japan Racing Association across numerous roles 這位資深業界代表在日本中央競馬會工作長達47年，曾出任多個職位 MASAYUKI GOTO 後藤正幸 12 AS A KEY GENERATOR of public revenue – much like the highly vaunted Hong Kong Jockey Club – long-serving Japan Racing Association (JRA) President and CEO Masayuki Goto presides over one of the most important pandemic- and post-pandemic- era industries in the region. While gaming ventures across the globe were hit hard by the pandemic, including both Japan’s own pachinko industry and efforts to develop integrated resorts, the JRA kept powering along with 2020 turnover up 3.4% year-on-year to JPY2.89 trillion (US$19.6 billion) before rising another 3.6% in 2021 to JPY3.10 trillion (US$21.0 billion). In the top job since 2014, the Tokyo native’s long period of service to the JRA started in 1975, and in the 46 years since, he has worked in a wide range of roles for the association. In the last 15 years these have included stints as director in charge of planning and finance and as executive director responsible for policy, stables and breeding. He was also posted to the JRA’s New York office as chief representative for three years in the 1990s, giving him precious hands-on international experience. 日本中央競馬會(JRA) 是日本公共收入的主要來源，一如香港賽馬會一 樣。而長期出任中央競馬會理事長兼行政總裁的後藤正幸就掌管著該地區 無論疫情期間還是疫情後的最重要行業之一。 儘管全球的博彩企業、包括日本自己的彈珠機產業以及發展綜合度 假村的努力，都在疫情中受到沉重打擊。但中央競馬會繼續保持強勁勢 頭。2020年營業額按年增長3.4%至2.89萬億日元（196億美元），隨後 在2021年再增長3.6%至3.10萬億日元（210 億美元）。 後藤正幸來自東京，自1975年開始就職於日本中央競馬會，並在此後 的47年間出任了多個不同領域的職位。他自2014年起擔任日本中央競馬 會理事長一職。過去的16年間，他曾擔任過負責企業規劃及財務的主管、 賽馬管理政策、馬廄和養殖事務常務理事。 1990年代，他還曾被派往JRA紐約辦事處擔任首席代表三年，獲得了 寶貴的國際實踐經驗。