Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JAPAN JAN 2019 6 New year, new horizons www.asgam.com Ben Blaschke Managing Editor We crave your feedback. Please email your comments to bb@asgam.com. T he birth of a new year is always a time of both big challenges and big opportunities. For Inside Asian Gaming , 2019 sees us enter the next exciting phase of our evolution and probably the most significant in our 14-year history. Starting from this very edition, Inside Asian Gaming is proud to launch IAG Japan , incorporating a bilingual English-Japanese version of the print magazine, a Japanese website and a Japanese language daily e-newsletter. Modelled on our highly successful IAG Breakfast Briefing , which hits around 20,000 inboxes at 8am each Macau business day, this new IAG Daily Briefing will be sent to our Japanese readers at midday each weekday. As Managing Editor of Inside Asian Gaming , it’s a thrill to be part of the Japan IR story and I look forward to bringing you all the latest news and insights from this burgeoning new jurisdiction over the coming months and years. I would also like to welcome our new partners, Ohta Publications, with whom we will be working closely to provide the most comprehensive coverage possible – not only on developments in Japan but across all of Asia and beyond. Ohta Publications is publisher of the highly-acclaimed HOTERES magazine for Japan’s hotel and restaurant industries. It also publishes other literary works and magazines and provides consulting services for sales, advertising, travel and leisure, business management, real estate brokerage and a human resource bank. I hope you enjoy reading IAG Japan as much as we enjoy bringing it to you. EDITORIAL