Tetsuya Makino, 40, has devoted most of his life to a game that has fascinated him since he was 7 years old: pachinko.
Makino first started playing with the machines at a department store in Tokyo. Now he manages a pachinko museum that boasts 148 machines, many of them admired as rare and historic mementos of the game's industry.
"I am really grateful for my encounter with pachinko. I wanted to say thank you to pachinko and wanted to return something" to the game, Makino said in a recent interview with The Japan Times.