The second of eight public hearings on the structure, risks, and local rewards of building integrated casino resorts took place in Osaka on Friday, with concerns raised about problem gamblers, floor layouts and where the resorts would likely be most profitable. The public hearings come ...
Even if Japan's official age of adulthood is lowered to 18 from 20, those under 20 will still be barred from gambling, sources said. The move is designed to protect young people from gambling addiction, the sources said Monday. The government is slated to submit a ...
The government is touting the economic benefits of opening casinos in Japan, but they may be overblown.
With its basic recommendations for operating integrated resort casinos now complete, the central government will hold public hearings across the country this month to explain the requirements and the policies to address problem gambling and concerns about money laundering. While local government officials from Hokkaido ...
A government panel formulating rules to introduce casino gambling submitted a report to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday, aiming to make casinos attractive to foreign tourists while trying to mitigate potential social harm. The government hopes to increase the number of foreign tourists to ...
As the government finalizes the basic guidelines for casino operations, Osaka is pushing forward with a separate but related plan to host the 2025 World Expo — if Japan's bid beats out the competition — at the new integrated gambling resort envisioned in Osaka ...
A proposal that residents be required to give their My Number before entering a casino could severely restrict access, the leader of a ruling party panel working on plans for the Singapore-style resorts said in an interview. Identification cards with chips that contain data including ...
China just sent a clear message to casinos sprouting across Asia: don't peddle your baccarat here. A Shanghai court on Monday convicted 19 Crown Resorts Ltd. current and former staff of illegally promoting gambling on the mainland, handing out prison sentences of as long as ...
A childhood New Year's holiday spent playing cards with his family planted the seeds of a gambling compulsion that ravaged decades of one man's life. Now 67, the former salesman from western Japan fell into debt time and time again as his addiction drew ...
The government and the ruling parties plan to propose a system that will allow pachinko parlors and other gambling facilities to ban “serious” gambling addicts.
A government panel of experts proposed Wednesday that so-called integrated resorts in the country be required to have casinos and four other types of facilities. Each integrated resort must have a convention center, a recreation facility such as a shopping mall or a museum, a ...
As the benefits of casinos were played up, their potential social cost was never seriously taken up in Diet discussions, including whether casinos would exacerbate gambling addiction and how that could be prevented.
