The National Police Agency plans to lower the maximum winnings from pachinko, according to informed sources. The plan is part of the government's efforts to combat gambling addiction, after legislation was enacted last December to legalize casinos. Under the initiative, the maximum pachinko profit for an ...
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.
The pachinko industry is urging customers to donate steel balls from their winnings to help put hard-up students through university. But anti-gambling activists have dismissed the campaign as a marketing stunt that does nothing to address problems with gambling addiction. "The aim is to help people ...
"I got lost all the time," says writer Min Jin Lee with a charming laugh, sitting in a hotel lobby in San Francisco's Japantown. Before a promotional appearance at a bookstore, she spoke to The Japan Times about writing her new novel "Pachinko," a historical ...
Min Jin Lee's second novel, "Pachinko," charts the fortunes and misfortunes of four generations of a Korean family. Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee.490 pages GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING, Fiction. Beginning in Yeongdo in 1910 with the marriage of Hoonie and Yangjin against the backdrop of Japanese annexation of ...
Even before Shinzo Abe's government opened the door to casinos in Japan, the nation's gamblers wagered ¥23.3 trillion on pachinko and related slot machines in 2015. Even though the market is shrinking as the population ages and finds other forms of entertainment, and the amount ...
The nation's top court has upheld the death sentence of a man convicted of arson in which five people died. The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Sunao Takami's appeal against a lower court ruling in the 2009 case, in which he poured gasoline on the ...
As Japan's elderly population grows, some day-care centers are offering users pachinko, card games and other forms of entertainment as a pastime — as if they are playing at casinos. But Kobe has taken action against those day-care businesses, saying addictions to such activities will ...
Niraku Corp., an operator of pachinko parlors, plans to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange where its stock is expected to start trading around April 8, sources close to the matter said Monday. Fukushima-based Niraku is expected to raise some ¥5 billion ($41.7 ...
You'll have heard this story before, in one form or another. "Mr. B," 66, is a pachinko addict. Hard core. Until a certain fateful day 10 years ago there were no premonitory signs, unless straight-arrow conventionality to the point of dullness is one. Company man, ...
The once-booming pachinko industry, grappling with a graying customer base and the threat of new competition from casinos, is adopting a softer touch and smoke-free zones to lure a new generation of players, particularly women. Pachinko, a modified version of pinball, is a fading national ...
"Welcome!" two young women in shorts and Hawaiian shirts chime over the clatter of pinballs and J-pop music at the Million pachinko parlor in the Tokyo residential area of Suginami. "Your favorite machines are waiting for you, nice and clean," beckon orange, green and yellow ...
