Visitors play pachinko, a Japanese form of legal gambling, at a pachinko parlour, after the government announced nationwide state of emergency following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in ...

Pachinko and Pachislot machines have dominated the Japanese gambling market for decades now, but a recent survey suggest that its number of users have been shrinking year by year with new record lows.

NAGOYA, Japan — Part pinball and part roulette, with the lure of quick cash winnings and little silver balls ricocheting off pins and bumpers, the Japanese game of pachinko once seemed a permanent ...

OSAKA/TOKYO (Reuters) - Moves towards legalising casinos in Japan have reignited a debate over the legal status of pachinko, with a potential new tax mooted for a $200 billion gaming industry that has ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's once-booming pachinko industry, grappling with a greying customer base and the threat of new competition from casinos, is adopting a softer touch and smoke-free zones to lure ...

Pachinko has become a visible sight in Japan’s urban landscape. But will that change? Photo: Prisma by Dukas/Universal Images Group (Getty Images) Japan’s pachinko industry, a bulwark in the country’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover casinos and travel in Asia. As Japanese as sushi, sake and Super Mario, pachinko is under attack from efforts to legalize ...

A quick quiz to test your knowledge of Japan. The biggest industry in the world`s second-largest economy is (A) automobiles, (B) electronics, (C) Treat yourself to a platter of sushi if you picked ”C.

A staple of the modern Japanese cityscape, pachinko parlors employ a third of a million people in Japan, draw in an estimated 30 trillion yen per year, and entice roughly one quarter of the country's ...