Backlash in Osaka as ‘Dream Island’ leads race to open Japan’s first casino

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Citizens’ groups concerned about development costs for ‘integrated resort’ as well as crime and gambling addiction

But there is a downside. A 2017 study by the health ministry found that about 3.2 million people – about 3.6% of the adult population – were thought to be addicted to gambling, far higher than the 1.2% in France, for example. The high rate of addiction is largely blamed on pachinko, in which players get around strict gambling laws by exchanging prizes or tokens for cash off the premises.

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