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Seigi
Amazing! It will be a great casino resort for sure!
Jay
This casino will bring families closer together. When Dad loses on the roulette table, they'll have to move into smaller houses.
Spitfire
They have to start realizing that the tourist dollar is the way to go.
I have just been told by a good Japanese friend who recently went on a 10-day ocean cruise that of her ship's 2,800 guests only 10% were Japanese.
This was a cruise that started and finished in Yokohama.
It would seem that the elderly Japanese,the ones with the money, are reluctant to travel nowadays and the young Japanese simply don't have the time/money or either of them to travel.
rcch
Osaka…
sighs
Mr Kipling
Another step in Japan's future .... Becoming a playground for the rich of China.
nandakandamanda
Trump asked for this during his Japan visit, as a special favor for a Nevada friend.
Sven Asai
Can’t wait to visit. That’s our one and only and probably last chance, folks. Legal gambling at low house advantage for some table games is the only safe way to leave poverty. Yes, I know, the image is still very bad and also a very few might make it otherwise, by big inheritance, working hard or steadily successful stock investments, but that’s only extremely rare. I’ve never met such one who made it the officially propagated way.
Donald Seekins
Gambling. With all its social problems, this is just what Japan needs. It will bring to Osaka the blessed trinity of gangsters, prostitution and drugs - not to mention the gambling addiction of people who probably couldn't afford it.
Nagasaki is next on the list of possible casino sites. For that city's sake, I hope they stop the project before it's too late.
Concerned Citizen
Bad decision.
lunatic
We must thank the Chinese gambling operators for this.
They have been bribing J-politicians since 2020 to get this Casino done.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/03/national/crime-legal/japan-lawmaker-casino-bribery-charge/
Fighto!
Really good news. My only criticism is why has it taken so long for the green light to be given to the Integrated Resort?
Gambling has been popular for a very long time in Japan, and society has not collapsed. Horse racing, keirin and motor boat racing as well as thousands of pachinko joints. Even if one dislikes gambling there will be a plethora of entertainment options, bars and restaurants in the IR.
A win for jobs and tourism growth for Japan.
Clay
desperate times call for desperate measures, after all Govt. tax revenues matter above all else!
Mark
I am all for it as long as it's uncorrupt which is hard to do.
Minikaeru
Just what Osaka needs, another crime and corruption magnet.
Laguna
Pachinko cough - a type of gambling - has been legal for how long?
Good thing it hasn't had a detrimental effect on society, such as parents leaving their children in sweltering cars while they play.
Bobo
Osaka! don’t worry if you live in Tokyo, the line to get in will start in Tokyo anyways, like anywhere here.
purple_depressed_bacon
Doesn't Japan already have a gambling problem with people at pachinko parlors at all hours of the morning and night? And they want to exacerbate this by building a full-fledged Vegas type casino? Yeah, this is not going to end well...
dbsaiya
Aah, of course, the Kansai region. Home of the Yamaguchi gumi. Not so much of a coincidence is it?
Kibou
No country that makes tourism one of their main business ever succeed. No country should rely on people from outside unless they are 3rd world countries.
kohakuebisu
Yumeshima is one of several artificial islands and part of a bay development that almost bankrupted Osaka City. They've been looking for uses for those islands for years. It was part of the Osaka Olympic bid, for example. They're currently setting it up for the Expo and after that will hand it over, probably on the cheap, to the casino people.
shogun36
slaps…..how long is this going to take?
I remember when this was a big issue before corona happened, and they still haven’t accomplished anything?
the first casino resort will open in 2029?!
how many of these LDP dinosaurs, that are trying to fill their pockets with bribes, will even be around by then?
nosuke
Wow the Yaks are gonna love this and probably run the joint but I dont think this casino will be as good as any casino in Vegas. Besides, good luck not becoming a gambaholic.
carpslidy
Can they please legalize sports gambling at the same time
Toto is rubbish
Stephen Chin
2029? But why approve it now? Is it the Japanese Government's hope
that the Japanese population will foget the IR (Integrated Resorts) ? And by 2028 it will be too late to protest the plan when, Las Vegas with all its bright lights and sin together with 1.4 trillion yen increasing each year will eadsily move across the Pacific into Nagasaki?
And does the Japanese Government not have the child-like imagination to see that? From 2029 onwards, Nagasaki will be more devasted morally by IR than by Fat Man in 1945?
obladi
Net loss on society, in my opinion, but to each his own.
kurisupisu
Fun for all the family
And…
It’ll be a great place to pick up cheap secondhand cars-can’t wait!
Rodney
Why isn’t this 100% Japanese?
Sanjinosebleed
What could go wrong…
nosuke
Only Japanese Will know what goes wrong
Nayel
Casinos get people hooked on gambling.
Bad move from the japanese goverment for sure.
u_s__reamer
The powers-that-be can no longer be sure to supply the "bread", so they're gambling on giving folks more "circuses". A bad idea, however you slice and dice it.
TokyoLiving
Sounds good..
Stephen Chin
Gambling can become evil. For proof, just look at Las Vegas. Why does the Japanese Government want to bring evil (Las Vegas) across the Pacific to Nagasaki or Osaka?
Septim Dynasty
This is an excellent magnet to attract the Chinese and other Asian magnates into investing in Japan at the cost of turning the country into another unequal UK.
albaleo
Has Osaka not been the reigning capital of such things for decades?