Osaka to team up with MGM Resorts-led group to bid for casino resort

Wanting to ban everyone from doing something, because a minority get themselves into a mess with it, was the argument behind prohibition. It didn't work particularly well and proved to be unpopular. Yet it still keeps getting rolled out for everything from casinos to social media.

The casinos will make little difference to the gambling of ordinary Japanese people. Gambling addicts are already able to ruin their lives with limited legal gambling, the lottery, gaming arcades and the underground casinos of the Yaks. You could ban all gambling and addicts would still find a way. It is the nature of addiction.

If you have a gambling problem (cupcake problem, alcohol problem or drug problem): nobody is forcing you to do it. Get help to stop or grow a pair and go cold turkey before you destroy your life and break up your family. Rich people play with money like kids with Lego bricks. If you are not rich, gambling is a mug's game and best avoided.

Post-Covid the complexes will probably lose the conference facilities and slim down to a posh hotel with a few luxury franchise stores, a casino, a gym, an onsen on the roof and a limo to the airport. There will be jobs for the locals, as there are at all hotels in Japan (or were, before Covid). It's an extra income stream for cities that are running low on funds. Nobody wants to be the next Kyoto.

Xi taking down Macau means that the disgustingly rich will be looking for a new playground to lose some of their ill gotten gains in. Japanese cities may as well claim some of that to pay for public services.

Japan is willing to become a Chinese-ridden place of gambling houses even if its elites and people hate China so much. Oh, the hypocrisy! Can't resist the Chinese money!

Would you be so kind please as to tell us which of the several investors in this project are Chinese? I see Japanese, US, Canadian and an Austrian company involved. I do not see any Chinese involvement but perhaps I missed something?

The YAKS can't wait to get in on this business! They have to be sharpening their knives!

Donald specifically asked Abé for this when he was over here.

If it means less pachinko, then go for it!

Yokohama, near Tokyo and the second-largest city in Japan by population, withdrew its bid due to local concerns about gambling addiction and the deterioration of public safety.

Osaka hadn’t concerns about the same?

More crime and an addictive hobby like gambling is the way forward?

Best news of today. For most of us the only way to find the exit door into life and wealth. Some will be lucky and make it, many others not. But without the casinos, no one will.

already all kinds of gambling available, might as well go ahead and let the government officially get their "cut" of it.

In my hometown of KC, we adopted "river boat gambling" in the mid 90s (sadly the boats never left the peer...).

Initially every casino in the known world rushed to town as did hoards of tourists from other mid-western states. I myself went a few times playing at the cheap blackjack table and leaving once my $100 was gone.

After a while the glitz wore off and I noticed a lot of the entrants going bust (much like their customers only not in a good way), and also a more steady kind of customer: The blue collar worker (usually still in his/her work shirt) with several empty bottles lined up in front at an early hour, feeding token after token into the slots with a thousand yard stare fixed to their face.

We ended up with a whole lot of gambling addicts and none of the touted economic benefits.

Anyway, IF Osaka is going to do this, keep a certain someone with a history of taking a virtually guaranteed money maker and driving it straight into the ground at arms-length at all times.

Good good. We need casinos.

Who needs more hospitals and nursery schools in Japan?

The ultimate side effect, if gambling is legalized across Japan, will be catastrophic for Japanese citizens.

Gambling is legal across Japan. Horse racing in Japan is huge, the biggest in the world in terms of money. Motor Boat racing, Keirin, Motorbike racing. And "quasi" gambling - Pachinko, which everyone knows, despite the loopholes, in practical terms is gambling for cash.

All these people claiming Casinos should be banned, that Japanese people will all become addicted, are patronizing to the vast majority of Japanese, who have no gambling problems.

Do you ban the sale of alcohol because 2% of people have problems with it?

Nice, the poker scene in Japan is thriving, but the tournaments are held in a manner whereby players win "prizes" such as trips to abide by the laws. It'll be good to be able to play some poker directly for cash.

I've never been to Las Vegas, but went to Macau once. The area where the casinos are, glittering and glamorous, once you go out of that area, it's slums after slums after slums. I hope I'm wrong, but Osaka known for its slums and Japan for gambling addictions, it's just gonna get worse after this.

The Osaka casino resort is expected to attract about 20.5 million domestic and foreign visitors a year

close to 55,000 people a day.... 「(°ヘ°)

I don't think this will succeed.

The commonality between Macau and Las Vegas is that both offer more to do than gambling such as massive water parks, world class buffets, magicians, circus, concerts, and conventions. A single casino complex won't do it to attract vacationers and families.

There are hundreds of casinos across the US but none beats Las Vegas. Why? Because they offer nothing other than gambling. The only other place that offer more than gambling is Atlantic City with its beaches, but it's seasonal and can't sustain the city off-season.

Japan is willing to become a Chinese-ridden place of gambling houses even if its elites and people hate China so much. Oh, the hypocrisy! Can't resist the Chinese money!

https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/China-shows-why-Asia-s-casino-bubble-was-always-doomed

The ultimate side effect, if gambling is legalized across Japan, will be catastrophic for Japanese citizens. Panchinko addiction has already infested within Japan for years, and the legalization of gambling will multiply the ills by thousands of times.