Opening of Osaka casino resort to be delayed by 1 year to fall 2030

Reflecting higher material costs, the total price tag of the Osaka casino resort project is now estimated to be 1.27 trillion yen, up from the previous figure of 1.08 trillion yen.

In 2024 and after, cost even will be more, now it's already 20% increase.

Just who will come to this resort?

The Chinese?

The Japanese are becoming more impoverished by the day so it won’t be the people here

Ahhh, the fruits of more LDP bribery and corruption.

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14435154

The Japanese are becoming more impoverished by the day so it won’t be the people here

This is exactly what I was thinking.

I’m looking forward to being able to have a punt here. Gambling in moderation is fun now and then.

The Chinese?

Yes. Mostly asian gamblers. And the mafias of course.

Amongst all the rising cost of living (rent/food/gas/heating/entertainment) and the forever weak pay wage, what is needed most at this time? (Or in a few years when prices haven risen even more) A friggin' casino!

They wanted to go head to head with Macau, Monte Carlo and Dubai. It would give rich people an opportunity to play with their money and chat to their rich chums, away from the rest of us, in a gated chunk of Japaneseness. Whatever the economy does, there will always be rich people.

I don't understand that discussion and further delay. Just build it quickly right now and omit instead that useless 'resort' hotel and business conference complex. No one needs that there on an inconvenient artificial concrete island. We casino lovers can very well stay at already existing hotels in the city , where it is also nearer to spend the big money won at delicious restaurants, department stores and so on.

Whatever the economy does, there will always be rich people.

And this is a bad thing? Who pays your salary? Companies dont come out of thin air and most rich people didnt get rich doing nothing or hating on the successful. good lord..

Just who will come to this resort?

The Chinese?

The Japanese are becoming more impoverished by the day so it won’t be the people here

That's the way it has been designed. Japan residents will have to pay a 6,000 yen entry fee and are limited to a maximum number of 10 visits per month. Foreign visitors have no entry fee and no limitation. The idea is a copy of Singapore's gambling policy that is designed to prevent problem casino addictions in the local community, while encouraging tourist gambling.

I'm sure I'll find a way to cope without it.

Just who will come to this resort?

The Chinese?

Yep. Most degenerate gamblers in the world.

Japan residents will have to pay a 6,000 yen entry fee and are limited to a maximum number of 10 visits per month.

Yes, admitted, that's a hurdle for citizens living here and quite a bit hard to regain in addition to the standard average losses due to their house advantage. On the other hand, many players blow such amounts away within a few minutes, at already officially allowed and accessible pachinko parlors, sports betting venues or lotteries. Casinos are much "cheaper" than those, especially table games. Without using martingales or other strategies that include excessive raising of your initial bets , you could even sit a whole day at the table and will be entertained and have an outcome of slightly above or below zero. There's no cheaper entertainment than a casino table game. It's only getting dangerous or expensive if your hunger for money is getting too big.

The Japanese are becoming more impoverished by the day so it won’t be the people here

These are the exact people who go to casino's hopping for a lucky win to get them through the month.

I live near a panchinko parlour and they even queue up outside before it opens. Lets not encourage more of this sort of thing.

The Chinese might be ‘degenerate gamblers’ but Japan and China are both distancing themselves from each other.

Those effects are yet to be felt but there will surely be negative ones

Sure it's your choice, spend your all your free time in a casino if you want to.

You may just end up losing $50-100 dollars after hours have been frittered away, but of course you won't have made any headway in your life otherwise.

It would be great if the slot machines and roulette wheels make a giant toilet flushing sound each time you pull the handle, push the button or spin the wheel.

Everybody knows the dice are loaded

Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed

Japanese locals, inc. us, will have to pay 6000 yen just get in so you'll automatically be down 6000. No thanks. Had they not had this automatic in the red for us locals, I'd go.

One delay I won't mind