In 'Pachinko,' Sunja's son owns a successful pachinko parlor business. The Japanese game uses metal steel balls, pins, bright lights mixed with luck, and a bit of strategy to win prizes.

It sounds elaborate for a game, but pachinko is both big business and a national obsession – there are more than 12,500 pachinko halls in Japan, some with slot machines, which together make four ...

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Each year, Japanese gamblers spend $200 billion on vertical pinball-like slot machines called pachinko. That's 30 times the annual gambling revenue of Las Vegas , double Japan 's export car ...

A popular arcade game in Japan, Pachinko is a mechanical game similar to Western pinball machines. Often resembling a ...

The machines rake in more than $200 billion a year, some of which finds its way to North Korea. Official figures put the total of remittances from sources in Japan at $25.5 million, but the ...

Japanese companies that run pachinko halls and make the vertical-pinball machines that fill them are increasingly looking to Hong Kong as a venue for initial public offerings.

With Japan’s population getting smaller each year and the government seeking to curb gambling addiction, total spending at pachinko parlors was ¥14.6 trillion ($101.8 billion) in 2022, less ...

The new anti-addiction rules call for pachinko machines to reduce payouts. That means players win and lose money more slowly - and will perhaps find the game less exciting and addictive.

The wildly popular Japanese version of pinball -- called pachinko -- was honored Wednesday at the Sensoji temple in eastern Tokyo, in a ceremony organized by a leading machine maker, Heiwa Corp.