{"id":16942,"date":"2021-04-16T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=16942"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:19:25","slug":"japans-pachinko-revenues-reach-75-of-pre-pandemic-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japans-pachinko-revenues-reach-75-of-pre-pandemic-levels","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s pachinko revenues reach 75% of pre-pandemic levels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although sales in the sector seem to be recovering, pachinko revenues could fall again if Japan suffers a new wave of Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- Pachinko parlor revenues have reached nearly\u00a0<strong>75 per cent of the pre-pandemic levels, <\/strong>with <strong>January and February sales per game machine coming to PY301,000 (US$2,760)\u00a0<\/strong>thanks to a relaxation in the Covid-19 countermeasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-sees-7-drop-in-number-of-pachinko-halls\">the number of operational pachinko halls in Japan fell by 584 in 2020<\/a>, with a large drop in the number of available machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pachinko parlor sales per game machine reached almost 83.6 per cent of pre-pandemic levels in October 2020<\/strong>\u00a0but the number quickly fell after a rise in Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to analysts,\u00a0<strong>pachinko sales haven&#8217;t recovered for good\u00a0<\/strong>because of a possible fourth wave of Covid-19 cases that could provoke new countermeasures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although sales in the sector seem to be recovering, pachinko revenues could fall again if Japan suffers a new wave of Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Japanese pachinko sector has seen revenues recover to approximately 75% of pre-pandemic levels, with January and February sales per machine reaching PY301,000 due to eased COVID-19 restrictions. However, the industry experienced a significant reduction in operational halls and available machines in 2020. Analysts caution that a potential fourth wave of COVID-19 could reverse the recovery, necessitating new countermeasures and impacting future GGR.","focusai_entities":"","focusai_location":"Japan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR?","query":"What is the projected impact on the overall Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for the Japanese pachinko sector if a fourth wave of COVID-19 necessitates a return to stricter countermeasures?"},{"label":"Operational Resilience?","query":"How are pachinko operators adapting their governance frameworks and operational models to enhance resilience against future public health crises and regulatory shifts?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[23909],"class_list":["post-16942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-slot-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16953,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942\/revisions\/16953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}