{"id":5824,"date":"2020-04-22T09:48:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T09:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=5824"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:54:13","slug":"japan-actions-suspend-gaming-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-actions-suspend-gaming-operations","title":{"rendered":"Japan to take action against pachinko operators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The government is discussing how to take action against operators who have refused to close parlours during the Covid-19 state of emergency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- The Japanese government is planning to take strong action against pachinko operators that have remained open despite a state of emergency in the country due to the Coronavirus outbreak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <em>Inside Asian Gaming<\/em>, Japan\u2019s Minister for Economic Revitalisation, Yasutoshi Nishimura, said the government is looking into ways of forcing them to close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March, Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshihide Suga, requested that pachinko parlours undertake self-imposed closures in a bid to halt the spread of Coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okura Holdings reported to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, \u201cthe group intends to <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-pachinko-gaming\">continue operating<\/a><\/em><\/strong> all of its pachinko halls across Japan, including the five pachinko halls in the areas under the state of emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike Okura Holdings, Dynam and Maruhan, the largest pachinko parlour operators in the country, have shut their shops in seven prefectures in line with government advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is discussing how to take action against operators who have refused to close parlours during the Covid-19 state of emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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 government is planning stringent measures against pachinko operators, notably Okura Holdings, for defying self-imposed closure requests during the COVID-19 state of emergency. This action follows the non-compliance of some operators, contrasting with major players like Dynam and Maruhan who adhered to government advice, highlighting a critical regulatory enforcement challenge within the gaming vertical.","focusai_entities":"Yasutoshi Nishimura, Yoshihide Suga, Okura Holdings, Dynam, Maruhan, Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Inside Asian Gaming","focusai_location":"Japan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement Scope","query":"What specific legal frameworks or emergency powers is the Japanese government considering to enforce closures, and what are the potential penalties for non-compliant pachinko operators?"},{"label":"Market Impact Analysis","query":"How might the government's proposed actions against non-compliant operators alter the competitive landscape and market share dynamics within the Japanese pachinko vertical, particularly for publicly listed entities like Okura Holdings?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,161,16338,154],"tags":[7299,470,11559],"class_list":["post-5824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-legislation-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-japan","tag-pachinko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5824"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20354,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824\/revisions\/20354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}