{"id":5848,"date":"2020-04-22T11:36:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T11:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:53:19","slug":"mizuho-lottery-suspension-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/mizuho-lottery-suspension-japan","title":{"rendered":"Mizuho Bank suspends Lottery ticket sales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the largest banks in Japan has suspended lottery ticket sales due to the Coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- One of the largest banks in Japan has suspended lottery ticket sales due to the Coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mizuho Bank has said that as of Thursday it will not allow any face-to-face lottery ticket sales at branches across Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bank has already halted lottery ticket sales at branches in Tokyo and six other branches since the government declared a state of emergency in Japan&#8217;s capital on April 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nationwide lottery sales suspension emerged after <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/shinzo-abe-state-of-emergency-japan\"><strong><em>the state of emergency was expanded to cover the entire country<\/em><\/strong><\/a> last Thursday (April 16).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mizuho is the third-largest financial group in the country and is commissioned to carry out lottery-related operations by a group managing lotteries in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lottery tickets will remain available to purchase online, including at a website run by the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the largest banks in Japan has suspended lottery ticket sales due to the Coronavirus pandemic.<\/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":"Mizuho Bank, a major Japanese financial institution, has suspended face-to-face lottery ticket sales nationwide due to the expanded state of emergency related to the Coronavirus pandemic. While retail sales are halted, lottery tickets remain available for purchase through online channels, including the official lottery group's website.","focusai_entities":"Mizuho Bank","focusai_location":"Japan, Tokyo","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.85), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.9), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.75), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Lottery GGR?","query":"What is the projected impact on Japan's overall lottery Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) given Mizuho Bank's retail suspension and the compensatory effect of online sales channels?"},{"label":"Digital Channel Strategy?","query":"How will Mizuho Bank and the lottery managing group adapt their digital channel strategy and marketing spend to maximize online player acquisition and retention during this period of retail disruption?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,157,161,16338,158],"tags":[7299,470,3573,14999],"class_list":["post-5848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business-news","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-coronavirus","tag-japan","tag-lottery","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848","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=5848"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20360,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions\/20360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}