{"id":6065,"date":"2020-04-29T12:34:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T12:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=6065"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:38:42","slug":"pachinko-hall-osaka-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/pachinko-hall-osaka-closure","title":{"rendered":"Osaka Pachinko hall will be forced to close"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura has indicated he is considering closure instructions if the hall continues to operate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- A Pachinko hall in Osaka will be forced to close if it continues to ignore requests to close its doors during the Coronavirus crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Osaka prefecture governor, Hirofumi Yoshimura, has indicated he is considering closure instructions if the hall continues to operate despite a state of emergency in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His enforcement is based on the revised Act on Special Measures for Pandemic Influenza and New Infectious Diseases Preparedness and Response, <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-actions-suspend-gaming-operations\"><strong><em>where pachinko parlours can be forced to close<\/em><\/strong><\/a> in Sakai City if they ignore or don&#8217;t respond to the prefecture&#8217;s closure requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be the first time in Japan such enforcement has been issued, but the governor will not refrain if necessary during these unprecedented times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: &#8220;I will implement this as a political decision to protect the lives of residents of this prefecture in two days&#8217; time (April 30).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura has indicated he is considering closure instructions if the hall continues to operate.<\/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":"A Pachinko hall in Osaka faces imminent forced closure by Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura for non-compliance with COVID-19 emergency requests. This marks the first instance in Japan where enforcement under the revised Act on Special Measures for Pandemic Influenza and New Infectious Diseases Preparedness and Response will be applied to a gaming establishment.","focusai_entities":"Hirofumi Yoshimura, Osaka prefecture","focusai_location":"Japan, Osaka, Sakai City","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Precedent Impact","query":"What are the broader implications of this unprecedented regulatory enforcement action on other gaming verticals and the overall iGaming market's operational stability in Japan?"},{"label":"Compliance Framework Analysis","query":"How does the revised Act on Special Measures for Pandemic Influenza and New Infectious Diseases Preparedness and Response specifically empower prefectural governors to enforce closures, and what are the appeal mechanisms for operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,161,16338,439],"tags":[7299,470,707,11559],"class_list":["post-6065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-legal-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-japan","tag-osaka","tag-pachinko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065","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=6065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20029,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions\/20029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}