{"id":6494,"date":"2020-05-15T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=6494"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:12:32","slug":"pachinko-osaka-reopen-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/pachinko-osaka-reopen-japan","title":{"rendered":"Pachinko halls allowed to reopen in Osaka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pachinko halls with a floor space of 1,000 square meters or less will be allowed to reopen from tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Japan.- Pachinko halls will be allowed to reopen in Osaka from Saturday as the country starts to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pachinko halls with a floor space of 1,000 square meters or less will be allowed to reopen, but any size above that will not be permitted to open their doors yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Osaka Governor, Hirofumi Yoshimura said: &#8220;I want to aim for a society that lives with this virus while maintaining economic activity. However, we need to continue to remain vigilant.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Osaka is not included in the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-prefectures-daily-news\">state of emergency orders being lifted in 39 prefectures<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pachinko halls with a floor space of 1,000 square meters or less will be allowed to reopen from tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Pachinko halls in Osaka, Japan, with a floor space of 1,000 square meters or less, are permitted to reopen from Saturday, signaling a partial recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. This decision by Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura aims to balance economic activity with continued vigilance, even as Osaka remains outside the 39 prefectures where state of emergency orders are being lifted.","focusai_entities":"Hirofumi Yoshimura","focusai_location":"Japan, Osaka","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.98), investor_analyst (0.9), gambler_consumer (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis?","query":"What are the projected Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) impacts for Osaka's Pachinko sector given the 1,000 square meter operational restriction, and how does this compare to pre-pandemic levels?"},{"label":"Regulatory Harmonization?","query":"How do Osaka's specific reopening directives and floor space limitations for Pachinko halls align with or diverge from regulatory frameworks being implemented in other Japanese prefectures, particularly those lifting state of emergency orders?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,16338,158],"tags":[470,707,11559],"class_list":["post-6494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-japan","tag-osaka","tag-pachinko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494","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=6494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20020,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions\/20020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}