{"id":777027939,"date":"2025-06-18T09:01:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777027939"},"modified":"2026-04-21T21:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:47:47","slug":"japan-passes-bill-to-ban-online-casino-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-passes-bill-to-ban-online-casino-ads","title":{"rendered":"Japan passes bill to ban online casino ads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The revised law will be promulgated by the end of this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Japan.- The House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Japanese parliament, has approved a bill to amend the Basic Law for Countermeasures against Gambling Addiction to ban promoting online casinos in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill, passed by the House of Representatives<\/a> earlier in the month, is expected to be promulgated by the end of this month and will come into effect three months later. The new legislation bans banner ads, ranking and recommendation sites and posts on social media that promote online casinos. It also requires authorities to raise awareness of the illegality of online casinos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The law doesn\u2019t impose clear criminal penalties but encourages internet service providers and social media operators to delete illegal ads and affiliate websites. A hotline commissioned by the National Police Agency to monitor harmful information, is expected to issue requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May, the Council for Sports Ecosystem Promotion (C-SEP) reported that bettors in Japan wagered about JPY6.45tn (US$45bn) on offshore sports betting sites in 2024, including JPY1tn (US$6.94bn) on domestic sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An estimated JPY528bn (US$3.68bn) was wagered on pro baseball, JPY333.4bn (US$2.32bn) on soccer and JPY87bn (US$606m) on basketball, according to estimates from The Council for Sports Ecosystem Promotion (C-SEP). In March, the National Police Agency (NPA) said 3.37 million people in the country<\/a> had gambled at online casinos, spending around JPY1.24tn (US$8.4bn) annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Japan’s lower house approves bill to ban online casinos<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The revised law will be promulgated by the end of this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":16417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Japan's House of Councillors has approved a bill to amend the Basic Law for Countermeasures against Gambling Addiction, effectively banning the promotion of online casinos within the country. The legislation, expected to be promulgated this month, prohibits digital advertising, ranking sites, and social media posts, with enforcement relying on internet service providers and the National Police Agency.","focusai_entities":"House of Councillors, House of Representatives, Council for Sports Ecosystem Promotion (C-SEP), National Police Agency (NPA)","focusai_location":"Japan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (1.0), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Enforcement Mechanisms","query":"What specific enforcement mechanisms, beyond encouraging ISP cooperation and hotline requests, will the National Police Agency implement to penalize non-compliant online casino promoters and platforms?"},{"label":"Impact on Offshore Operators","query":"How will this ban on promotion impact the GGR and NGR of offshore online casino operators currently serving the Japanese market, given the absence of direct criminal penalties for consumers?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,24628,154,158],"tags":[23911,470,4138],"class_list":["post-777027939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-highlight-of-the-week","category-legislation-news","category-slider-home","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-japan","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777027939","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777027939"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777027939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777027965,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777027939\/revisions\/777027965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777027939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777027939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777027939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}