{"id":8112,"date":"2020-07-14T22:19:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T22:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=8112"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:39:17","slug":"japans-pachinko-revenue-falls-77-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japans-pachinko-revenue-falls-77-5","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s pachinko revenue falls 77.5%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gaming revenue from pachinko machines has been dropping for the last 11 consecutive months, not only during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japan.- Japan\u2019s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has revealed that pachinko hall revenue fell 77.5 per cent year-on-year in May, to JPY66.58 billion (US$620.6 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Revenue from the popular gaming machines has been falling not only due to the month-and-a-half that halls were closed due to the Covid-19 lockdown in April and mid-May 2020. The numbers have been falling for the past 11 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Revenue in March was only 80.4 per cent of that in March 2019, and in April it plunged 38.2 per cent year-on-year, IAG reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pachinko halls <strong><em><a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/pachinko-reopen-japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">began to reopen<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in some areas of Japan by May 11, with those in larger cities like Osaka and Tokyo remaining closed for longer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/japan-survey-up-to-1-2-have-gambling-problems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A recent survey<\/a><\/em><\/strong> conducted in Japan found that pachinko and pachislo games still account for the largest gambling spend in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaming revenue from pachinko machines has been dropping for the last 11 consecutive months, not only during the 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":"Pachinko hall revenue in Japan experienced a significant 77.5% year-on-year decline in May, reaching JPY66.58 billion (US$620.6 million), as reported by Japan\u2019s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. This marks the eleventh consecutive month of revenue decrease, exacerbated but not solely caused by the COVID-19 lockdowns, indicating a deeper, sustained market contraction despite pachinko and pachislo remaining the largest gambling spend in the country.","focusai_entities":"Japan\u2019s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, IAG","focusai_location":"Japan, Osaka, Tokyo","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Pachinko market recovery?","query":"What are the projected recovery timelines and potential structural changes for the Japanese pachinko market, considering the pre-pandemic decline and current economic pressures?"},{"label":"Impact on IR development?","query":"How might the sustained decline in the pachinko sector influence the capital allocation and regulatory appetite for integrated resort (IR) development in Japan?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[470,11559,21630],"class_list":["post-8112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-japan","tag-pachinko","tag-revenues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112","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=8112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20983,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112\/revisions\/20983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}