japanese men: Even the government's own health ministry reports that more than 5.36 million Japanese suffer from some sort of gambling addiction, and while groups like Gamblers Anonymous say that passage of the casino bill will provide the government with an incentive to tackle the problem, in order to do so the LDP would first need to acknowledge its source, according to The Japan Times. According to the magazine Big Issue, 93 percent of Japanese men who say they gamble cite pachinko as their main form of betting recreation. However, the problems that always prevented the bills from advancing in the past have not gone away, the biggest one being Japan's perceived penchant for gambling addiction. The problem is, pachinko is not legally recognized as a form of gambling. As long as winning at some game is not directly compensated with cash, it doesn't qualify as gambling, or tobaku, which is controlled under the Criminal Code. Strictly speaking, pachinko, a mechanized game based on a crude, vertical species of pinball, is characterized as entertainment yugi in the eyes of the law.
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