If you’ve ever been to Japan, you’ve doubtlessly seen the curious, slightly fun yet vaguely creepy looking game parlors featuring contestants in a trance-like state smoking and playing what looks like a combination of a pinball game and slot machine.
In fact, Pachinko is a 28 trillion Yen industry yearly. This article from the Japan Times gets into Pachinko’s place in Japanese society, the fight for one company to get on the Japanese stock market, who is playing game, and its ties to North Korea.
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