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Will Online Slots Come to Japan?

Ah, the land of the rising sun. Japan is home to every technology company under the sun, and a vast empire of schoolgirl fetish porn, but –to date- no online slot machines. Actually, make that no online gambling of any kind. Like the United States, Japan currently has laws in place prohibiting citizens from gambling with money on the World Wide Web. Unlike the United States, the political pendulum in Japan is actually swinging back towards legalizing the industry, instead of making restrictions even more draconian.

Horse racing and lotteries are currently permitted (and very popular) in Japan. Lately, there has been much talk from lawmakers suggesting that legalized online gambling may be a very strong option for helping to alleviate some deficits in the national budget. Obviously, the taxation that would come along with legalized internet slot machines, poker, blackjack, et cetera is a very attractive prospect. That’s not to mention the nationally-generated revenues that would roll in as a result of regulation. Most other first-world nations have beneficial laws in place with regards to the industry, and Japan is considering modeling some of them. As one of the nations with the highest gross domestic products in the world, Japan could only further its standing with carefully-considered online gambling.

The earliest that online gambling could be made legal in Japan would be 2010, but experts are really urging the country’s ruling party to think long and hard about exactly how they would prefer to implement such a big policy change. The virtue of honor is a HUGE deal in Japan, and must be considered above everything else.

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