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Re:On the Trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'Evaporated People' by resolutebat on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @11:53PM (#35971072)
The gambling component is also effectively illegal, because you can't win money from the games directly. You can, however, win tokens, which a little shop conveniently located right next to the pachinko parlor will buy off you in exchange for cold hard cash.

Like everything else in Japan, though, pachinko is also slowly dying off as the population ages, and the long-planned/long-delayed opening of actual casinos will also cause a big hut.

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Re:On the Trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'Evaporated People' by lmm on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @02:21AM (#35971870)
> pachinko is also slowly dying off as the population ages

Huh? Aren't old people the biggest audience for it?

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Re:On the Trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'Evaporated People' by worrycue on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @02:26AM (#35971895)
Current old people are the audience I guess. When they die off, the new generation of old people might not be so into it.
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Re:On the Trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'Evaporated People' by lmm on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @06:01PM (#35981817)
I see no grounds to assume that though. Bingo has been a notoriously old-people-thing for several generations at this point.
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Re:On the Trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'Evaporated People' by lhl on Friday May 19, 2023 @11:22PM (#36009088)
No need to make assumptions, the pachinko market has been continuously shrinking for decades: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1171592/japan-market-siz...
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