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Re:On the Trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'Evaporated People' by freetime2 on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @12:00AM (#35971094)
It’s actually decreased pretty significantly since 2015. In 2021 the amount spent was 14.6 trillion. But yes, still an enormous amount of money and time spent at pachinko halls.

https://www.statista.com/topics/7427/pachinko-in-japan/#topi...

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Re:On the Trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'Evaporated People' by blueblimp on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @12:31AM (#35971270)
I wonder how much of that comes from gacha games filling a similar role.
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Re:On the Trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'Evaporated People' by majikaja on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @10:08AM (#35975423)
Probably this is gross amount and not net? People pay in 14.6 trillion and get back 13 trillion or something.
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Re:On the Trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'Evaporated People' by freetime2 on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @01:34PM (#35978628)
The source I linked says “net sales”.
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Re:On the Trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'Evaporated People' by majikaja on Friday May 19, 2023 @05:34AM (#35999614)
14.6t jpy is about 3% of GDP. There are about 7m pachinko players in Japan - 10% of Japan's working population.

Doesn't that mean they are losing 30%~ of their pre-tax income on this? Keep in mind that pachinko players often aren't that particularly wealthy, so more than 30% really.

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