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• n  a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board

• Tellingly, Kazuki's dad owes his fortune to pachinko, an utterly mindless form of low-stakes gambling that annually rakes in some $250 billion, is linked to organized crime and .
• Income from North Korean-owned business ventures in Japan (including pachinko parlors) has plunged, according to Japanese intelligence and media reportsa casualty of Japan's .
• It's Friday night in Ikebukuro, a Tokyo entertainment district full of cheap bars and pachinko parlors.

News & Articles

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• Kinbasha Gaming International, Inc. Announces Milestone Financial Results for Fiscal Year 2013
  Kinbasha Gaming International, Inc. , owner and operator of retail pachinko gaming centers in Japan, has filed its annual report on Form 10-K with the SEC and released its financial results for its fiscal ...
  July 2, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Emperor Hirohito in Bloomberg
  There are many companies in the red -- automobile makers, electronics and so on,said Hirohito Niji, an analyst at Standard & Poor's in Tokyo. "Against that, pachinko hasn't really felt the effects."
• St Timothy in MTV.com
  I used to play pachinko many years ago, but that stopped when I started swimming. Simply swimming without thinking about anything except how demanding it was had a similar effect to the stress relief I got from pachinko, which enabled me to escape... Shigeru Miyamoto http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNErfSj9owOotVt0TuKVCYARmmWMNw PC World http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,142414-c,games/article.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFtwJV_t4aV1HfKn0MpTsvY_jolpw Feb 13, 2008 71544 95566 pachinko I get many e-mails from Japanese readers whose own grandparents are addicted to pachinko gambling," Timothy said. "Many write that they are going to try to get their grandparents console systems as a substitute, and they use Grandma as an...