Push for Japanese casinos comes with high financial and political stakes
"Promotion" law permitting casinos "in principle" passes Parliament's lower house after revisions in upper house
Tokyo
JAPANESE Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government is playing a very high stakes game in its push to legalise casinos in Japan, with not only huge sums of direct and tourism-related income involved, but also with the risk of a political backlash against gambling addiction and organised crime.
Some very high-level political figures, in Japan and also in the US, appear to have been involved either directly or indirectly in the move to get Japan into the casino "game" - which ended with a law finally being passed in the early hours of Thursday, against strenuous opposition
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