Walk down essentially any commercial street in essentially any Japanese city on essentially any weekday evening in 2026 and you will pass at least one building emitting a distinctive electronic clatter — the specific sound of thousands of small steel balls cascading simultaneously through the vertical pin fields of arcade-style gambling machines that Japanese law [...] The post Japan’s pachinko parlors, at their 1994 peak, generated more revenue every year than the country’s entire automobile export industry — and roughly 80 percent of them are owned by ethnic Koreans, whose grandparents were brought to Japan as workers during the colonial occupation of Korea appeared first on Space Daily .
Japan’s pachinko parlors, at their 1994 peak, generated more revenue every year than the country’s entire automobile export industry — and roughly 80 percent of them are owned by ethnic Koreans, whose grandparents were brought to Japan as workers during the colonial occupation of Korea
