30 Percent of Online Gambling Beginners in Japan Indebted within Week

From Jiji

March 15 2025

TOKYO – About 30 pct of first-time users in Japan of offshore online casinos became indebted within a week after starting gambling at the sites, a Japanese survey has shown. 
   “I’m astonished at the speed,” said Noriko Tanaka, representative director of the Society Concerned about the Gambling Addiction.
   “We need drastic measures, such as cutting off access from Japan” to foreign online casino services, she emphasized.
   In Japan, professional baseball players and show business people were found to have played online gambling, causing controversy as the illegality of the practice was not widely known.
   The Tokyo-based society conducted the internet questionnaire survey on 93 men in their 10s to 50s who had received support from the organization. All of them gave their answers.