Japan gambling regulation for operators
Online casinos and poker are illegal and prosecuted, for players as well as operators. The only lawful online betting is on the official sites of the public bodies for horse racing, bicycle, motorboat and auto racing, takarakuji and toto.
Product by product
No private operator can be licensed for any online gambling product in Japan; casinos are allowed only inside a certified integrated resort, and none is open or licensed yet.| Product | Status | Licensed by | Tax | Key restriction | Advertising |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online sports betting by private operators | Banned | None for private operators | None: no licence exists | Only public bodies may sell betting tickets (racing organisers, and the Japan Sport Council for toto); anyone else commits an offence. Betting on sport results with any other operator is gambling under Penal Code art. 185, for the player as well. Offshore sportsbooks serve players in Japan anyway, as foreign-licensed casinos do; betting with them is gambling for the player, and police pursue players, promoters and payment agents. | Banned for illegal sites (Basic Act art. 9-2, no penalty) |
| Online casino and live casino | Banned | None for private operators; the IR casino licence covers a physical facility only | None: no licence exists | A crime for operator and player even if licensed abroad (Penal Code arts. 185-186). Foreign-licensed operators still serve players in Japan; in 2025 the police recorded 165 online-gambling cases (150 of them players). No power to block sites yet (MIC report 22 Jul 2026); the tools are deletion requests, app-store removals and payment measures. | Banned: presenting or guiding to illegal sites (Basic Act art. 9-2, no penalty); affiliates have been arrested |
| Online slots | Banned | None for private operators | None: no licence exists | Online slots are a crime (Penal Code art. 185). Land-based, electronic games are one of the ten permitted casino-act types in a licensed IR casino (none open); pachislot machines are allowed in pachinko halls, each permitted by the prefectural public safety commission. | As for Online sports betting by private operators |
| Online poker | Banned | None for private operators | None: no licence exists | Online poker is a crime (Penal Code art. 185). Table poker is allowed only inside a licensed IR casino, which is land-based and not yet open. Foreign-licensed sites offer it to players in Japan anyway, under the same enforcement as online casino. | As for Online sports betting by private operators |
| Public racing, takarakuji and toto | State monopoly | Statutory public bodies (JRA, prefectures and cities, Japan Sport Council) | No operator tax; JRA pays the Treasury 10% of net betting sales plus half its annual surplus | Closed to private licences. Private firms may sell only as entrusted sellers under contract with the organiser. Prize pools: takarakuji at most half of sales. | Allowed under a voluntary public sports guideline; caution line required in each ad; sign-up points up to 1,000 yen |
| Land-based casino (integrated resort) | Limited | Casino Regulatory Commission; none licensed yet | 15% national + 15% local of casino gross revenue; entry levy JPY 3,000 + 3,000 | Only inside a certified integrated resort, at most three plans, one casino facility per district. Osaka is the only certified plan, targeted to open around autumn 2030; the next application window runs from 6 May to 5 Nov 2027. | Allowed within IR Act art. 106: no false claims, no billboards or leaflets outside the IR district, no soliciting under-20s |
Will Japan be able to block offshore casino sites?
Not yet. No Act gives the Government or internet providers a power to block illegal online casino sites. On 22 Jul 2026 the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' study group asked the Government to keep its measures going, check their effect and not rule out blocking, and said that blocking would need a law; no bill has been tabled. For now the tools are deletion requests through the Internet Hotline Center, removal of the sites' apps from the iOS and Android stores, and payment measures, and the report found access to the sites largely unchanged. Since 25 Sep 2025, presenting an illegal site or guiding people to one is banned (Basic Act art. 9-2), with no penalty.
MIC study group final report ↗National Police Agency: online casinos are a crime ↗
Regulator and player protection in Japan
Heads-up for operators
5 items · last change 9 Oct 2026
Casino (land-based): at most three Integrated Resort area plans may be certified (IR Implementation Act art. 9(11)(vii)). Only Osaka is certified (14 April 2023); a second application window for further plans runs from 6 May to 5 November 2027 (Cabinet Order No. 365 of 2020 as amended by Order No. 31 of 2026). The Osaka casino is not open and is targeted for around autumn 2030, and the Casino Regulatory Commission's list of updates to 2 October 2026 records no casino licence. Online: the final report of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications study group (22 July 2026) did not recommend blocking offshore casino sites yet; it asks the government to keep up its measures and not to rule blocking out, and says a blocking power would need a law setting who blocks what. No bill had been tabled in the 221st Diet session.
Osaka integrated resort targeted to open
Osaka's IR area plan was certified on 14 April 2023; the operator targets opening around autumn 2030. No casino licence has been issued yet.
Source: 1Checked 9 Oct 2026
Second Application Window for IR Area Plans
A second window for applications to certify IR area plans runs from 6 May to 5 November 2027 (Cabinet Order No. 365 of 2020 as amended by Order No. 31 of 2026). Two further plans could still be certified under the cap of three.
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A public consultation has been opened for a draft cabinet order that proposes to amend part of the Act on Control and Improvement of Amusement Businesses, etc.
「風俗営業等の規制及び業務の適正化等に関する法律施行令の一部を改正する政令案」に対する意見の募集について
Source: 3
Police Enforcement Against Online Gambling
National Police Agency statistics record 165 online gambling cases and 317 persons in 2025, covering players, promoters, affiliates and payment agents.
Source: 4
Not yet in force: drafts, laws adopted without a start date, and sections of the law still to be commenced. An item moves to the timeline below on the day it takes effect.
Getting licensed: no online licence route
Gambling tax: 15% + 15% of casino gross revenue (land-based, none open)
No tax applies to a licensed online operator, because none can be licensed. Casino (land-based, none open): a national payment of 15% and a payment to the certified prefecture or city of 15%, each on monthly casino gross revenue (chips received from customers less chips issued to them, plus profit from play among customers; IR Implementation Act arts. 192 and 193), due by the 15th of the next month; a negative month is floored at zero and deducted from later months. The national payment also carries an amount the Commission sets for its supervisory costs, not yet set. Entry levies of JPY 3,000 plus JPY 3,000 per 24-hour period (re-entry within 24 hours is free) are collected by the operator and remitted monthly.
- Corporate tax
- 23.2% above JPY 8 million of annual income, plus the 4% defence special corporate tax from fiscal years beginning on or after 1 April 2026.
- Consumption tax
- the ordinary input-tax credit does not apply to purchases booked to the casino business except where casino income is small relative to taxable sales (Special Measures Act art. 86-6); the rate on betting receipts was not read.
- Public sports
- the JRA pays the treasury 10% of net betting sales plus half of its annual surplus (JRA Act art. 27); local racing and boat racing pay statutory grants; the takarakuji prize pool may not exceed 50% of sales.
Japan's gambling tax next to neighbours and nearby markets
Each bar is the headline operator tax as that country's own page states it, for Japan, the nearest other markets (marked “nearby”) that tax gross gaming revenue. Hover or tap a bar to see what it is made of.
Which foreign licences Japan accepts
Japan recognises none of these 8 foreign licences.
A licence from here is not recognised in Japan. The IR Implementation Act recognises no foreign licence, and online casino play is a crime for the operator and the player even where the casino is lawful in its own country (National Police Agency). Japan has no power to block the sites; offering them to players in Japan is what is prohibited.
Malta (MGA) · United Kingdom (UKGC) · Gibraltar (GRA) · Isle of Man (GSC) · Alderney (AGCC) · Kahnawake (KGC) · Anjouan (AGB)
Curaçao (CGB)
Foreign-licensed operators of every origin serve players in Japan, and the police pursue players, operators, affiliates and payment agents.
Bonus rules: welcome bonuses restricted
Online casino bonuses cannot be advertised lawfully, because advertising and guiding people to illegal online gambling is barred (Basic Act art. 9-2) and no online casino can be licensed. For the lawful public-sports bodies, the organisers' guideline limits sign-up and purchase points. For a land-based casino (none open), casino-related premiums must not meet the Commission's criteria for harming public morals. No rule on wagering requirements was found.
- Welcome bonus
- Restricted
- Loyalty schemes
- Restricted
- online slots
- casino table games
- non-public sports betting
On lawful online betting (public sports), sign-up points of up to JPY 1,000 and purchase points of up to 1% (5% on special races) are allowed under the January 2026 public-sports guideline. Bonuses at foreign online casinos come with a crime: playing there from Japan is gambling under the Penal Code.
- Channels off-limits
- Links and recommendation-list sites that present or guide people to an online casino
- Social media posts and recruiting lines such as 'register here'
- Video-sharing promotion by streamers and influencers
- Unsolicited messages that guide unspecified persons in Japan to illegal online gambling
- Messages ads may not give
- Public-sports guideline: expressions about cashing out payouts
- Public-sports guideline: expressions suggesting large payouts or profit
- Public-sports guideline: expressions implying that winning is remarkably easy
- Public-sports guideline: expressions that overstress whether a ticket wins or loses
- Mandatory disclaimer
Public sports: a caution such as 'enjoy in moderation' and 'tickets only from age 20' on every advertisement in the main media. Casino (land-based, none open): advertising must state that under-20s may not enter and carry the warning that casino use can interfere with daily or social life. None for online casinos, which cannot be advertised.
- Placement rule
- Public sports: set seconds or point sizes per medium (television 1.5 to 2.0 seconds; newspaper and magazine 10.5 or 14 point; poster 14 or 20 point).
- Penalties
Basic Act art. 9-2 has no penalty of its own. Players: a fine of up to JPY 500,000 (Penal Code art. 185) or, for habitual gambling, up to 3 years' imprisonment (art. 186(1)). Running a gambling place for profit: 3 months to 5 years' imprisonment (art. 186(2)). Casino advertising breaches (land-based): up to 1 year's imprisonment or a fine of up to JPY 1 million (IR Implementation Act art. 239(1)(xxvii)).
Public sports: a sign-up reward may be advertised only within the guideline's annex (points on joining up to JPY 1,000 in value, with advertising urging moderation); purchase points are limited to 1% of the amount of tickets bought (5% for a short campaign on a special race) and visit points to JPY 500 per organiser per day. Free bets and free spins as such are not mentioned. Casino (land-based): premiums connected with casino play must not meet the Commission's criteria for harming public morals (IR Implementation Act art. 108(1)). The revised Public Sports Advertising and Promotion Guideline took effect on 1 February 2026, and Odds Park announced on 4 February 2026 that it is ending its points programme (operator statement).
| Date | Operator | Violation | Penalty | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Two operators of an online casino introduction site | Running a website that introduced overseas online casinos and invited readers to gamble | Arrest for aiding habitual gambling | National Police Agency: 2025 statistics on vice and gambling offences (major cases, pp. 24-25) |
| January 2025 | Four promoters of an overseas online casino (Okayama prefectural police) | Advertising the casino through video-sharing sites and gambling with viewers | Arrest for habitual gambling | National Police Agency: 2025 statistics on vice and gambling offences (major cases, pp. 24-25) |
Advertising: limited
Japan's gambling advertising divides sharply. For online casino and other illegal online gambling, advertising is banned: since 25 September 2025 Basic Act art. 9-2 bars presenting such a site to people in Japan or guiding them to it, without a penalty of its own, and police have arrested promoters and affiliates under the Penal Code. For public sports (horse, bicycle, motorboat and auto racing) advertising is permitted under the organisers' voluntary guideline. For a casino inside an Integrated Resort (land-based, none open), IR Implementation Act art. 106 bans false or exaggerated claims and billboards and leaflets outside the IR district.
| Channel | Status | Vertical & Platform Split (2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Google Search Ads | Restricted | No search-advertising rule was found. Online casino: banned by Basic Act art. 9-2, which covers anyone transmitting information on the internet. Google is one of five main platforms (with LINE Yahoo, Meta, TikTok and X) that told the ministry in November 2025 that they treat posts guiding people to online casinos as prohibited. Public sports: permitted, with the guideline's caution in video advertisements for at least 1.5 to 2.0 seconds and in a clearly legible size in still images.5711 |
| App Store Publishing | Restricted | Basic Act art. 9-2 bans presenting an illegal online gambling website or program to people in Japan, or guiding them to one; after it took effect the apps of the main online casino sites could no longer be downloaded on iOS or Android, while access to the sites themselves showed no large change (MIC report, 22 July 2026).511 |
| Meta (FB/IG) | Restricted | Online casino: banned. The National Police Agency treats posting a casino link, or a recruiting line such as 'register here', on social media as prohibited, and Meta told the ministry in November 2025 that it treats such posts as prohibited. Across all platforms, between 25 September and 31 December 2025 the Internet Hotline Center analysed 2,789 guiding items as illegal, sent 2,542 deletion requests and confirmed 558 deleted five business days later. Public sports: permitted, with a caution on social media advertisements.6711 |
| TV & Radio | Restricted | Public sports: permitted, with a caution line ('enjoy in moderation', 'tickets only from age 20') held for at least 1.5, 1.75 or 2.0 seconds on television depending on the length of the advertisement, narrated on radio (except for advertisements of 20 seconds or less), and no advertising in children's programmes. Online casino: Basic Act art. 9-2 is limited to information transmitted on the internet, and no broadcast-specific rule was found. Casino (land-based, none open): only billboards and leaflets outside the IR district are banned, so the content rules of art. 106 apply to television.578 |
| Sponsorships | Restricted | No rule on sponsorship by gambling businesses, or on gambling logos on uniforms or in stadiums, was found, and the public-sports guideline leaves image-building content outside its scope. A sponsor logo that presents or links to an illegal online casino would fall under Basic Act art. 9-2.57 |
| Digital OOH | Restricted | Public sports: outdoor and transit advertising is permitted but must not take up space excessively. Casino (land-based, none open): displaying advertising signs and boards outside the IR district is banned, with up to 1 year's imprisonment or a fine of up to JPY 1 million. Online casino: no outdoor-specific rule; art. 9-2 covers internet transmission.578 |
| Affiliates and Influencers | Banned | Online casino: an affiliate or aggregator site that transmits the information is itself an addressee of Basic Act art. 9-2, and the National Police Agency lists a site that introduces the best online casinos with links as prohibited. Police arrested four video-site promoters in January 2025 for habitual gambling and two operators of an introduction site in August 2025 for aiding it. Some foreign operators' groups still run Japanese-language affiliate programmes (operator statement, March 2026). No affiliate-specific code applies to the public-sports bodies, whose guideline reaches the organisers and the businesses entrusted with their operations.567 |
Channel rules for Japan reflect each platform's published policy and the sources numbered in each row (listed under Methodology & sources). Verify with the local regulator and your ad-platform account manager before launching.
How Japan enforces against unlicensed operators
Enforcement is criminal and aimed at the whole chain, not at blocking: Japan has no statutory power to block sites, and the study group's report of 22 July 2026 asked only that blocking not be ruled out. In 2025 police recorded 165 online gambling cases and 317 persons, against 62 cases and 279 persons in 2024; the arrests covered players, video-site promoters, the operators of an introduction site and payment agents. The other tools are deletion requests through the Internet Hotline Center, removal of the sites' apps from the iOS and Android stores, and payment measures with banks, crypto-asset exchangers and card brands.
- Police statistics (2025): 165 online gambling cases and 317 persons; 158 cases and 221 persons were home-access cases, of which 150 cases and 196 persons were players and 8 cases and 25 persons operators, payment agents or affiliates.
- Affiliates and promoters (2025): four video-site promoters were arrested in January for habitual gambling, and two operators of an introduction site in August for aiding habitual gambling.
- Payment agents (February 2025): Osaka police arrested two persons for letting players deposit habitual-gambling proceeds into accounts in other people's names.
- Deletion requests (25 September to 31 December 2025): the Internet Hotline Center sent 2,542 deletion requests for guiding items and 447 for presenting sites; 558 and 43 were confirmed deleted five business days later.
- No blocking power: the study group of 22 July 2026 said blocking would need a law, and did not recommend it yet.
Enforcement cases in Japan: 5 recent
Material regulator actions, court rulings, and high-profile fines from 2016–2026 against operators serving Japan. Each entry includes the technical failure and a one-line read-across for other operators in the market.
- July 2026
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (study group)
Grey-MarketReport: blocking not decidedThe study group's final report asks the government to keep its comprehensive measures going and not to rule blocking out, and says that blocking would need a law. It found access to the main online casino sites largely unchanged after the Basic Act took effect.
Read-across: Sites cannot be blocked at present, so the exposure for operators and their partners in Japan is criminal, not technical.
- September 2025
Government of Japan (National Diet)
LicensingLaw in forceArt. 9-2 of the Basic Act bars anyone who transmits information on the internet from presenting an illegal online gambling website or program to people in Japan, or guiding them to one. The Act has no penalty clause.
Read-across: The Act addresses anyone who transmits information to unspecified persons, which reaches affiliates and influencers without naming them. Criminal exposure sits in the Penal Code, under which promoters and affiliates have been arrested.
- August 2025
Two operators of an online casino introduction site
Grey-MarketArrestArrested for aiding habitual gambling by running a website that introduced overseas online casinos and invited readers to gamble (Gifu police).
Read-across: Shows that affiliates can be charged as accessories under the Penal Code (art. 62(1)).
- February 2025
Payment agents (Osaka police)
Grey-MarketArrestTwo persons were arrested for letting players deposit habitual-gambling proceeds into accounts in other people's names.
Read-across: Payment intermediaries are pursued as criminal intermediaries, under the Organised Crime Punishment Act.
- January 2025
Four promoters of an overseas online casino (Okayama prefectural police)
Grey-MarketArrestArrested for habitual gambling after advertising an overseas online casino through video-sharing sites and gambling with viewers.
Read-across: Streamers and influencers who promote an offshore casino face arrest, not only the operator.
Licensed operators: none
As of 13 Oct 2026, no operator holds an active online licence in Japan.
Traps operators hit in Japan
Specific operational risks that have caught new entrants in this market. Each item is country-specific. Generic gambling-ops issues (KYC, RG tools) are not included unless they have a local twist.
Criminal Liability for All Participants
Japan's Penal Code criminalises the player (art. 185, fine up to JPY 500,000; habitual gambling, art. 186(1), up to 3 years' imprisonment) and the operator (running a gambling place for profit, art. 186(2), 3 months to 5 years). The National Police Agency says this applies even if the casino is lawful abroad, and the Ministry of Justice told the Diet on 4 April 2025 that art. 186 can reach an online operator that serves users in Japan where it is found to have opened a gambling place for profit in Japan. A foreign licence is not recognised and gives no defence.
Targeting of Payment and Affiliate Channels
The police pursue the chain around an offshore casino: payment agents are charged under the Organised Crime Punishment Act, affiliates and video-site promoters for habitual gambling or aiding it. Basic Act art. 9-2 (since 25 September 2025) separately bars presenting or guiding people to illegal sites, with no penalty of its own. In May 2025 banks, crypto-asset exchangers, fund transfer providers and prepaid issuers were asked to take measures, and card brands were told in July 2025 which card payments were used for online casinos.
Mistaking Pachinko for Tolerance of Gambling
Pachinko and pachislot halls are land-based amusement businesses permitted premises by premises by the prefectural public safety commission, and may not give cash or securities as prizes, buy prizes back or let customers take balls or medals out (Entertainment Business Act art. 23(1)). That regime says nothing about online play: online casino remains a crime.
Timeline: rules in force
- July 2026
Study Group Report on Blocking
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications study group's final report of 22 July 2026 did not recommend blocking yet; it asks the government not to rule it out and says it would need a law. No bill has been tabled.
Source: 11
- February 2026
Public-sports advertising guideline revised
The public-sports organisers' advertising and promotion guideline (January 2026 edition) took effect on 1 February 2026: limits on sign-up and purchase points and on the size and timing of caution messages.
Source: 13
- September 2025
Basic Act Ban on Presenting or Guiding to Illegal Online Gambling
Art. 9-2 of the Basic Act on Measures against Gambling Addiction took effect on 25 September 2025. It bars presenting illegal online gambling sites to people in Japan or guiding them to such sites and carries no penalty of its own.
Source: 5
- April 2023
Osaka IR Plan Certified
The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism certified the Osaka Yumeshima plan on 14 April 2023. The Kyushu-Nagasaki plan was refused on 27 December 2023 because the evidence of funding was insufficient.
Source: 14
- January 2020
Casino Regulatory Commission Provisions in Force
The IR Act provisions creating the Casino Regulatory Commission, a Cabinet Office commission, and the plan-certification procedure took effect on 7 January 2020.
Source: 8
- 2018
IR Implementation Act Enacted
Act No. 80 of 2018 (promulgated 27 July 2018) set the framework for casinos inside certified Integrated Resorts, in force in stages: 1 April 2019, 7 January 2020 for the Commission and plan provisions, and 19 July 2021 for the rest.
Source: 8
- 1907
Penal Code Enacted
The Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907) is the criminal base: gambling (art. 185), habitual gambling and running a gambling place (art. 186) and lotteries (art. 187). Its prison terms have read as kokin-kei (imprisonment) since 1 June 2025.
Source: 9
One change concerns land-based gambling only and is listed on our updates page; this page covers online gambling.
Operator myths vs reality in Japan
Common assumptions about gambling licensing that turn out to be wrong in practice.
- MythJapan is a 'grey market' where enforcement is lax.Reality
False. Online casino is a crime for the operator and the player, no licence is available, and the police pursued 165 online gambling cases and 317 persons in 2025, including operators, payment agents and affiliates (8 cases and 25 persons in the home-access category). Japan has no blocking power, so enforcement is criminal rather than technical.
- MythThe huge pachinko industry shows that the Japanese government is tolerant of gambling.
- MythThe main risk is having our website blocked; criminal penalties are unlikely.Reality
False. Japan has no statutory power to block sites; the risk is criminal. The Ministry of Justice told the Diet on 4 April 2025 that art. 186 of the Penal Code can reach an online operator serving users in Japan, up to 5 years' imprisonment for running a gambling place for profit, and affiliates and payment agents have been arrested.
Markets that work like Japan
Compared on what our records hold for each country: whether online casino, betting, poker and lottery are licensed, state-run or banned, the licensing model, what the operator tax is levied on and its band, how most advertising channels are treated, and how foreign licences are treated. A point we hold for only one of the two countries counts for nothing.
- MacaoChecked
Online casino and poker banned; betting limited; lottery licensed; licensed market; most ad channels restricted; foreign licences mostly banned.
- AzerbaijanChecked
Online casino and poker banned; betting limited; licensed market; most ad channels restricted; foreign licences mostly banned.
- TunisiaAI overview
Online casino and poker banned; betting limited; lottery licensed; tax on GGR; most ad channels restricted; foreign licences mostly banned.
- IsraelChecked
Online casino and poker banned; betting limited; lottery licensed; most ad channels restricted; foreign licences mostly banned.
- LiechtensteinChecked
Online casino and poker banned; betting limited; licensed market; most ad channels restricted.
Methodology & sources
The research behind our Japan coverage
Counted across every Japan page, not this page alone.
compiled 19 Oct 2026
Across every Japan page on this site: players, operators and the licence guide. The research report behind them cites official sources: the law, the regulator, the gazette, the courts and each platform’s own published advertising policy. Page sections not yet rewritten from the report may cite other sources.
The same research as a 53-page Japan report: every one of the 201 checklist questions, each answer cited to the instrument behind it.
Request the Japan reportOur Deep AI Scan took Japan through all 201 questions of our regulatory checklist, from 105 official documents, read on 19 Oct 2026. Our research team then traced every figure on this page to the document and sentence that states it. The full research report is due to go to our compliance team. Where a fact rests on a press report or a law-firm summary rather than an official document, the page says so.
Documents cited on this page
- 1MLIT document
- 2Cabinet Order No. 365 of 2020 as amended by Order No. 31 of 2026: IR application windows (e-Gov)
- 3Source
- 4National Police Agency: enforcement statistics 2025
- 5Basic Act on Measures against Gambling Addiction, as amended by Act No. 76 of 2025 (e-Gov)
- 6National Police Agency: gambling through online casinos is a crime
- 7Public Sports Advertising and Promotion Guideline, January 2026 edition
- 8IR Implementation Act, Act No. 80 of 2018 (e-Gov)
- 9Penal Code, Act No. 45 of 1907 (e-Gov)
- 10Odds Park Corp.: notice of 4 February 2026 on its points programme
- 11Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications: study group final report on online casino access suppression (22 July 2026)
- 12Act on Control and Improvement of Amusement Business, Act No. 122 of 1948 (e-Gov)
- 13Source
- 14MLIT public notice certifying the Osaka plan (14 April 2023)
The 10 documents this page relies on most
- Act on Development of Specified Integrated Resort Districts (IR Implementation Act, Act No. 80 of 2018), e-Gov consolidated text, current to 10 Jul 2026 (law id 430AC0000000080)Law
- Casino Regulatory Commission Enforcement Rules of the IR Implementation Act (Rule No. 1 of 2021, as amended to 1 Apr 2024), e-Gov text (law id 503M62000000001)Law
- Public Sports Advertising and Promotion Guideline (公営競技広告・宣伝指針), Jan 2026 edition, National Council of Public Sports OrganisersRegulator
- Basic Act on Measures against Gambling Addiction (Act No. 74 of 2018) as amended by Act No. 76 of 2025, e-Gov consolidated text (law id 430AC1000000074; human page https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/430AC1000000074)Law
- Order for Enforcement of the IR Implementation Act (Cabinet Order No. 72 of 2019), e-Gov text (law id 431CO0000000072)Law
- Order on fees under the IR Implementation Act (Cabinet Order No. 207 of 2021), e-Gov text (law id 503CO0000000207)Law
- Act on Lottery Tickets with Prizes (Act No. 144 of 1948), e-Gov consolidated text (law id 323AC0000000144)Law
- Horse Racing Act (Act No. 158 of 1948), e-Gov consolidated text (law id 323AC0000000158)Law
- Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907), e-Gov consolidated text (law id 140AC0000000045)Law
- Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds (Act No. 22 of 2007), e-Gov consolidated text (law id 419AC0000000022)Law
Also cited on this page
- jcrc.go.jp
- Osaka Prefecture: progress of the Osaka Yumeshima IR
- Act on Implementation of Sports Promotion Voting, Act No. 63 of 1998 (e-Gov)
- Income Tax Act, Act No. 33 of 1965 (e-Gov)
- National Tax Agency: Tax Answer No. 1490, occasional income
- Japan Tourism Agency: status of applications for area development plans (27 Apr 2022)
- MLIT public notice of the certification of the Osaka Yumeshima plan (14 Apr 2023, notice No. 66)
- Japan Tourism Agency: Kyushu-Nagasaki plan not certified (27 Dec 2023)
105 documents in all. Request the full research report for every source, answer by answer.