Editorial

15:55 JST, February 12, 2025

There is no end to young people and others who casually gamble in online casinos through their smartphones and get in over their head. The fact that such casinos are illegal in Japan should be made well known to people and efforts to identify both operators and users should be strengthened.

The police have referred to prosecutors Koki Niwa, a bronze medalist on the Japanese men’s table tennis team at the Tokyo Olympics, for allegedly gambling by accessing an overseas online casino site from within Japan. Niwa is suspected of placing bets using crypto assets as a source of funds.

Niwa was quoted as saying that he used the casino after seeing online ads, and that he was “unaware that it was illegal.”

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