{"id":43472,"date":"2022-04-12T08:33:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T23:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/12\/japan-first-casino-osaka-backlash-gambling"},"modified":"2022-04-12T08:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T23:33:08","slug":"backlash-in-osaka-as-dream-island-leads-race-to-open-japans-first-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43472","title":{"rendered":"Backlash in Osaka as \u2018Dream Island\u2019 leads race to open Japan\u2019s first casino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns raised over development costs for \u2018integrated resort\u2019, as well as crime and gambling addiction<\/p>\n<p>The focus of Japan\u2019s quest to open its first casino is a human-made island in Osaka that, if the city\u2019s government gets its way, will end decades of wrangling over the country\u2019s fraught relationship with poker tables and slot machines.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent weekday morning there was little to suggest that Yumeshima \u2013 \u201cDream Island\u201d \u2013 could, by the end of the decade, be the site of an unprecedented experiment with gambling in the world\u2019s third biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/12\/japan-first-casino-osaka-backlash-gambling\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns raised over development costs for \u2018integrated resort\u2019, as well as crime and gambling addictionThe focus of Japan\u2019s quest to open its first casino is a human-made island in Osaka that, if the city\u2019s government gets its way, will end decades of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1730,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gambling","category-japan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43473,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43472\/revisions\/43473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}