Pachinko
The pachinko (パチンコ) is an apparatus which one can describe like a crossing between a Flipper and a Machine with under. He would have been invented shortly after the Second world war with Nagoya. Rooms of pachinko then transfer the day in all the Japan, often beside a small number of machines with under. The country would count today approximately 15000 rooms of pachinko equipped with 2.000.000 of machines. Japanese on 4 would play there regularly.
The managers of room of pachinko are often of Korean origin and many are those which maintain the close relationships with the Yakuza .
Economic importance
The turnover of the pachinko is enormous since it is located at the third rank of the economy of the Japanese leisures behind the restaurant S and the tourism. Nakajima Kenkichi, the owner of the Heiwa company, manager of 30% of the rooms of pachinko of the country, was indicated " The richest man of the pays" in 1989 by the magazine Nikkei Venture and the 11th world fortune by the magazine Fortune in 1991.
Rules of the game
The players buy a great number of small metal balls which they insert in the machine. The only control which the player has is the speed to which the balls leave. The metal balls fall then on a vertical surface of play planted from many nails, sometimes without the touch, but occasionally they fall into certain holes and the machine starts a kind of machine with under having three wheels. If 3 identical symbols are obtained on the machine with under, the machine delivers a great number of balls, that the player will be able to use to continue to play or quite simply go to counter of the prices where it will be able to choose a price. The balls cannot be exchanged in currency according to the Japanese law, but the players can ask to exchange these batches against liquid in centers near the living room of pachinko . Such practices for the money plays are theoretically illegal in Japan, also, these exchanges benefit the yakuza especially. However, no arrest for such exchanges is currently known.The living rooms of pachinko share with the casinos the yelling colors, the odors of Tabac, the noise deafening and constant machines and the players taken of the hours by their play. The pachinko developed these last years and this in spite of the recession which took place in Japan at the end of the years 1990. However, it seems to have difficulties in attract new young people players.
See too
| Random links: | Province of Tak | El besarse a ser listo | Rozières-in-Beauce | Kind in the old Middle East | Not Pleasant, between the good and the evil | Episodes of Ferbac | Physique_solide |