- ARAB NEWS
- 01 May 2025
Since 1975
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stressed the need to crack down on online casinos at a session of the Diet, Japan’s parliament, Wednesday.
“(Online casinos) are illegal, and ministries and agencies must work together to clamp down on them strictly,” Kishida told a meeting of the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber, in response to a question from Issei Yamagishi of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.
The comment came after the suspect in an incident in which 46.3 million yen in COVID-19 relief funds were mistakenly paid to him by the town of Abu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, claimed that he spent the money on online gambling.
JIJI Press
