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Nearly half of all leisure time in japan is spent in pachinko parlours, and the industry hires more people than the country's top 10 car manufacturers. The first commercial parlor was opened in nagoya in. Japan allows betting on public sports (horse racing, bicycle racing, powerboat racing, and asphalt speedway motorcycle racing).

Pachinko originated in japan in the 1920s and is a cross between a pinball and slot machine.

Pachinko parlors are gaming arcades in japan where people go to try their luck at winning more balls than they bought. Patrons will spend hours staring at. The object of japanese pachinko is to fire balls that will then fall through a maze of metal pins. Tokyo alone boasts around 760 parlours and japan spends some $200 billion on the game every year.