Pachinko
Unfortunately titled, but somehow befitting the seedy nature of the business. Pachinko parlours are basically rows of slot machines where businessmen spend there remaining few waking hours (when not getting drunk on sake) safely shielded from their families inside these nasty Neon buildings, spending something hideous like 20 percent of disposable household income!
"When you travel through the countryside of Europe or Southeast Asia, you notice that the highest point of any village is always a church steeple, a mosque, or the soaring eaves of a Buddhist temple. In the Japanese countryside, however, the tallest and most ostentatious building is invariably a Pachinko parlour" Kerr 1994
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