JAPAN Law and Practice Contributed by: Masayuki Fukuda, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
6.2 B2B Licences (Suppliers, Software, Etc) No such licences are available. 6.3 Affiliates There is no applicable information in this jurisdiction. 6.4 White Labels There is no applicable information in this jurisdiction. 6.5 Technical Measures There is no applicable information in this jurisdiction. 7. Responsible Gambling (RG), Also Known as Safer Gambling (SG) 7.1 RG Requirements Since a casino business licence is a privilege, the licensed casino business operator shall have high standards of ethics and integrity and shall take meas- ures necessary to ensure responsible gambling. The Basic Law on Measures Against Gambling Addic- tion was enacted in July 2018 and became effective in October 2018. Under such law, the national gov- ernment made the Master Plan for Facilitating Gam- bling Addiction Measures on 19 April 2019. Thereafter, Osaka Prefecture made the 1st term plan for facilitat- ing gambling addiction measures in March 2020 and the 2nd term plan for facilitating gambling addiction measures in March 2023. In order to prevent addiction to casino gaming, a casino business operator must take the following measures: • a measure for restricting the use of casino facilities by a visitor upon request from the visitor them- selves, their family, or other persons concerned; • a measure for restricting the use of casino facilities by a person who is found to be inappropriate to use casino facilities in order to prevent the harmful effects of addiction to casino gaming; • a measure for establishing the necessary systems to appropriately respond to consultation on the use of casino facilities by visitors and other measures for helping visitors to make an appropriate decision on the use of casino facilities; and
• other measures necessary for preventing addiction to casino gaming as specified by the rules of the Commission. To ensure these measures are taken appropriately, the casino business operator must take the following measures: • education and training of its employees; • improvement of systems to accurately implement the above measures, including the appointment of: (a) persons who exercise overall control over the services necessary for accurately implementing the above measures; and (b) persons who audit the relevant services; • evaluations of the above measures; and • other measures specified by the rules of the Com- mission. In addition, a casino business operator and its employ- ees shall comply with the Regulations on Prevention of Addiction (which will be attached to the application for a casino business licence). To ensure responsible gambling, a casino business operator must not allow the following persons to enter its casino facilities or stay therein, except for the cases specified by the relevant Cabinet order: • a person who does not pay the national admission fee (JPY3,000 per entry) or the local admission fee (JPY3,000 per entry); • a person, other than a non-resident foreigner, who has entered the casino gaming operation area three times in the past seven days; or • a person, other than a non-resident foreigner, who has entered the casino ten times in the past 28 days. For implementing such entry restriction, a casino busi- ness operator shall confirm the identity of visitors each time upon their entry into, and exit from, the casino gaming operation area. To ensure responsible gambling, a casino business operator shall also take measures necessary for:
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