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Mei Nanaumi says she has no regrets about leaving her former husband who was addicted to gambling and was violent toward her.
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Nov 9, 2026
Gyan-tsuma: How one woman discovered her husband’s gambling addiction
Mei Nanaumi’s experience led her to find an online community of gyan-tsuma — wives grappling with their spouses’ gambling.
Tax authorities ordered two organizations that operate addiction rehabilitation facilities to pay penalties for aggravated tax evasion after their head improperly diverted a total of about ?110 million in organizational funds for personal use.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 6, 2026
Drug addict rehabilitation facility head accused of siphoning ?110 million
The man is believed to have had the organizations pay him under the guise of living expenses that was then used for personal purposes.
Malik Beasley arrives at Brooklyn Federal Court for his gambling hearing in New York on July 1.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Oct 28, 2026
Former NBA guard Malik Beasley to plead guilty in U.S. betting case
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York alleges that Beasley manipulated his statistics in certain categories in at least four games to benefit gamblers.
Aided by supportive policies under U.S. President Donald Trump's second administration, the predictions market industry, including Polymarket, has surged over the past two years.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 28, 2026
U.S. agency is again probing if Polymarket broke 2022 settlement, sources say
The agency is examining Polymarket’s controls for determining where customers are located, as well as its advertising activities in the U.S.
The number of people in Japan with loans from three or more moneylenders reached a 12-year high of 1.55 million at the end of fiscal 2025, as rising prices may be driving more people to borrow to cover living expenses.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 13, 2026
Number of multiple-debt borrowers in Japan hits 12-year high
At the end of fiscal 2025, 1.55 million people had three or more unsecured, unguaranteed loans from moneylenders.
A voter casts his ballot for the U.S. midterm elections in Akron, Ohio, on Monday. About 69% of Democrats and 61% of Republicans in a Reuters/Ipsos poll said they opposed using prediction markets to bet on election results.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 13, 2026
Most Americans oppose betting on elections and government events, poll finds
Some policymakers worry prediction markets could undermine faith in the integrity of U.S. democracy.
The Marina Bay Sands hotel and casino in Singapore
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 19, 2026
Singapore casino’s winning streak puts pressure on losing rival
Marina Bay Sands’ casino revenues for the first half of 2026 topped $2.1 billion, while Resorts World Sentosa’s comparable numbers were less than a third of that.
Visitors watch a water fountain show outside the Wynn Macao casino resort in December 2024.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 7, 2026
Macao casinos hit by slump as China crackdown rattles market
The slump ends 16 straight months of growth and comes as Beijing steps up efforts to stem capital outflow.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission proposes setting moral boundaries for some prediction markets — which allow users to place ?yes/no wagers ?on such things as sports, elections, economic outcomes and Wall ?Street indices, among other events.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 28, 2026
Trump administration’s proposed prediction market rule faces public pushback
Opponents argue that sports wagering on prediction markets amounts to illegal gambling that should be under the control of local authorities.
Apps like Miraima allow users to wager on real-world events and win points that can be converted into monetary rewards such as gift cards.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Jun 29, 2026
Prediction markets emerge in Japan, with shopping vouchers
New homegrown startups are finding ways to skirt regulations.
Traffic moves past the Iranian national flag displayed on a building at Enghelab square in Tehran on Sunday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 16, 2026
Polymarket traders clash over $345 million Iran peace market
Bets on a peace deal are in limbo because it was not clear if the announcement was enough to meet the conditions written into Polymarket’s contracts.
Claw machines at an arcade center in a shopping mall in Hong Kong on May 11
ASIA PACIFIC
May 31, 2026
‘Totally hooked’: Hong Kong targets claw machine addiction
Claw machine operators have been able to expand largely unrestricted after a court ruled in 2022 they are not required to possess public entertainment licenses.
Nine anonymous cryptocurrency wallets have effectively gained control over who wins and loses on Polymarket’s most contested prediction market bets.
BUSINESS / Markets
May 29, 2026
Nine crypto whales dominate Polymarket disputes worth billions
Under Polymarket’s rules, whenever the outcome of a bet faces an official challenge, the dispute goes to a vote among holders of UMA, an independent cryptocurrency.
Polymarket, the global prediction market platform based in New York, sees Japan as a large untapped business opportunity.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 22, 2026
Polymarket is said to seek Japan market approval in global push
Polymarket enables users to bet on the outcomes of real-world events, such as elections, using cryptocurrencies.
Judge Akifumi Morimoto is suspected of accessing an online casino site more than 60,000 times and engaging in gambling from April to September 2023.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 14, 2026
今日吃瓜 top court seeks judge’s dismissal over his suspected online gambling
The Akita District Public Prosecutors Office indicted the judge on suspicion of accessing an online casino site more than 60,000 times and gambling from April to September 2023.
Oscar Bishop, ambassador of the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation
BUSINESS / Tech
May 11, 2026
Africa’s CEOs warn online gambling is draining customer wallets
Africa’s growing gambling use is sapping income that would ordinarily be flowing into groceries, entertainment and mobile phone bills.
Prediction markets are touted on social media as a lucrative side hustle, but in reality, most traders are losing money.
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 28, 2026
Most prediction market traders are losing money while bots rack up gains
Among the winners, a majority of the profits were raked in by a tiny slice of what look to be automated bots.
Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is escorted at Downtown Manhattan Heliport in New York City on Jan. 5.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 24, 2026
U.S. soldier charged with using classified info to bet on Maduro’s capture
Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a 38-year-old special forces soldier, allegedly made more than $400,000 trading on Polymarket’s prediction market.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese delivers an address to the nation over the Iran crisis on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Apr 2, 2026
Australia hits gambling advertising, but advocates say not hard enough
The government’s attempt to appease public health concerns are falling short of measures recommended ?by its own inquiry.
An electronic sphere displays wagers at a Polymarket pop-up bar in Washington on March 20.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 30, 2026
Event wagers face $143 million insider problem as war bets boom
A flurry of well-timed trades tied to U.S. decisions on Iran has renewed scrutiny of prediction markets.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
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‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
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