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Japan asks overseas to block online casino sites targeting nation


Japan has asked eight countries and regions to block its residents from accessing licensed online casino websites, a government source said Monday.

File photo taken at the National Police Agency in Tokyo in March 2025 shows an email from an online casino urging users to deposit money. Japan has engaged with Canada, Costa Rica, Georgia, Malta, Anjouan Island in the Comoros, Curacao of the Netherlands and the Isle of Man and Gibraltar, both British territories, the source said. An analysis of 40 online casino sites available in Japanese found that all operators were licensed, with around 70 percent registered in Curacao, a Dutch island territory in the Caribbean.

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