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Japan ready to bet the house with green light for Osaka casino
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TOKYO – Three integrated resort (IR) licences up for grabs, two applications. But on Friday, there was just one winner.
Osaka, the largest city in western Japan’s Kansai region, won the country’s first approval to build a casino in a development that was never in doubt once political opposition was overcome.
