1.   Although the number of people visiting pachinko parlors has declined, the amount of money collected by the owners has more than doubled in the past four years.

2.   And many places of entertainment, from pachinko parlors and bars to hot baths, maintain a Japanese-only policy.

3.   He frequented pachinko parlors to cheer himself up, and he went to loan sharks to borrow money.

4.   If the government does crack down, it could begin searching luggage headed for North Korea and looking closely at transfers of money and proceeds from pachinko parlors.

5.   In hall number six, between a dozen Personal Handyphone System girls and the pachinko parlor of the future, was the Internet Cafe.

6.   Last summer, five-year old Yurika Oyama was hit by a car and died in the doorway of the pachinko parlor where her mother was playing.

7.   Now a pachinko parlor occupies the spot where the martyrs died.

8.   Several of those who join the bordello are Japanese, imported from Kyoto, where they exposed themselves to blackmail by their addiction to gambling in pachinko parlors.

9.   So some coupons can be spent at brothels and nightclubs or gambling at pachinko parlors and mahjong tables.

10.   The Mainichi newspaper said criminal groups are forging and selling pre-paid cards for use in gambling houses, or pachinko parlors.