Place your bets
Casinos are popping up all over Asia. Their biggest risk is political
KABUKICHO, Japan’s biggest fleshpot, swarms over a crowded one-kilometre block of Tokyo. It is a gaudy patchwork of clubs, massage parlours and seedy hotels, a short walk from what is probably the world’s busiest train station. Hoodlums from Yakuza crime gangs tout illicit thrills from a well-thumbed menu of sex, drugs and gambling.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Place your bets”
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