Japan Casino Bill Set to Pass Next Month, Lawmaker Says
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A Japanese lawmaker backing a bill to legalize casinos said he expects it to win lower-house approval next month and that the gambling resorts would be in major cities and charge locals an entry fee.
“We want to finish up in the lower house in the first half of October and send it on to the upper house,” Koichi Hagiuda, secretary-general of a lawmaker’s group promoting the casino bill and an aide to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said in an interview yesterday.