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Gambling, IT, booze addictions rife in Japan: study

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Nearly five percent of Japanese adults are addicted to gambling, a rate of up to five times that of most other nations, according to a study.

AFP

Researchers estimated that roughly 5.36 million people in Japan -- 4.8 percent of the adult population -- are likely pathological gamblers who cannot resist the impulse to wager, the Yomiuri Shimbun said.
The study said 8.7 percent of men and 1.8 percent of women fit the internationally-accepted definition of addicts, according to the Mainichi Shimbun.
The wide availability of pachinko parlours -- loud, colourful salons that offer rows of pinball-like games -- and other gambling establishments is believed to be contributing to the problem.
The ratio of compulsive gamblers in most nations stands more or less around one percent of the adult population. So Japans ratio is high, a member of the study group told reporters, according to the Nikkei newspaper.
The study questioned 7,000 Japanese adults nationwide, of whom 4,153 gave valid answers.
Around 4.21 million adults are believed to show signs of Internet addiction, the study found, a rate that had risen 50 percent in five years, the Nikkei said.
More than a million people were believed to be addicted to alcohol, compared with an estimated 830,000 people a decade ago, the Mainichi said.
Gambling, IT, booze addictions rife in Japan: study
Gambling, IT, booze addictions rife in Japan: study
Gambling, IT, booze addictions rife in Japan: study
Gambling, IT, booze addictions rife in Japan: study
Gambling, IT, booze addictions rife in Japan: study
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