Anybody got a spare ¥300,000?

[jwegger]

Japan's Pachinko Industry 2006
Analysis of Pachinko industry structure and trends with latest data for understanding rapidly changing industry.

Link is to the publishers page and shows the table of contents from the 100 page report. Lots of intersting data in the Table of contents alone.

Japan’s Pachinko Industry 2006 is a comprehensive English resource book on the current pachinko industry in Japan. It provides you with a full picture of the market by covering market size, laws and regulations, and trends of pachinko hall business, pachinko machine market, pachislot machine market and pachinko prize market. The original book is written in Japanese, which has been developed by Yano Research Institute’s experienced pachinko industry research team members. Face-to-face and telephone interviews were conducted with pachinko related machine and equipment manufacturers, pachinko hall operators, pachinko prize dealers, and related organizations and governmental agencies as well as secondary researches during September to November 2005


http://www.yanoresearch.com/products...nko_2006_R.htm



Just so you don't have to run to your calculator to figure the exchange rate if comes to US$2554

[compirate]

I just wish there was a manual for setting up a parlor.
This sounds like a 'Dilbert' kind of thing - lots of graphs and numbers

I've seen a few older versions of this type of book on YJA.