He was allowed to spend his nights at an inn near the hospital and he was given some extra money to go to the pachinko parlor -- an excellent place to make contact with the enemy.

A pachinko parlor in Tokyo

File: Pachinko machine, Tokyo ( screen blurred ). jpg | A modern, electronic pachinko machine in a Tokyo parlor.

Entrance to pachinko parlor in Shibuya, Tokyo | Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

The inside workings of a pachinko machine being pulled out of a parlor.

Under Japanese law, cash cannot be paid out directly for pachinko balls, but there is usually a small establishment located nearby, separate from the game parlor but sometimes in a separate unit as part of the same building, where players may " sell " special prizes for cash.

Retired officers often work in the pachinko parlor industry ; critics have pointed out that while this has had a deterrent effect against organized crime involvement, it also means that these operators are in a strong position to influence currently active police officers in their favor.

Though for many years a pachinko parlor sat on the grounds of the Ikedaya, with the only remnant being a memorial tablet relating the events that occurred on the site, in 2009 an izakaya named Ikeda-ya opened, designed and decorated with an Ikeda-ya Shinsengumi / Bakumatsu theme.

Later, Eddie goes to a pachinko parlor, in which patrons gamble on intricate machines similar to pinball machines.

In Tokyo, the special prize exchange is handled exclusively by the Tokyo Union Circulation company ( known as TUC ), which sells pachinko and slot parlors gold slits in standardized plastic cases, which it buys back from winning customers at its conveniently located " TUC Shop " windows.

He comes to Tokyo with his girlfriend Rumiko, relying on pachinko winnings to foot the bill.

Directly gambling on pachinko is illegal in Japan.

As a country influenced by Japan during its occupation, Taiwan has many pachinko establishments.

The majority of pachinko shops in Japan are owned by Zainichi Koreans ; according to the South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo, 90 % of the 16, 000 – 17, 000 pachinko shops in Japan are owned by them.

Many video arcades in Japan feature pachinko models from different times.

In Japan, there are many unwritten rules of conduct for pachinko players and everyone is expected to conform to them or be asked to leave that particular establishment.

Smoking is allowed in parlors, although there are discussions in Japan to extend public smoking bans to pachinko parlors.

is the founder and chairman of Sankyo, one of the three major pachinko machine makers in Japan.

was established on November 1, 1975 and is a leading developer and retailer of pachinko and pachislot systems in Japan.

** As guests ascend a narrow staircase, whether from the load hall at Disneyland and Disneyland Paris or in the grand staircase scene in Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland, guests come across a living suit of armor, a chair which is embroidered with a hidden abstract face, and a long, narrow corridor down the center of a parlor.

The name breaks down to zashiki, a sitting room or parlor, usually with tatami flooring, and warashi, an archaic term for a child, used particularly in the northeast of Japan.

The Intelligent Mechatronics Lab, directed by Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Tokyo University of Science, has developed an android head called Saya, which was exhibited at Robodex 2002 in Yokohama, Japan.

* 1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.

* 1974 – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan.

* 1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.

, also known as, is a district of Tokyo, Japan.

The SIG has local offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Beijing, China, Seoul, Korea, Tokyo, Japan and Malmö, Sweden.

Japan BCG Laboratory markets its vaccine, based on the Tokyo 172 substrain of Pasteur BCG, in 50 countries worldwide.

International Federation of Cheerleading ( IFC ): Established on the 5th July 1998, the International Federation of Cheerleading ( IFC ) is a non-profit federation based in Tokyo, Japan and is the world governing body of cheerleading.

The IFC is a non-profit organisation founded in 1998 and based in Tokyo, Japan.

The series premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from April 3, 1998 until June 19, 1998, broadcasting only twelve episodes and a special due to its controversial content.

Only little or incomplete case volumes can be found ; for example, the only copy of Di Gong An was found at a second-hand book store in Tokyo, Japan.

* 1927 – The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.

As well as TU / e and Delft University of Technology, the top 10 also includes two universities in Japan ( Tokyo Institute of Technology and Keio University in Tokyo ), two in Sweden ( University of Gothenburg and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm ), and one each in Denmark ( DTU Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby ), Finland ( University of Helsinki ), Norway ( Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim ) and the USA ( Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York ).

The emperor moved his residence to Tokyo, making the city the formal capital of Japan:

Tokyo: Asia Society of Japan.

Tokyo: Asia Society of Japan.

In a ranking of the best films produced in Asia by Sight & Sound, Japan made up eight of the top twelve, with Tokyo Story ranked number one.

Schaffner was born in Tokyo, Japan, the son of missionaries Sarah ( née Swords ) and Paul Franklin Schaffner, and was raised in Japan.

Tokyo Racecourse in Tokyo, Japan.

Megalon is finally released to the surface while Jet Jaguar is put under the control of the Seatopians and is used to guide Megalon to attack Tokyo with the Japan Self Defense Forces failing to defeat the monster.

* GMO CLOUD K. K., a company based in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan