Take our user survey and make your voice heard.
Two men stole 3 million yen from three pachinko parlor employees in Sasaguri, Fukuoka Prefecture, police said Monday.
According to police, the robbery took place at around 9:30 a.m. Sunday. TV Asahi reported that the three employees were carrying a bag containing money from their vehicle in the car park to get ready to open the E space Sasaguri parlor when two men approached them and sprayed an oil-like liquid on them.
The two robbers grabbed the bag and got away on motorbikes.
The men are described as being both approximately 170 cm tall and one of them had his hair dyed blond, police said.
© Japan Today
12 Comments
Login to comment
khulifi
Check the pachinko regular customers who start lining up from 9 am till the opening at 10 am ...!!
Kobuta Chan
Everyone wants to think it's inside job. Think about employees, Japan is not the same as 20 years ago anymore. It's sad. The economy of country is no where to go and some peoples have sorting out their problem in easy ways.
There's no moral conscience for today young Japanese and they lost transition between modern Japan and old Japan. It's really sad.
Silvafan
Go to the security cameras, there will probably show one of them scouting the place out.
BurakuminDes
Hang on - what were pachinko employees doing with 3 million yen in cash? Everyone knows gambling for cash at pachinko doesn't happen in Japan - its "for amusement only"!
gogogo
what is the money used for? You only win balls when you play pachinko. I think the title needs to be changed to
"employees of "gold buying store" located next a pachinko parlor gets robed."
Mirai Hayashi
The money could be from selling the balls. The prices for the ball range from 1 to 7 yen each depending the parlor. When you hit the "jackpot",you win more balls,which you exchange for "prizes". The prizes can then be exchanged for cash at a discreet location. This system is to bypass a gambling loophole in the law, because you are not directly winning money, but prizes that can be exchanged for cash.
gogogo
Mirai Hayashi: That can't be true! Japan gambling in Japan is illegal, such things would never happen in this country.
/end sarcasm
Mirai Hayashi
@gogogo
Have you played panchinko in Japan and won before? If you have, you'd know that this is exactly how it works, otherwise the police would be raiding parlors every day
zettaiEngineer
Robbery is bad for health, especially robbing businesses run by tattooed people. The investigation, trial, and punishment may already be completed, without taxpayer expense.
toshiko
All of Mirai Hayashi's comments are correct. I think these employees are money movers (bag men). Pachinko parlers sell balls and either give balls or prizes to winners. Then winners exchange prizes in nearby exchange business. Fomer pawnshops (shichiya) have that kind of business. Because pachinko houses do not pay cash, it is not considered gambling house. They have pretty good security camera systems inside of buildings. When balls are sold, pachinko parlors have to pay exchange. for instance, some one may but 800 yen balls and house have to pay 200 changes for 1,000 yen bill. Morning players have more cash than evening players.
Frederick Leach
The first time i played pachinko i won 22。000 yen from one ball i picked up off the floor and a fiber mini, talk about beginners luck, back to the story, gambling is evil casinos ect, these things are bound to happen when you deal with evil
toshiko
@Frederick: You must be the first person in Japanese pachinko history who won money. The first one since 1950's pinball era included history of pachinko parlors. Did the parlor got raided for giving you money?
Uusually security cameras are watching outside of parlor as there were too many incidents in a children left inside of cars and some dead that parlors installed security cameras..
Anout 90 % of pachinko parlors are owned by Korean Japanese people. Also, they hire mussel men from local yakuza organizations as bouncers (Youjinbou).