SENDAI, Miyagi Prefecture—Prefectural police have sent prosecutors files on two men suspected of teaching others how to illegally bend the pins in pachinko game machines to reduce the chances of ...

Pachinko is a Japanese game, described as a cross between pinball and a slot machine, wherein small metal balls drop randomly amid a maze of metal pins. The game’s large and colorful booths fill ...

"The industry is in decline, and we are trying to think of ways to revive the business,” said Hiroto Kamei, sales director of pachinko-machine maker Toyomaru Sangyo. "We’re constantly ...