{"id":35979,"date":"2025-12-23T01:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/japan-esports-betting-to-remain-prohibited-say-lawmakers\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T01:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:55:15","slug":"japan-esports-betting-to-remain-prohibited-say-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/japan-esports-betting-to-remain-prohibited-say-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Esports Betting to Remain Prohibited, Say Lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese lawmakers met to discuss the prospect of legalizing sports betting, but the group has no plans to relax the country\u2019s strict laws in the near term.\u00a0 Esports betting remains illegal in Japan, with only a select number of gambling activities allowed. Residents can wager on boat races&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/sportsbooks\/japan-esports-betting-to-remain-illegal\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese lawmakers met to discuss the prospect of legalizing sports betting, but the group has no plans to relax the country\u2019s strict laws in the near term.\u00a0 Esports betting remains illegal in Japan, with only a select number of gambling activities allowed. Residents can wager on boat races&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}