Japan will legalize casinos its own way

As the Diet plods toward casino legalization, Japan’s proposed casino regulations keep exasperating global gaming giants. But the Sands, Caesars and MGMs of the world will have to play by house rules or find another game.

Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a blogger for Forbes, editor at large for Inside Asian Gaming and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.