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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russia’s Vladimir Putin are ready to collude in order to better both states. The two met last week to discuss their relations, but no marquee peace breakthrough or economic development was announced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Some Japanese want nothing to do with Putin, whose country is backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and the destruction of Aleppo.<\/p>\n
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Japan is positioned to become the world’s next casino destination, but ground won’t be broke on a resort for at least 12 months. Over the next year, the country’s government will prepare a framework to regulate gambling before accepting applications for development.<\/p>\n
MGM, Las Vegas Sands, Hard Rock, and others have all pledged multibillion-dollar investments to Japan should the nation fully legalize\u00a0integrated casino resorts.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nAbe and Putin’s peace treaty talks will continue early next year when the Japanese leader travels to Russia. If a pact is reached, the peacetime deal would better the former Soviet Union’s economy due to less sanctions and tariffs placed on oil exports.<\/p>\n
In exchange, Abe might request Putin allow his people to more freely travel to Japan, and spend their money at the forthcoming casino resorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The first Sochi casino is scheduled to open on January 5, 2017, bringing gambling to the mountainside resort town in an effort to make the destination more appealing during the off-season. Russia approved Sochi for casino gambling in August to help offset seasonal revenue pitfalls and also continue to pay down the monumental debt still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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