By JIN NISHIOKA/ Staff Writer
October 20, 2021 at 07:10 JST
Taiyo-Giken workers check automatic dealing mah-jongg tables in Mihama, Wakayama Prefecture. (Jin Nishioka)
Stay-at-home lifestyles have further eroded the rough image of mah-jongg as a game played all night by crude characters in smoke-filled gambling dens. [Read More]
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