Presumably after a few false starts (such as projecting Citizen Kane onto a plus-size stripper named Busty Lusty or having all the girls perform to Sufjan Stevens songs), he began handing out sketch pads to customers as they walked in and calling the club's performances "art classes" instead of "boner-flexing tit parades." Since the patrons were all holding drawing tablets and seated around what could vaguely be considered a nude model (in pretty much the same way Jimmie Johnson can be considered an athlete), the state totally allowed it .

2 Trading Pachinko Balls for Money Trading Pachinko Balls for Money

Gambling is illegal in Japan, which is strange considering that most of the Japanese people we see in photos on the Internet have clearly lost some kind of bet.

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However, some enterprising criminals have found a way to circumvent the law with pachinko parlors. Pachinko is like a cross between a slot machine and a pinball game -- if you win, it spits out a torrent of small steel balls instead of currency (steel balls will eventually become currency once the Earth is conquered by robots, but for now they don't count). Since the pachinko machines don't actually reward players with money, it isn't considered gambling -- sort of like how a skee ball machine spits out heroin-stained tickets instead of dollar bills.

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In Japanese, the word "pachinko" means "monetized epilepsy."

Like skee ball tickets, you can trade pachinko balls in for a prize ... and then immediately take the prize to an unmarked store (usually owned by the same people as the pachinko parlor) to exchange the prize for money. We assume it won't be long before the Yakuza start positioning themselves outside of the unmarked stores to swap players their recently traded cash for stab wounds.