Now, pachinko wants casinos, driven by attendance that has sunk more than 60 percent since the mid-1990s and an uncertain legal status that has prevented them from listing in Japan. “Pachinko companies are feeling a sense of crisis that they will go into decline unless they do something,” Daigo Fukunaga, a senior analyst at Advanced Research Japan, said in an interview. Casinos would be “a big new market” to pachinko companies, he said. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said last month that his ruling party would seek to pass the bill in the fall.