Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

The material enforcement development this cycle is the 25 September 2025 entry into force of an amendment to the Gambling Dependency Countermeasures Basic Act, which makes presentation or introduction of illegal online-gambling websites, and internet-based inducement of unspecified persons toward such gambling, independently unlawful, separate from the wagering offence itself. This is confirmed, durable statutory law, corroborated by a Tokyo Metropolitan Government notice and Nikkei's coverage of the 18 June 2025 Diet vote. Alongside the new offence, national and local government, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the National Police Agency, have been given public-awareness duties, and police have been empowered to request takedown of qualifying content from platforms and internet service providers; this implementing power is fragile, resting on administrative direction rather than statute, and is revocable by future guidance change. No dedicated JCRC enforcement-events register was located this cycle, so the practical cadence of takedown requests and prosecutions under the new offence cannot yet be evidenced directly, only the statutory grant of the power itself.