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A U.K.-developed app that blocks access to gambling sites has recently been translated into Japanese, a step advocates say could help curb gambling addiction in Japan.<\/p>\n

But there are still many unresolved issues surrounding online gambling, they say, noting that recent efforts to crack down on illegal advertising by such sites are far from enough.<\/p>\n

Gamban, a leading gambling-blocking software company, recently launched a website localized for Japanese users<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A U.K.-developed app that blocks access to gambling sites has recently been translated into Japanese, a step advocates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1638,49,48,74557,19215,84,244,393,394,64],"class_list":["post-390122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-apps","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-casinos","tag-gambling","tag-health","tag-internet","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}