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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":217906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6015,80109,578,134,359,554,555,111,139,69,370],"class_list":{"0":"post-217905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-apps","9":"tag-casinos","10":"tag-gambling","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-internet","13":"tag-mental-health","14":"tag-mentalhealth","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}