By The Weekly Edge desk ·
The Sasebo Chamber of Commerce is renewing efforts to advance a casino project in Nagasaki, Japan, iGaming Brazil reported. The chamber aims to make construction feasible.
The chamber’s renewed efforts aim to make construction of the proposed Nagasaki casino feasible.
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