Japan licenses nobody. So a crypto casino is read through its own documents

The short answer: there is no Japanese register to check against

Japan has no licensing regime for online casinos. No authority issues the licences, and as a consequence no register exists — no list of operators, no white list of approved ones, no blacklist of rejected ones.

Which means a reader has exactly zero ways to check an operator against a Japanese official source.

That is not a turn of phrase. It means the act of verification does not exist here. A reader in Poland or the Czech Republic opens the national register and types in a domain. A reader in Japan has no such screen to open.

What remains is what the operator published itself: the licence number, the list of coins, the payout ceiling, the identity-check clause, the list of barred countries. All five are written by the operator, and anyone can open them. What the Japanese regime does and does not contain is set out first on the page about the Japanese system.

Ten operators. Every cell is taken from a licence register or from the operator's own terms. A blank means we could not read it — never “zero”, never “no limit”. There is no column for a Japanese licence, because Japan has no licensing regime for online casinos to issue one.

Operator	Licence	Before the ID check	Coins	Barred countries	Open
Vave	Curaçao Gaming Authority	no figure given	6	list unread	Open
Rocketpot	Curacao	US$2,500	13	34
DuckDice	Anjouan Gaming Board	no figure given	10	16
Empire.io	Anjouan Gaming Board	2,000 USDT	unread	12
Metaspins	Curaçao Gaming Authority	no figure given	8	58
Rainbet	Anjouan Gaming Board	no figure given	9	11
Shuffle	Curaçao Gaming Authority	no figure given	6	15
Wild.io	Curaçao Gaming Authority	no figure given	12	45
Wolf.bet	Anjouan	no figure given	13	48
Bitsler	Curaçao Gaming Authority	no figure given	unread	1

Vave is this site's commercial partner, and the link on that row is paid placement: if a reader opens an account, this site is paid. The order of the table is not set by that payment. Vave is excluded from every count and every ranking on this page. We have not read its list of barred countries, so that cell stays “list unread”.

What the record of 100 operators actually contained

This site rests on a record of 100 operators. How many of them fill in a given field varies enormously from field to field.

A licence number: 68. A barred-country list: 38. A list of coins: 30. A payout ceiling: 14. An amount before the identity check: 5.

That last number is the most important one on the list.

“Play without identity checks” is a phrase in wide circulation, and yet only five operators in a hundred have committed a figure to paper. What the other 95 have not written is not “we never check”; it is “we have not promised the point at which we check”. Without that promise, the figure can be anything at all.

The record also keeps how deeply the terms could be read: 38 straight from the operator's own site, 41 from a saved copy, and 21 not at all. For those 21, no number from this site appears anywhere.

Of 38 barred-country lists, 7 name Japan

An operator publishes its own list of countries it will not accept. That is the operator's document, and it is a separate thing from Japanese law.

Of the 38 lists we could read, Japan appears on 7.

7Bit Casino, Bitcasino.io, Mirax, Oshi Casino, PlayAmo, Slotum and Wild Fortune. The other 31 lists do not name Japan. And for 62 operators the list itself could not be read, so nothing can be said about them.

Set the lengths side by side and the seven split into two groups. Oshi Casino bars 224 countries, Mirax 220, PlayAmo 217, 7Bit Casino and Slotum 216 each. Those five are lists of nearly the whole world: less a decision to exclude Japan than a decision to open a handful of markets and close everything else in one move. Wild Fortune bars 47, which is a length somebody chose.

And one more stands out across the entire record.

Bitcasino.io's barred list names exactly one country, and that country is Japan. In our record, read from the operator's own page on 26 August 2026, no other country appears on it. Nowhere else in 100 operators is there a list naming a single country.

For a reader, that points the opposite way from the legal question. It is not the Japanese regime shutting the operator out — it is the operator that does not want Japanese accounts. And that generally surfaces at the first withdrawal. The names and the list lengths are opened one at a time on the barred-countries page.

The same licence number, two different answers about Japan

A number is issued to a company, not to a brand name. So one number covers several sites at once.

Anjouan number ALSI-202508056-FI2 belongs to Novatrix SRL and covers five brands: Oshi Casino, PlayAmo, Slotum, Winz.io and Bitkingz. Of those five, the first three name Japan. Winz.io's list of 92 countries does not, and neither does Bitkingz's list of 218.

One number, five sets of terms, two different answers about Japan.

Curaçao number OGL/2024/1307/0748 has the same shape: 7Bit Casino and Mirax name Japan, while KatsuBet, running on the same number, has a list we could not read at all. Number OGL/2023/111/0069 belongs to Moon Technologies B.V. and covers Bitcasino.io and Livecasino.io — the first names Japan alone, the second has an unread list.

There is one practical consequence. If a registration is refused and a reader moves to another brand, the next one may be the same company on the same number. The overlaps between companies and numbers are counted on the operating-company page.

What each of the ten in the table has written

All ten publish a licence number: six from Curaçao, four from Anjouan.

Eight of those numbers can be pulled straight from the issuer's own register — cert.cga.cw for the Curaçao ones, the public register at anjouangaming.com for the Anjouan ones. For the remaining two, Rocketpot and Wolf.bet, the licence link points not at a register but at the operator's own site. The number is written down; what backs the number is the operator itself.

The registered statuses do not line up either. Of the ten, five read Active, three read valid, and for two the status is not in the record at all.

Two publish an amount before the identity check: Rocketpot at $2,500, clause 11.4, and Empire.io at 2,000 USDT, clause 5.4. The other eight print no figure and reserve the right to ask for papers at any point before a payout. Nine of the ten have a clause number we could cite; only Wild.io keeps the provision somewhere without one.

Two publish a payout ceiling, and only two: Rocketpot at $5,000 a month (cl. 11.5) and Wild.io at $100,000 a week (cl. 9.6). Both are called a “ceiling”, but the periods differ, so the two cannot be compared directly.

A list of coins could be read for eight: 13 each at Rocketpot and Wolf.bet, 12 at Wild.io, 10 at DuckDice, 9 at Rainbet, 8 at Metaspins, 6 each at Vave and Shuffle. Empire.io and Bitsler have no readable list, so those cells stay empty.

The five who print a figure, and the figure they share

Five operators out of 100 print an amount. Line them up and the shape is hard to call coincidence.

Bitcasino.io: €2,500, clause 6.6. Sportsbet.io: €2,500, clause 6.6. Livecasino.io: €2,500, clause 6.6. Rocketpot: $2,500, clause 11.4. Empire.io: 2,000 USDT, clause 5.4.

Four of the five carry the same figure of 2,500, and three carry the same clause number as well.

It is not a coincidence. Bitcasino.io and Livecasino.io run on the same company and the same licence number. Sportsbet.io has a different number but the same wording at the same clause. So a reader who gathers the figure from several comparison sites is looking at several rows in a table and one piece of text in the documents.

Of those five, only Bitcasino.io names Japan as barred. The care that produces a published figure and the care that produces a written country list come out of the same habit at the same company. The clause-by-clause reading is on the identity-check page.

Fourteen payout ceilings, across four different periods

Fourteen operators in 100 publish a ceiling. That number is the plainest measure of how little an operator binds itself on paper.

The fourteen split by period: six weekly, five monthly, two daily, one per transaction. They split by currency too: eight in euro, three in dollars, two in USDT, one quoting both euro and dollars.

An amount without a period is half a number.

It shows up in the examples. Oshi Casino allows €4,000 a day; PlayAmo allows €7,500 a week. The first looks smaller, but over seven days it comes to €28,000 — nearly four times the second. That is not their claim; it is our arithmetic on their figures.

Six of the fourteen belong to operators that name Japan as barred. Operators who write one of these things tend to write both, and operators who write neither write neither. The full picture of periods and currencies is on the payout-ceiling page.

Thirty lists of coins, running from 1 to 40

We could read the names of accepted coins for 30 operators. The shortest list has one entry, the longest has 40 — a fortyfold spread.

The median, though, is 8.5, and 18 of the 30 lists stop at nine or fewer.

The names at the front are much the same everywhere. Across all 100, BTC appears 29 times, ETH 28, LTC and USDT 23 each. So the gap between a list of 40 and a list of 8 sits in the tail — in how many unusual coins are named — not in the main currencies anyone would actually pay with.

Of the four fields, this one separates operators the least. On the Japanese yen, our record has no field showing how it is treated at all. How the counting works is explained on the coins page.

Sixty-eight licence numbers, 53 distinct ones

Sixty-eight operators publish a number, but there are only 53 distinct numbers. Nine numbers cover more than one site, and 24 brands between them sit on those nine.

The issuers divide up: Curaçao Gaming Authority for 37, Anjouan Gaming Board for 25, some other wording for 6, and no issuer named in the record for 32.

The registered statuses divide too: Active for 32, valid for 25, revoked for 5, and no status in the record for 38.

None of these numbers substitutes for a Japanese licence, because Japan has no such category. What a number answers is one thing only: whether the body that issued it still holds that registration. Nothing more and nothing less. How to read one is opened on the licence page.

Five revoked registrations, three of them on one number

Five of the 100 have a registered status of revoked: BC.Game, Bets.io, Betriot, Casinoly and Zet Casino.

Three of those five publish the same number, OGL/2023/103/0067.

Two things are visible at once here. That one registration covered three sites. And that after the registration lost effect, three addresses went on displaying the number.

A number printed at the foot of a site is what the operator says about itself. An entry in a register is what the body that issued the number says. When the two disagree, the second one governs. The revocations are collected on the revocation page.

What a blank means

Every blank in this table means “we could not read it”. It carries no other meaning.

Read a blank as “no ceiling” and the operator who wrote nothing looks generous. Read a blank as “no identity check” and the operator who promised nothing looks nimble. Both are the same move: rewriting an absence of information as a strength.

That is, in almost every case, the step at which a comparison table starts to lie.

So the cells distinguish three things in writing. “Unpublished” means we read the document and found no figure. “List unread” means we never reached the document. “No figure given” means the operator states outright that it commits to no amount. Those are three different facts.

What this site does not write

Nothing about our own accounts, because we hold none with any of these operators and have deposited nothing. No time a withdrawal took, no impression of support, no wins and no losses.

No legal conclusions either. Ruling on whether a reader's conduct is unlawful is not a comparison site's job. What can be written is the shape of the regime, and that is three things: there is no licensing regime; the ten hold no Japanese licence; betting is governed by the Penal Code.

No bonus amounts, because the record of 100 has no field they could be read from. A figure that cannot be opened in a document goes into no cell here. How sources are handled, and how a correction is published when something turns out wrong, is on how we read the terms.

What you can check yourself before depositing

All three are free and take a few minutes.

Pull the number from the issuer's register. Curaçao numbers at cert.cga.cw, Anjouan numbers in the public register at anjouangaming.com. Look at what the register says, not at what the operator's own page says.

Open the barred-country list and search it two ways. “Japan” and “JP”. Some lists carry no country names at all, only two-letter codes, and searching for the written name finds nothing.

Find the identity-check clause and see whether it carries a figure. If there is a figure, that is a commitment. If there is none, papers can be asked for at any amount. That is where 95 of the 100 stand.

A fourth check, and where to look for each of them, is set out step by step on the check-it-yourself page. If gambling is causing a problem, Gamblers Anonymous Japan holds free, anonymous meetings.

Questions

Beside each answer sits the name of a document and the date it was read. If the document changed after that date, the document is right and this page is not.