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Japan, counted

One operator bars a single country, and that country is Japan

Seven of the 38 restricted clauses opened for this index print Japan. One of the seven names exactly 1 country in the whole of its clause, and Japan is that country.

A restricted clause with one entry inside it

Bitcasino.io publishes its terms in a help-centre page, and the restricted-territory clause inside reaches exactly one of the 122 markets covered by this index. That market is Japan. The page answered on the operator’s own site on 26 August 2026, so this is a live reading rather than an archived one.

Seven clauses print Japan in total. Thirty-one further clauses were opened and read through with the Japanese entry missing, and sixty-two operators keep a document that stayed shut through this pass.

OperatorAddress of the clauseHow it was read
7Bit Casino7bitcasino.com/terms-and-conditions26 Aug 2026, archived
Bitcasino.iobitcasino.io/help-center/help-terms-and-conditions/bitcasino-terms-and-conditions-of-use-of-services-of-the-company26 Aug 2026, live
Miraxwww.miraxcasino.com/en-AU/terms-and-conditions26 Aug 2026, archived
Oshi Casinowww.oshi.io/en-CA/terms-and-conditions26 Aug 2026, archived
PlayAmowww.playamo.com/en-AU/terms-and-conditions26 Aug 2026, archived
Slotumwww.slotum.com/en-CA/terms-and-conditions26 Aug 2026, archived
Wild Fortunewww.wildfortune.io/terms-and-conditions26 Aug 2026, live

Three clauses of one entry, and where each of them stops

Bitcasino.io has two counterparts in this library. Stake publishes a licences page whose restricted clause reaches the United States alone, and Coins.Game publishes one reaching the Netherlands alone. Those three documents are the shortest anywhere in the reading.

The three markets behave very differently elsewhere. Thirty-two clauses print the United States and twenty-seven print the Netherlands, both figures sitting near the top of this index, while Japan reaches seven. A brand narrowing its refusals to one country has usually picked the country everybody else picked; Bitcasino.io picked one that thirty-one other opened documents pass over.

Twenty-five entries, and Japan the only East Asian one

The second live reading in the table comes from Wild Fortune, at www.wildfortune.io/terms-and-conditions. Its schedule reaches twenty-five of the 122 countries here, and Japan is the single East Asian name among the twenty-five.

The rest of that document leans hard towards Europe, with a run through the Baltic states and the Balkans, and reaches across to Brazil, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Its only other Asian entries are Israel, Bahrain, Iraq and Georgia; Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and every South-East Asian market stay outside it. A twenty-five entry schedule spending one place on Tokyo and none on any neighbour has weighed this market by itself.

The remaining five rows belong to the sweeping shelf, whose schedules run from 96 markets up to 105 each. Japan appears in those the way most of the world appears in them.

Thirty-one clauses where the Japanese entry is missing

Thirty-one published clauses were opened, read through, and carried no Japanese entry. That statement is complete, and each way of extending it supplies a promise the operator withheld.

A clause can omit a market and the cashier still decline the deposit, because the payment provider behind it keeps territory rules published nowhere a reader can check. Documents can still be demanded at the first withdrawal, months after registration passed without friction. Regional editions of one agreement diverge, and four of the seven addresses above sit in editions written for Australia or Canada.

What each operator publishes about itself: the company named on the licence, the permit number and where it was read, how many countries the operator excludes in its own terms, and when identity documents are demanded. The country count is the length of a list the operator published, not our estimate of where it will accept you. An empty cell means the document was not read — it is not a zero, and it is not a permission.

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  • OperatorTechOptions Group B.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao no number
  • Countries barredlist not read
  • Before ID checkcase by case
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Stake
  • OperatorMedium Rare N.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred1
  • Before ID checkcase by case
Shuffle
  • OperatorNatural Nine B.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred15
  • Before ID checkcase by case
BC.Game
  • Operatornot published
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
Roobet
  • Operatornot published
  • Licencenot published
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
Rollbit
  • Operatornot published
  • Licencenot published
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
Duelbits
  • OperatorLiquid Entertainment N.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
Bets.io
  • OperatorTechno Wave Systems S.R.L.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred42
  • Before ID checkcase by case
Cloudbet
  • OperatorHalcyon Super Holdings B.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred2
  • Before ID checkcase by case
MyStake
  • Operatornot published
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
TrustDice
  • Operatornot published
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
BetFury
  • OperatorUniverse B Games B.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published

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Sixty-two documents that were never opened

Sixty-two brands in the library of a hundred keep a restricted clause this reading has yet to retrieve. The terms moved, the page demanded an account, or the archive returned nothing usable.

Those cells stay blank, and the blank is a third state rather than a quiet zero. It records where this desk stopped, enters no total, and moves nobody up the table. Read as permission it would turn unfinished work into advice, which is the failure the whole index exists to avoid. How we read sets out the standard, and the order in which the rest get opened.

A clause drafted by a company, and Japanese statute

Everything counted here is contract language, kept in line with the operator’s own licensing and payment arrangements and edited whenever either shifts.

What Japanese law permits has its own authors, and this page leaves the question with them entirely. The confusion is easy to fall into, because a country printed inside a terms page looks like an official act while remaining a private commercial choice that binds only the person who accepted it. The country index holds the same reading elsewhere, including South Korea at the same total, Vietnam at eight, and Australia at thirteen.

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Which operator bars Japan and nowhere else?
Bitcasino.io. Its terms page carries a restricted clause reaching one of the 122 markets covered here, and that market is Japan. The document was read on the operator’s own live site on 26 August 2026, at bitcasino.io, inside its help-centre terms page.
How many operators write Japan into their own clause altogether?
Seven of the thirty-eight opened on 26 August 2026. Two answered from a live page and five came from archived captures. Thirty-one opened clauses carry no Japanese entry, and sixty-two operators in the library keep a document that stayed shut.
Thirty-one clauses leave Japan out. What does that support?
One sentence: the country was absent from those documents on the day each was opened. Clauses are revised commercially without notice, regional editions of one agreement differ, the payment provider applies territory rules of its own, and verification is settled separately at withdrawal.
Does this page describe Japanese gambling law?
It describes contract terms only. A restricted-territory clause is drafted by an operator about the service it sells and revised by that operator alone. Japanese statute rests on separate sources, and this index declines to summarise or imply them.