The average wait, in the long line, is 90 minutes. And the line unfolds towards a stall in the Nishi-Ginza district of Tokyo, where year-end lottery tickets are on sale: 49 tickets will win, endowed with 500 million yen each (about 3 million and 300 thousand euros), tax free. There are many stalls, but the one in Nishi-Ginza is very popular, having sold many winning tickets in the past.
The wise conclusions of the calculation of probabilities do not appeal to the collective conscious and unconscious, nor does it reveal the fact that, as in all lotteries, the community is the loser, given that the jackpot is always lower than the takings and the only one that earns is the state. But hope springs eternal, and many think that the crisis of the Japanese economy, and in particular the increase in prices, after the rise in VAT rates, which has eroded real wages, is responsible for this refuge in the hope of winning .
Attachments: Japan Today
