Overview

• Tokyo District Court on September 25 found former Fuji TV production manager Suzuki Yoshitaka, 44, guilty and imposed a one-year sentence suspended for three years after prosecutors sought one year.
• Prosecutors said he repeatedly used the Eldora Casino site from September 2024 to May 2025, logging about 145 sessions of baccarat and other games with total wagers estimated at roughly 600 million yen.
• They argued he began intermittent online-casino gambling around 2020 after learning about it from a senior colleague and kept betting even after a company reprimand in May 2025.
• According to the prosecution, mounting losses led him to borrow about 20–30 million yen from consumer finance firms and acquaintances, and he apologized in court while acknowledging a gambling addiction.
• In a related Fuji TV matter, a 27-year-old former announcer received a 100,000-yen summary fine in July for simple gambling tied to online casinos.