Likewise, Konami recently resurrected the renowned horror game Silent Hill as a pachinko machine to appeal to a greater number of audiences. Pachinko is so prevalent in the country's zeitgeist that modern gaming company Sega just recently merged its pachinko and game development branches for the purposes of improving their domestic research and development. Old and young locals as well as tourists continue to flock to the many pachinko parlors that are spread throughout Tokyo's Shibuya District. In fact, Asian online gaming magazine Expat Bets’ guide to Japan reports that pachinko is regarded more as a recreational activity instead of a casino game in the country, which accounts for its continued mainstream popularity. A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an 'extraordinary epic' of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). As NPR notes in its review of the novel, the game of pachinko is one of Japan's national obsessions, which is something that is as true in the last century as it is today.
Stories of marriage, death, birth, and betrayal, provide an entertaining peek into the class-based, racial, sexual, religious, and political divisions that have defined immigrant life in the previous and current centuries. As a student of history, Lee sees the game of pachinko as the perfect metaphor for the pursuit of fortune, the failings, and the struggles of the people in the book.
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