Japan’s legislators continue to wrestle with the details of their casino legislation, even as the clock continues to tick away on the current legislative session.

On Tuesday, Bloomberg Politics quoted Kiyohiko Toyama, the casino point person for the conservative Buddhist-backed Komeito party – the junior partner in the Liberal Democratic Party’s governing coalition – saying his members wanted the government to authorize no more than three casinos, at least to start.

Last week, a vocal faction in the LDP’s Integrated Resorts (IR) Project Team advocated the approval of four to five casinos in the initial round, with a further 10 gaming venues possibly to follow. But Toyama said this larger initial number would make garnering the approval of Komeito members “extremely hard.”

Toyama insisted that Komeito wasn’t saying three casinos should be “the limit forever,” and that if Japanese society is still standing after the first three IRs have been operating a while, “we could increase it a bit.”