{"id":12804,"date":"2023-01-10T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/10\/pokemon-cards-targeted-in-series-of-trading-card-store-burglaries-in-tokyo\/"},"modified":"2023-01-10T19:00:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T19:00:35","slug":"pokemon-cards-targeted-in-series-of-trading-card-store-burglaries-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/10\/pokemon-cards-targeted-in-series-of-trading-card-store-burglaries-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Cards Targeted In Series Of Trading Card Store Burglaries In Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Damages estimated at &#8220;tens of millions of yen&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A number of burglaries at trading card stores have been reported in Tokyo, Japan, as a result of the rising popularity and value of Pok\u00e9mon cards. Since last summer, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2023\/01\/06\/national\/crime-legal\/pokemon-cards-burglaries\/\">Japan Times<\/a> reports that damages from these burglaries are estimated to be around tens of millions of yen.<\/p>\n<p>According to an investigative source, there have been unprecedented five cases where the main target has been trading cards \u2014 and the <strong>Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game<\/strong> is usually involved. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has reported on one specific case, where 60 cards \u2014 worth a staggering \u00a58.5 million \u2014 were stolen from a store in Machida, a city located in the western part of Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/01\/pokemon-cards-targeted-in-series-of-trading-card-store-burglaries-in-tokyo\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Pok\u00e9mon Cards Targeted In Series Of Trading Card Store Burglaries In Tokyo<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Damages estimated at &#8220;tens of millions of yen&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A number of burglaries at trading card stores have been reported in Tokyo, Japan, as a result of the rising popularity and value of Pok\u00e9mon cards. Since last summer, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2023\/01\/06\/national\/crime-legal\/pokemon-cards-burglaries\/\">Japan Times<\/a> reports that damages from these burglaries are estimated to be around tens of millions of yen.<\/p>\n<p>According to an investigative source, there have been unprecedented five cases where the main target has been trading cards \u2014 and the <strong>Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game<\/strong> is usually involved. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has reported on one specific case, where 60 cards \u2014 worth a staggering \u00a58.5 million \u2014 were stolen from a store in Machida, a city located in the western part of Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/01\/pokemon-cards-targeted-in-series-of-trading-card-store-burglaries-in-tokyo\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}