Pokémon cards can be worth a lot of money, but only if they're real... In 2022, a Japanese man was arrested for selling COUNTERFEIT Pokémon cards, Nintendo games and more.

A huge thanks to the Obscure Japan channel for allowing me to use footage from when they visited this store! Check out their full video here:
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SOURCES
English articles
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/202...
https://kotaku.com/pokemoncardsfake...
Japanese news articles
https://web.archive.org/web/202202241...
https://web.archive.org/web/202202221...
http://jin115.com/archives/52340225.html
Japanese blog post with details about double pricing + fakes
https://famicoms.net/blogentry3904....
Japanese tweet reactions
https://matomame.jp/user/yonepo665/c6...
https://kkinformation.com/trend/?p=7...
Store's own tweet
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Japanese law firm article
https://atomfirm.com/keiji/4117