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Ashley Bardhan

The war on Pokemon scalpers now includes facial recognition checks in some stores in Japan

A male and female Pyroar seen in the Pokemon anime.

The Pokemon Company will begin using facial recognition at official Pokemon Card Stores in Japan in an effort to discourage scalpers.

The publisher already announced this summer that it would use standardized, but not mandatory, Japanese ID called My Number Cards to verify some transactions made through the official Japanese Pokemon TCG website. Soon, it'll be harder to buy a TCG pack than board an international flight.

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