Pokemon cards are disappearing from store shelves across Japan as thieves swipe them and trying to cash in on their high resale value.
Enthusiasts of the popular Pokemon trading card game shell out big money for rare specimens, and some cards can fetch several million yen.
Before dawn on May 8, display cases were broken into at Card Shop Mero in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, and dozens of boxes containing 150 Pokemon cards each, as well as individual cards, were stolen. A card worth 180,000 yen was also stolen from a shop drawer.
