TOKYO -- "Your card has been suspended due to suspicious activity."This Mainichi Shimbun reporter received this message from my credit card company in･･･ ...

Shirtless fishermen have become the latest hot item driving the trading card-collecting scene in Japan. Hitomi Nakayama, who lives in Aomori, has now collected more than 50 of these trading cards ...

ATHENS, Pa. (WETM) – An Athens man has been sentenced to serve at least 10 years in prison after he was convicted of raping a ...

Trading cards based on Japanese anime are popular even overseas, and in some cases can fetch prices in the millions of yen (tens of thousands of dollars). They are also easy to resell. What ...

Japanese crime syndicates have reportedly begun using Pokémon trading cards to launder vast amounts of money. The former head ...

A cash register containing around 130,000 yen ($928) was missing, but it was clear what the burglars were really after: Pokemon trading cards. The total damage caused by the theft was around 6.5 ...