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The size of Japan's card-game and trading-card market in the year to March 2023

¥234.9bn JTA 年度 2022

FiledPublished by an industry body. Not audited.

Found in one pass only. The research team reads every source twice, independently; this record turned up in one reading but not the other, so treat it as less certain than its grade.

What this is

The size of Japan's card-game and trading-card market in the year to March 2023: about ¥234.9bn at list price.

How it’s built

  1. Read from the Japan Toy Association's table of Japan's toy market by category, 2015–2025.

What we assumed

  • The association's year 2022 runs April 2022 to March 2023.The association reports by Japanese fiscal year, April to March.

Sanity check

A business news article quoting the association's 2022 figure gives ¥234.9bn and notes it includes non-trading card games. Not Pokémon only.

Where it comes from

Japanese-language article, 2026 Japan Toy Association · 2026 Open the original ↗

The line in the source

02 カードゲーム、トレーディングカード 96,067 104,569 87,611 107,800 113,303 122,452 177,646 234,906 277,425 302,466 338,414

Related figures

The same measure, other periods