What this is
How Japan's playing-card exports to six Asian destinations grew, 2019–2025: no jump at Indonesia's 2019 launch, a shared surge in 2021, and 2025 values 4 to 276 times 2019 depending on destination.
How it’s built
- Calculated each destination's yearly change in dollar export value, and value per kilogram, from UN Comtrade data.
- Indonesia fell 20% in 2020 and rose 388% in 2021, the year every destination jumped (China +182%, Thailand +168%, Taiwan +117%).
What we assumed
- A new local-language edition would show as a step in exports to that country.That is the test; the 2021 step looks like the market-wide card boom, not a launch. The heading also covers non-Pokémon cards.
Sanity check
Value per kilogram differs widely (2025: Hong Kong $158.7, China $44.6), pointing to different product mixes. No 2026 data was held, so 2026 changes cannot be tested here.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.
Show the working
- ID 541k/682k − 1 = −20% (2020)
- 2,650k/543k − 1 = +388% (2021)
- SG 2023 +249%
- CN 2023 +318%
- 2025 USD/kg: HK 158.7, CN 44.6, SG 68.3, TW 68.6, TH 56.7, ID 47.8