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Pokemon Go Fest 2025 Paris - Sceaux

A character statue holds a pokeball on the opening day of the Pokemon Go Fest 2025, in the Parc de Sceaux, south of Paris, on June 13, 2025. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pokemon Go Fest 2025 Paris - Sceaux

A character statue holds a pokeball on the opening day of the Pokemon Go Fest 2025, in the Parc de Sceaux, south of Paris, on June 13, 2025. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Honda unveils Pokemon character-shaped two-wheel vehicle

Honda Motor Co. unveils to the media at its showroom in Tokyo on March 7, 2025, a two-wheel vehicle in the shape of Koraidon, a Pokemon character from the Pokemon Scarlet video game. Honda's self-balancing technology is incorporated into the vehicle to enable it to walk on all four leges with a speed of up to 15 kilometers per hour while carrying children, and self-stand on two wheels.

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Honda unveils Pokemon character-shaped two-wheel vehicle

Honda Motor Co. unveils to the media at its showroom in Tokyo on March 7, 2025, a two-wheel vehicle in the shape of Koraidon, a Pokemon character from the Pokemon Scarlet video game. Honda's self-balancing technology is incorporated into the vehicle to enable it to walk on all four leges with a speed of up to 15 kilometers per hour while carrying children, and self-stand on two wheels.

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[Breaking News]USJ water-splash event

OSAKA,Japan, July 2 Kyodo -Universal Studios Japan gives journalists a sneak preview of its limited-time water-splash event featuring Pokemon character Pikachu in Osaka on July 2, 2024, a day before opening to the general public.(Kyodo)

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USJ water-splash event

Universal Studios Japan gives journalists a sneak preview of its limited-time water-splash event featuring Pokemon character Pikachu in Osaka on July 2, 2024, a day before opening to the general public.

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Anime, comic character lantern floats in Japan festival

A paper lantern float featuring characters from the "Pokemon" animation series are paraded through the streets during the Manga Ebuta Matsuri festival in Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 12, 2023.

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Last remaining ANA jumbo jets

TOKYO, Japan - A Boeing 747 of All Nippon Airways Co. featuring Pokemon character Pikachu takes off from Tokyo's Haneda airport on May 24, 2013. Sources familiar with the matter said on May 24 that ANA will move up the planned retirement of its five remaining jumbo jets to the end of March 2014 from 2015.

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Pikachu train in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Pikachu, a popular character from the animation series Pocket Monsters (Pokemon), and the station master wave to a shinkansen bullet train with a Pikachu painting at a platform at Ueno Station in Tokyo on July 30, 2011.

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Japan's No.1 Pokemon store attracts families

OSAKA, Japan - Children pose for photos with a Pikachu character at Pokemon Center Osaka in a Daimaru department store in Osaka's Umeda area on Nov. 26, 2010, on the opening day of Japan's largest Pokemon character shop in terms of the biggest variety of goods.

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All aboard the Pokemon bullet train

TOKYO, Japan - Passengers wave from a Shinkansen bullet train painted with an image of Pikachu, a popular Pokemon character, at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on July 18. East Japan Railway Co., or more widely known as JR East, started running the Pokemon high-speed trains the same day on the Tohoku, Joetsu, Akita, Yamagata and Nagano Shinkansen lines.

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Time magazine picks the Pokemon character as best of 1999

TOKYO, Japan - Time magazine of the United States has picked Pikachu, a character from the popular Pokemon animation show, as the person or thing having the best character in 1999. Pikachu shared the honor with Latino singer Ricky Martin. Photo shows a girl (L) wearing a Pikachu costume in New York.

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Amazon.com to market Pokemon goods

NEW YORK, United States - Holding a stuffed Pokemon character, Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com, an Internet retailer dealing mainly in books and CDs, attends a press conference in New York on Nov. 9. Bezos announced that Amazon will begin marketing some 100 kinds of Pokemon merchandise from Nintendo Co. of Japan from Nov. 10.

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Pikachu joins American Toy Fair

Pikachu, a character in the Japanese cartoon series Pocket Monsters, or Pokemon, is paraded in an open car in Manhattan, New York, on Feb. 8 to mark its participation in the American International Toy Fair that started during the day. The cartoon has been aired in the United States since September.

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Protest against Japan's energy policy near COP26 venue

Environmental activists dressed as Pokemon character Pikachu call in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 4, 2021, for Japan to stop using coal for power generation, as the 26th U.N. Climate Change Conference of the Parties, known as COP26, is under way.

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Hands-on Pokemon entertainment facility to open in Osaka in November

Two visitors react to a Pocket Monsters character on the screen during a preview event on Oct. 21, 2015, at Pokemon Expo Gym, a hands-on entertainment facility in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, scheduled to officially open on Nov. 19. Visitors can engage in conversation with the popular TV animation characters. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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All aboard the Pokemon bullet train

TOKYO, Japan - Passengers wave from a Shinkansen bullet train painted with an image of Pikachu, a popular Pokemon character, at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on July 18. East Japan Railway Co., or more widely known as JR East, started running the Pokemon high-speed trains the same day on the Tohoku, Joetsu, Akita, Yamagata and Nagano Shinkansen lines. (Kyodo)

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Pikachu train in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Pikachu, a popular character from the animation series Pocket Monsters (Pokemon), and the station master wave to a shinkansen bullet train with a Pikachu painting at a platform at Ueno Station in Tokyo on July 30, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Japan's No.1 Pokemon store attracts families

OSAKA, Japan - Children pose for photos with a Pikachu character at Pokemon Center Osaka in a Daimaru department store in Osaka's Umeda area on Nov. 26, 2010, on the opening day of Japan's largest Pokemon character shop in terms of the biggest variety of goods. (Kyodo)

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Time magazine picks the Pokemon character as best of 1999

TOKYO, Japan - Time magazine of the United States has picked Pikachu, a character from the popular Pokemon animation show, as the person or thing having the best character in 1999. Pikachu shared the honor with Latino singer Ricky Martin. Photo shows a girl (L) wearing a Pikachu costume in New York.

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Amazon.com to market Pokemon goods

NEW YORK, United States - Holding a stuffed Pokemon character, Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com, an Internet retailer dealing mainly in books and CDs, attends a press conference in New York on Nov. 9. Bezos announced that Amazon will begin marketing some 100 kinds of Pokemon merchandise from Nintendo Co. of Japan from Nov. 10.

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Pikachu joins American Toy Fair

Pikachu, a character in the Japanese cartoon series Pocket Monsters, or Pokemon, is paraded in an open car in Manhattan, New York, on Feb. 8 to mark its participation in the American International Toy Fair that started during the day. The cartoon has been aired in the United States since September.