Japan's economy may be in the dumps, but one industry here has taken the world by storm: trading-card games.
Three years after Nintendo Co.'s Pokemon washed over American living rooms, children and their harried parents are now immersed in Yu-Gi-Oh. Its maker, Konami Corp., has taken a page from Nintendo and turned its franchise into a multimedia blitz, creating the Yu-Gi-Oh card game, software, cartoons and toys.
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