Meiji

Meiji Co. Ltd is a Japanese candy manufacturer founded in December 1917. It remains one of Japan's largest candy manufacturers, and has a significant international presence. In 1997, the company distributed the first Pokémon cards licensed to be sold alongside regular goods, releasing a set of cards with packs of Meiji chocolate. The company has collaborated with the Pokémon brand on multiple occasions since, marketing their candy to children and Pokémon fans.

Meiji Co. Ltd 株式会社明治
Meiji logo
Founded	1917
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Type	Subsidiary
Owner(s)	Meiji Holdings
Industry	Food, collectibles
Website Japan: meiji.com

Overview

Box with Meiji Blue cards

History

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Meiji released eight different promotional sets between 1997 and 2002. The earlier sets are often called "rock-paper-scissors" cards, as they feature a hand used to play the game with cards. The final two sets to not feature rock-paper-scissors elements.

Meiji packaged Pokémon Trading Card Game cards with their chocolate from 2004 to 2008, rather than continue producing unique cards that were separate from the TCG. All Meiji TCG cards can be distinguished by the red Meiji logo in their bottom left corner.

Meiji also made 3 less known sticker sets, although these were produced in very little numbers.

Sets

Meiji produced 8 different Pokémon card sets between 1997 and 2002.

Set	Release year	No. of cards	Example 1	Example 2	Example 3
Pokémon Meiji Get Cards	1997	170 cards
Pokémon Meiji Movie	1998	48 cards
Pokémon Meiji Embossed	1999	24 cards
Pokémon Meiji Blue	2000	16 cards
Pokémon Meiji Gold	2000	16 cards
Pokémon Meiji Silver	2000	16 cards
Pokémon Meiji Rainbow Silver	2001	18 cards
Pokémon Meiji VS series	2002	16 cards

See also

Companies The Pokémon Company The Pokémon Company International (The Pokémon Company International Ireland • The Pokémon Company International Mexico • Millennium Print Group) • Pokémon Korea • Pokémon Center Co., Ltd. • Pokémon Singapore • Pokémon Shanghai • Pokémon Taiwan • Genius Sonority • The Pokémon Works • Pokémon with You Foundation Animation & movies 4Kids Entertainment • Bang Zoom! Studios • Deluxe • DuArt Media Services • Framestore • Iyuno • Miramax • Moving Picture Company • OLM, Inc. • TAJ Productions • Toho • Universal Pictures Home Entertainment • The Walt Disney Company • Warner Bros. Books & strategy guides Golden Books • Media Factory • Prima Games • Scholastic • Simon & Schuster (Pikachu Press) Collectible cards Artbox • ConceptLab • D.A.G Inc. • Edibas Collections • Excell Brands • Meiji • N-DESIGN Inc. • Studio Bora Inc. • Topps • Toyste Beach • whomor Inc. • Wizards of the Coast Manga Chuang Yi • Outland forlag • Panini Comics • Shogakukan (Shogakukan Asia) • VIZ Media Merchandise & retail Blokees • Funko • GameStop • Good Smile Company • Hasbro • Jakks Pacific • Jazwares • Jollibee • JR Kikaku • Keeppley • Kotobukiya • Play by Play • Re-Ment • Takara Tomy • Toy Factory • Uniqlo Video games Bandai Namco • Creatures, Inc. (Ambrella) • DeNA • Denyusha • Game Freak • HAL Laboratory, Inc. • Hudson Soft • ILCA • Jupiter Corporation • Koei Tecmo • Niantic • Nintendo (Mario Club • Nintendo of America • Nintendo System Development) • ORBITALLINK Inc. • PLANETA • Scopely • Sega • SELECT BUTTON inc. • Spike Chunsoft

This article is part of both Project Merchandise and Project Mass Media, Bulbapedia projects that, together, aim to write comprehensive articles on the production of Pokémon merchandise.