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Pok\u00e9mon sub-brand schedules event roughly six weeks after Pok\u00e9mon Center stabbing<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Pok\u00e9mon<\/strong> baby apparel and toy brand Monpok\u00e9<\/strong> is getting ready to open a popup store in the Tobu Department Store\u2019s Ikebukuro branch in downtown Tokyo<\/strong>. The Tobu branch is located in the same neighborhood as the Sunshine City shopping center, where on March 26 a woman working at the Pok\u00e9mon Center retail store was fatally stabbed by her ex-boyfriend<\/a>.<\/p>\n Following the incident, the Pok\u00e9mon Company announced that it would be scaling back in-store Pok\u00e9mon Center promotional events nationwide, including cancelling costumed character meet-and-greets for the month of April<\/a>. While the Monpok\u00e9 popup will be opening before the end of April, it\u2019ll be operating through early May, and has announced that it will be having meet-and-greets, suggesting that they\u2019re likely to return to Pok\u00e9mon Center stores around the same time.<\/p>\n The Monpok\u00e9 shop will be open from April 22 to May 6. There are no meet-and-greets during its first weekend, but on its second Sunday, May 3, both Pikachu and Eevee will be visiting to frolic with fans and pose for pictures<\/strong> in the building\u2019s rooftop Sky Deck Plaza.<\/p>\n It does appear that the organizers are looking to keep the environment controlled, with participation limited to 30 \u201cgroups\u201d of shoppers at each of the three 30-minute events, scheduled for 11 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m. (it\u2019s currently unclear how many people will be allowed per group). Still, the announcement of the Monpok\u00e9 store\u2019s meet-and-greets coming roughly two weeks after the stabbing demonstrates that the company feels ready to start holding such events again, and with Japan\u2019s Golden Week vacation period coming up from April 29 to March 6, an early-March reinstatement of such events at Pok\u00e9mon Center branches seems likely as well.<\/p>\n Source: PR Times<\/a> via Ikebukuro Keizai Shimbun<\/a><\/em> Pok\u00e9mon sub-brand schedules event roughly six weeks after Pok\u00e9mon Center stabbing. Pok\u00e9mon baby apparel and toy brand Monpok\u00e9 is getting ready to open a popup store in the Tobu Department…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/pe-2.jpg?w=500\")
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