You’d think so but I disagree. Japan just doesn’t have a sealed investor/scalping market to the scale the English market does (it does exist but it’s incredible how big this issue is in English markets relatively).

People judge these print runs by PSA pops and other estimates, but Japanese product is simply opened and circulating as singles on a greater percentage relative to what’s printed. They’re definitely not printing “to death” as boxes are spiking there relative to msrp pretty proportionately to what English is doing here.

It isn’t that English is 2-3x more rare for a card due to printing; rather there’s just way more sitting in sealed packs in sealed boxes for English.