From: Brian Brokaw [brokaw@pojo.com]
Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 10:19 PM
To: Cyanide toxics
Subject: RE: a good question

> are japanese pokemon card compatible with the english? (size and other minor 
> problems)

The size is roughly the same, but the backs are totally different.
If you mixed english and japanese cards, you would need to use 
opaque-back card sleeves for all your cards, so they wouldn't be
"marked".

And of course the DCI only allows you to use japanese cards that you
own an english copy of.  So you cannot use cards that have not been
printed in english yet, and you cannot use cards that you do not
personally own and can show your opponent during a match.

Brian Brokaw