A short personal report from Tokyo Game Market, held April 28, 2013 Game Market is the biggest board game event in Japan, boasting about 5,000 visitors for this event – but visitors who come to Game Market expecting to see a "mini Spiel" or a "mini Gen Con" soon discover that it's something quite different from both. Game Market started as a flea market for board games, and while remnants of that
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