The pure gold bowl stolen from a Tokyo department store was resold for more than 4 million yen ($25,800), more than double the price the suspected thief got in the first sale, police said.

A thief brazenly made off with a tea bowl of pure gold with a 10.4-million-yen ($68,000) price tag during a sales event held at the upscale Takashimaya department store in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi ...