Monday, February 16, 2015

How Honest Are The Japanese? Tokyo citizens hand in $36 million in lost cash

Trustworthy Tokyo residents handed in 3.34 billion yen ($36 million) of lost cash last year, police say, with three quarters of it returned to its rightful owner, in the latest example of Japan's startling honesty.
They included one seemingly incorruptible person who, according to the Sports Nippon, found a sports bag stuffed with notes worth $199,000, enough to buy a Maserati GranTurismo MC, or a small apartment in the Japanese capital.
Nearly 74 per cent of the total cash found in the year was eventually returned to the people who lost it, a police spokeswoman said – including the holdall full of money.
 I once thought that I'd lost my wallet and went to the police station at the train station to report its lose.  While the officer was taking my details a person walked into the station with my wallet. It was lost for a total of 15 minutes.  The person said they'd found it at an ATM. 

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