Garbagemen Find $100K, Turn it in to Cops

This is what an honest country Japan can be: garbage collectors found 10 million yen ($100K) in a discarded pot. Instead of keeping it for themselves, they contacted police and are now conducting a public search for its rightful owner.

Actually, they don't know it yet, but that cash was mine.

Comments

[nagaijin]

ah, but those garbagemen aren't so dumb. They'd be prime suspects if they kept the money and *nobody* wants to go to a Japanese prison! Besides, one of the reasons that everybody's so honest here (besides being really, really nice) is that under Japanese law, if nobody claims the money after a year, the finder gets it all. Also, if the owner does claim it, they have to give a 10% reward to the finders. I think the cops deduct it automatically if you're hesitant to do it yourself.