Japanese police say people have returned $78 million in missing cash after quake

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Japanese police say people have returned $78 million in missing cash after quake. "The fact that a hefty 2.3 billion yen in cash has been returned to its owners shows the high level of ethical awareness in the Japanese people,"

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In the five months since a devastating earthquake struck, Japanese police say they've received $78 million in missing cash and valuables that citizens have found in the rubble and promptly turned in.Thousands of missing wallets contained $48 million in cash, and nearly 6,000 more safes turned in by volunteers contained an extra $30 million, the Japanese Police Agency told ABC News' Akiko Fujita. Most of the found money has been returned to its owners, after police used identifying documents in the safes to track them down.
"The fact that these safes were washed away meant the homes were washed away too," Koetsu Saiki of the Miyagi Prefectural police force told ABC News. "We had to first determine if the owners were alive, then find where they had evacuated to."

Some wallets and safes were most likely pocketed, but the scale of honesty in the wake of disaster is still striking.
"The fact that a hefty 2.3 billion yen in cash has been returned to its owners shows the high level of ethical awareness in the Japanese people," Ryuji Ito, professor emeritus at Yokohama City University, told The Daily Mail.



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sardarji

Citizen
THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN IN A MUSLIM COUNTRY LIKE PAKISTAN . IN AFGANISTAN taliban wiill fight anyone for money.NO MUSLIM LEADER will ever give up his seat without being toppled ie Syria,Libya,Afganistan,WELL MOST MUSLIM COUNTRIES..Hasan Nisar was right the other night on 11th hour when he said that all this grandeur of being a muslim is all hype. He said that a muslim can never go into S/ARABIA and buy property , its only in infidel countries like UK that we can be free to do what we like.Since ramadan has started look around at how many muslims have been killed buy fellow muslims karachi,iraq,libya,syria etc etc Only yesterday there was an attack on jews in southern israel and there was a swift reply by IDF .Just look at how united the jews are because they are genuine and a small tiny army can crush anything the big muslim world can throw at them.lets be honest the only time we are united is during that half an hour during friday prayers thats on the condition we aint bombed by a suicide bomber(one of our own).when a non muslim converts to islam look at how we make a big issue out of it, i say big mistake you would have been better off before.normaly the convert is a white woman its all a joke.




Butt Saab you are being generous.We Muslims are no match to the great Japanese nation.God has tested them somany times ie nke bombs ,tsunami yet they always prevail all we do is tell 1500 year old stories yet most of us don't even know our great grand parents names.Our pir are fake our everything is fake.Our promisis are fake,our leaders are fake.No 2 muslim countries are on brotherly terms even our friendship is fake.
 
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