Why can lost items in Japan be returned to their owners?

Let's explore the secrets of lost and found journeys of purses in Japan.

People often uphold the safety of Japanese society, where you can fall asleep in sidewalks or trams after a long day of work. Even the police used to be free to handle the small cases like stealing a grape.

And one of the most well-known "legends" about Japan is: If you lose your wallet, don't worry too much because they'll find it! Is this true as rumor?

Many people will answer yes! According to statistics from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in 2017, a total of nearly 4 million dropped documents and articles were handed over to the police.

Meanwhile, the number of reported loss of assets is about 1 million 20 thousand cases. It can be seen that the number of falls is found to be four times as many lost assets. It means that Japanese people tend to want to return things, even if the owner has given up hope.

The umbrella is waiting for the owner in the police station.

Of course, Japanese people do not always find dropped items. But compared to many parts of the world, the rate is truly amazing, Tokyo police estimate that 73.2% of cash has returned to "miserable" !

According to Live Japan site, the total amount of people collected and submitted to the police in 2017 amounted to 75.5 million yen, equivalent to VND 15.7 billion, really huge!

Such terrible numbers of course have many deep causes. If you think purely the wallet found is due to honesty, it is not very accurate .

First cause: The law specifies the submission of the fall and postponement

Japanese law requires that anyone who picks up a fall must return it to the owner or hand it over to the police, regardless of the value of the item . After that, if the item is found, the law also requires the person who lost it to be "at least 5% and at most 20% of the property value for the person who picked it up".

Every day a lot of people come to the police to give the return of falling.

After the police took the fall, they will be posted on the website within 3 months (if the item was buried, the time will increase to 6 months). After this time, if no one receives it, the person who picked it up will be the new owner of the item. The only exception is cell phones, drivers' licenses and other personal documents / objects that will continue to be kept by the police.

And because the law stipulates that people have to submit all expensive or cheap items , every day the police also receive dozens of ordinary umbrellas, clothes, jewelry . If after 2 weeks the items This low value no one will accept, they will return to the new owner or be destroyed.

Thanks to these strict regulations, Japanese people are always quick to alert the police when they lose things. On the contrary, they are also aware of the law when they find things that do not belong to them.

Second cause: Japanese moral values ​​uphold honesty

Japanese children have been taught to surrender of falling, do not arise greed.

Just like many other countries in the world, from elementary school, Japanese children have been taught to surrender of falling, not arising greed but turning it into its own.

These lessons are repeated many times, plus a high sense of discipline, so in general, Japanese people believe that the submission of falling is "normal, common code of conduct, nothing to discuss or threshold. tomb"!

The third reason : according to Japanese tradition, the perception that if a greed arises will be punished by the Holy Spirit

Japanese people believe that if they wear clothes or use other people's things without consent, they will be punished.

In Japan, the belief that "all things are Gods" (every object has a God behind protection, accompanied by interesting legends and traditions) has profoundly influenced morality and way. living of people.

Japanese people believe that if they wear clothes or use other people's things without consent, they will be punished. And to this day, the Japanese philosophy of Shinto is still very influential.

Moreover, since childhood, Japanese children have been taught to imagine how much it would worry if I lost my wallet or souvenir.

Since then, putting yourself in someone else's position to feel has become a deep thought in the minds of cherry blossoms.

Interim

Just as many people think, Japanese people are highly respectful of honesty. But besides, their laws also strictly regulate the "finding of falling and returning lost people". This seems only in the land of the rising sun, while Britain, the United States, Germany, Canada and many other countries only hand over police of high value assets.

Combined with law, morality is also a way of thinking and behaving according to Shinto, according to the unique culture of Phu Tang. Many of these reasons have joined each other, making people often want to return of falling so as not to be embarrassed, not wrong with the law as well as "pleased" both in life and in the Spirit.

Whether in Japan or anywhere else, try to protect your belongings carefully.

However, nothing is perfect in the world. You know, in Japanese streets, the most vulnerable things are not money or phones but bicycles and cheap plastic ones! Life that, on rainy days, makes it easy to lose the box outside the convenience store like playing. So, whether in Japan or anywhere else, try to protect your belongings carefully!