If you ever drop something while in Tokyo, before you go to ask the police, you may want to have a look at the local bill boards. These boards are called "Keijiban" [掲示板[けいじばん]] and are used to post information about local events such as fairs, roadworks etc. You may also find your missing belongings on the board as people would pin it there. And if you have not read it yet, read how I got my mobile phone back after leaving it on a train.
Hey! Neat piece of advice! One year so far and I still never know what's around my place. I will look for it to see what it says!
That's great, they even put someone's keys up there. IDK, I'd rather they just turned my stuff into the police.
Yeah, unless the police is actually complicating the matter (asking for proof and whatnot), then that's a better choice. ^^
Yeah, unless the police is actually complicating the matter (asking for proof and whatnot, like Danny's experience with wallet ^^), then that's a better choice.
Japan the only country in the world that if you lost something,70%+ you can recover it back~ Why cant other places like Japan?
somehow, japan has the funniest culture..from the worst, to the best. Nihon Banzai!! I wanna live there in future.. >_<
Haha, this reminds me of animal crossing somehow :).
So sociable, that would *never* happen here
People here would just take the lost items and claim it's theirs...
Well... finders keepers ain't that right? xP
in here is more like.... u want it, rob it though mostly is finder keeper since the cop will take it for themself even if we give them, which is meanless cop here is a pig
Lol, well 90% of the time I get my stuff back. The only thing I didn't was my old Gameboy, my airport KLM kit when I was younger, and my led light thats like a laser pointer that tells time. Ottawa is decent with lost items but not trustworthy in the area I live in. Japan sure is a strange nut to crack when trying to understand them 100%. Damn if only I could go to Japan blah.
*sighs* lostandfound hits it right on the spot. Unfortunately.
Do they pin lost kids up the buletin boards too? >_< LOL~
sadly, i dont think this will ever happen in where i am...
same here. amazing how civil minded japaneses are. ^^;
If only people were that curtious in America.. *sigh*
This is one of the things in Japan, that doesn't seem to exist anywhere else on earth. I wish we had similiar things in Sweden.
learned something new (^^)
That is so thoughtful and respectable. I wish it was like that for the entire world.
Yeah, I agree 100%. Although im guilty of keeping some things I find. Like pens and money etc.
It's always nice to find free stuff when you feel you're never rewarded with life. But again, what is the past of the item? What are the feelings of the one who lost it? Many things that modern societies teach us not to care about... So sad.
Well the few dollars I found always did look real sad and lonely. So they made friends with the moths in my empty wallet. : )
Me too, me too...
ya....this will never happen in los angeles...never
if only the world in general had this kinda mind set... the world would be better place...
lucky you dANNY ^^
Ppl in japan are nice enough to hang what the find on the street on the bill board? I think no one will do that in my region. =/
I left my mobile phone at the beach years ago, when I noticed it I called it over and over again but no one asnwered for about 2 hours. I trief it once again and some smaller kids answered that they had found the phone on a location I haven't been on that day. Fortunately they gave it back to me and there were some strange photos on it, someone made them and threw it away again after that o_O
It's because of stuff like that I want to live in Japan... If something like that was made here in Brazil, not only it would never have lost stuff there (because if you loose just about anything, it's not yours anymore, save extremely rare exceptions) but also, by the end of the first day that board would probably be filled with sex-related advertising (read prostitutes), completely sprayed with gang stuff, missing some piece... or maybe the whole board, to say the least.
Unlike here when you find stuff you keep it...Japan huh what do they teach to make tose people so honest...Lol my brother found $96 dollar on the ground, felt guilty and sorry but finder's keepers...
That's what I call amazing ^^, it means that people respect other people belongings. I wished that happened everywhere.
I think best thing to do is not to lose anything in the first place but accidents can happen. Whenever I carry bunch of stuffs and ride the train, I make sure I don't leave anything behind when I get off.
Singaporeans still have a long way to go. They shoud stat grading moral education so people can take it more seiusly...
Ah.., so that's where my gloves went, o_o..
I don't think this will work in Singapore in a long while.. I don't think that most people would kindly place the lost keys on the billboard.. I want to move to Japan.. :(
Woo. So much better than Singapore. I lost my LG phone in a Bus and on 1 seem to be willing to return it...T_T
