$330,000 found in Japan vacant house demolition
JAPAN: Construction workers dismantling a vacant house in
rural Japan discovered $330,000 cash stuffed in a tin box underneath the
living room floor, press reports said Wednesday.
The house, in a farming town on the northern island of Hokkaido, had
been empty since its elderly male owner died two years ago, the reports
said.
The cash -- about 2,600 notes each worth 10,000 yen ($127) bundled
together or put in envelopes -- will be handed over to the dead man’s
relatives on the main Japanese island of Honshu, the reports said.
“Because the cash was discovered at an individual’s house, it is
clear whose money it is,” a spokesman for the local police station said
by telephone. “So we don’t treat it as a lost-and-found case.”
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