Unemployed Japanese finds 10,000 dlrs in mailbox<br>
Fri Mar 28, 6:16 AM ET<br><br><br>
An unemployed man in Japan had an unexpected windfall in his mailbox when he found one million yen (10,000 dollars) in cash from an anonymous benefactor, police said Friday.<br>
The 61-year-old man discovered the wad of cash last week along with a slip of paper with the message, "Please make use of this in your everyday life," written with a black ballpoint pen.<br>
But instead of following the advice, the jobless man in the ancient capital of Nara in western Japan turned over the gift to police.<br>
The sender has until June 27 to claim the money or the unemployed man will get it.<br>
Along with the letter, the envelope contained a partial photocopy of a map of nearby Osaka without any address marked or further explanation.<br>
"He has absolutely no clue who it is," a police official said.<br>
Japan has seen a string of cases in which large sums of cash have been left anonymously in people's mailboxes or public restrooms.<br>
The largest single drop-off so far was in the city of Kyoto last year, astonishing a 67-year-old woman who found an envelope containing 10 million yen of stacked bills in her mailbox.
Fri Mar 28, 6:16 AM ET<br><br><br>
An unemployed man in Japan had an unexpected windfall in his mailbox when he found one million yen (10,000 dollars) in cash from an anonymous benefactor, police said Friday.<br>
The 61-year-old man discovered the wad of cash last week along with a slip of paper with the message, "Please make use of this in your everyday life," written with a black ballpoint pen.<br>
But instead of following the advice, the jobless man in the ancient capital of Nara in western Japan turned over the gift to police.<br>
The sender has until June 27 to claim the money or the unemployed man will get it.<br>
Along with the letter, the envelope contained a partial photocopy of a map of nearby Osaka without any address marked or further explanation.<br>
"He has absolutely no clue who it is," a police official said.<br>
Japan has seen a string of cases in which large sums of cash have been left anonymously in people's mailboxes or public restrooms.<br>
The largest single drop-off so far was in the city of Kyoto last year, astonishing a 67-year-old woman who found an envelope containing 10 million yen of stacked bills in her mailbox.
