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Turning Japanese? 11 Months, 1 Week ago Karma: 19  



Toilet cash mystery grips Japan
People in Japan are puzzling over who has been leaving envelopes with 10,000 yen ($82; £40) notes in men's toilets across the country.
For months, some 4 million yen ($32,750) has been found in men's rooms from the northern island of Hokkaido to the southern island of Okinawa.

Most of the money has been found in government office buildings.

Each comes with a letter saying the giver hopes the money will be "useful for your pursuit of knowledge".



wooaaahhhhh!!! only in japan, what an attitude! I can say they are ASIANS WITH AN -A- ATTITUDE!
 
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Toilet cash mystery grips Japan
People in Japan are puzzling over who has been leaving envelopes with 10,000 yen ($82; £40) notes in men's toilets across the country.






The bills were individually wrapped in traditional Japanese paper with the word "remuneration" handwritten on the outside in ink, the Reuters news agency reports.





Shaky writing

The mystery has gripped the nation, with much media speculation about the identity of the unknown benefactor.

The only thing everyone agrees on, given where the money is found, is that the person leaving them is likely to be a man.

Handwriting experts say the letters are all written by the same person, whose shaky handwriting suggests somebody elderly or seriously ill.

They also note that the writing has worsened over the months since the first set of bills was found.

"The fact that the letters end with the phrase 'please be happy' points to somebody who's unhappy themselves - who's perhaps facing up to their death and wants to give something back to the world," the Asahi Shimbun quoted one expert as saying.

The police say that money handed into them will be given to the finders if nobody claims it within six months.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6294952.stm
 
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Instead of feeling happy, the japanese were gripped with uneasiness.....

People are very, very worried," he told us. "Put yourself in our shoes. We are very anxious."

The Japanese are very private people, and this money seems to be making them nervous.

Some fear it is tainted in some way, perhaps "hot" money from a robbery or some other criminal endeavour.

As we made our way to the location of the second "public donation", our taxi driver rubbished that idea.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6927297.stm

if cash flow from the sky in some impoverished village particularly in south east asia, i think most people will be happy..

but it was different in japan-

 
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heheh I just want to share that when I was younger I always wanted to be japanese! I would go---"when i grow up, I'd like to be Japanese!"

Japan in every sense of that word--it's location, the people, it's technology, it's silliness just keeps me up to speed and i definitely likey!
 
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Re:Turning Japanese? 8 Months, 3 Weeks ago Karma: 19  
booyaka wrote:
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heheh I just want to share that when I was younger I always wanted to be japanese! I would go---"when i grow up, I'd like to be Japanese!"

Japan in every sense of that word--it's location, the people, it's technology, it's silliness just keeps me up to speed and i definitely likey!


i wish i were a japanese too

my forebears use to say that japanese were
nasty and mean and bow-legged (world war 2 syndrome)

but on a freezing winter season when i
saw japan, years ago, i was mesmerized
by its beauty, and the people's cleanliness
discipline, progress and honesty-

i just thought,how i wsh i was born a japanese

ok- one japanese guy who happened to be
very fond of me had more sweet talks-
but that was a long story



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Re:Turning Japanese? 8 Months, 3 Weeks ago Karma: 19  

going back to society and culture, here is a very interesting feature about japan

Beasts become beaux in Japan

TOKYO - Hairy men don’t jive with romance or work in modern Japan, where more and more men are trying to overcome their embarrassment and are knocking on the doors of beauty salons in search of their better, more beautiful selves.


http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/ todaysfeatures/2007/October/todaysfeatures_October11.xml&amp; section=todaysfeatures&amp;col=
 
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