18 August,2011 11:38 AM IST | | ANI
Japanese people have proved their honesty by returning about 50 million pounds in cash found in the rubble left behind in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami to their owners
Japanese volunteers and rescue teams handed thousands of wallets and purses found in the debris and over 5,700 safes that were washed ashore along the coastline, to the police stations.
Police said nearly all the money found in the areas worst hit by the tsunami had been returned to its owners.
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Many people had kept bankbooks or land rights documents with their names and addresses in their safes.
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Koetsu Saiki, of the Miyagi Prefectural Police, said the process was still underway with handful of property being returned every week.
"In most cases, the keyholes on these safes were filled with mud. We had to start by cutting apart the metal doors with grinders and other tools", the Daily Mail quoted Saiki, as saying.
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"There must be some safes that were stolen after the quake. But the fact that a hefty 2.3 billion yen in cash has been returned to its owners shows the high level of ethical awareness in the Japanese people ", Yokohama University Ryuji Ito said.
