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April 11th, 2011 08:22 PM #13
I can imagine lang if this thing happened in this country...Pati pulis, siguradong uubusin lahat. Yung safe nga, sigurado diretso sa junk shop pagkatapos...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110411/...ake_lost_money
Safes, cash wash up on Japan shores after tsunami
OFUNATO, Japan – There are no cars inside the parking garage at Ofunato police headquarters. Instead, hundreds of dented metal safes, swept out of homes and businesses by last month's tsunami, crowd the long rectangular building.
Any one could hold someone's life savings.
Safes are washing up along the tsunami-battered coast, and police are trying to find their owners — a unique problem in a country where many people, especially the elderly, still stash their cash at home. By one estimate, some $350 billion worth of yen doesn't circulate.
There's even a term for this hidden money in Japanese: "tansu yokin." Or literally, "wardrobe savings."
Identifying the owners of lost safes is hard enough. But it's nearly impossible when it comes to wads of cash being found in envelopes, unmarked bags, boxes and furniture.
Yasuo Kimura, 67, considers himself one of the lucky ones. The tsunami swallowed and gutted his home in Onagawa, about 50 miles (75 kilometers) south of Ofunato. He escaped with his 90-year-old father and the clothes on his back. But he still has money in the bank.
That's not the case for many of his longtime friends and acquaintances, said Kimura, a former bank employee.
"I spent my career trying to convince them to deposit their money in a bank," he said, staring out at his flattened city. "They always thought it was safer to keep it at home."
And the safes are likely to keep on coming.
"There's probably a lot of valuables still left in the rubble, including safes," Fujii said. "We are expecting and preparing for that."
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April 12th, 2011 10:09 AM #15and another this morning
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_japan_earthquake
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April 12th, 2011 01:04 PM #16
Buhay na buhay ang BGC this evening. Bukas halos lahat ng restaurants. Sabi pa nung isang cashier...
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