An anonymous donor has left a wad of cash worth US$131,000 (NT$4 million) in a public toilet in Japan, with instructions it be used to help victims of the March earthquake and tsunami, an official said last Thursday.
A plastic shopping bag, containing 10 million yen, was found on Sept. 22 in a toilet for disabled people in the city hall of Sakado, a commuter town north of Tokyo, a city official told AFP.
The city will give the money to the Japanese Red Cross if the anonymous donor doesn’t reclaim it within three months, city spokeswoman Masumi Sekiguchi said.
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She said a hand-written note was attached to the cash, reading: “I’m all alone. I have no future so let the people in Tohoku use it.”
Tohoku is the country’s northeast region devastated by the catastrophe that killed 20,000 people and triggered an emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
“There was no witness to the act and we cannot guess what kind of person has been involved,” she said. “We were really surprised. We also feel thankful for such kindness.”
(AFP)
日本官員上週四表示，一位匿名捐款者在日本一處公共廁所內，留下一大筆日圓現金，金額高達十三萬一千美元（約新台幣四百萬元），並留下一張紙條表達要用這筆錢幫助三月日本大地震與海嘯的災民。
（土反）戶市官員告訴法新社說，九月二十二日在市政廳內的殘障廁所，發現一只裝有一千萬日圓的塑膠購物袋。該市是鄰近東京的衛星城鎮。
（土反）戶市發言人關口真澄表示，若這位匿名捐獻者未在三個月內領回這筆款項，該市就會把它捐給日本紅十字會。
她說附在款項旁的手寫紙條上寫道：「我形單影隻。我沒有未來，所以就讓Tohoku災民用這筆錢吧。」
Tohoku是日本飽受災難摧殘的東北地區，有兩萬人罹難，並且觸發福島第一核電廠的警戒狀態。
關口表示：「沒有人目擊此善行，我們無法猜想捐獻者是什麼樣的人。」他說：「我們當時感到驚訝萬分。我們也感激這番善意。」
（法新社／翻譯：林亞蒂）
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