International Media Coverage About Honest Japanese People
Japan’s Asahi TV reports about some of the English language media coverage of about Japanese people turning in cash they found in tsunami wreckage:
Honest Japanese return £50million found in earthquake rubble to tsunami victims
Their honesty was revealed as Britain’s courts are clogged scores of looters following the orgy of theft that accompanied last week’s riots.
In the five months since the disaster struck, people have turned in thousands of wallets and purses found in the debris, containing nearly £30million in cash.
More than 5,700 safes that washed ashore along the coastline have also been hauled to police stations by volunteers and rescue crews.
Inside them officials found about £20million in cash. In one safe alone, there was the equivalent of £600,000.
It’s a weird pattern: the domestic Japanese media was probably first to report about the money, then foreign media picked up the story, and then the Japanese got to pat themselves on the back by mentioning the positive foreign media coverage of the same story.
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