You know there’s something going on when it starts raining money, but that’s exactly what happened in Japan last Wednesday. Almost one million yen mysteriously floated down from the sky in front of a Tokyo convenience store.

One crafty Japanese citizen phoned police to say that it was his daughter who had dropped the money from the top of the building, but his claim was rejected.

An act of God?

In one of the more bizarre stories to come out of a country renowned for bizarre stories, an unknown benefactor has been dishing out money to strangers for several weeks in Japan.

Unmarked envelopes stuffed with money have been left in the restrooms of numerous city halls and public buildings since June, while the latest wave of donations have been turning up in peoples’ mailboxes.

In Kobe last Wednesday, one confused 31-year-old woman woke up to find an envelope containing one million yen left in her mailbox. Nobody knows who is leaving the envelopes or why. It should be like a dream come true – money falling from the sky, wads of cash being left in mailboxes – but people are so baffled by the situation that they aren’t sure if they should take the money.

“We can just say the money came from the skies,” a police official said Wednesday. “There were other passers-by outside and customers in the store but the incident caused no confusion,” he said. “People thought it was too eerie to touch.” (AFP)

It’s amazing that an act such as giving away money could instill so much fear in people. The envelopes of money have been coming with letters asking the recipients to do good deeds.

One 67-year-old woman received the equivalent of about $85,000 in her mailbox. Why don’t things like this happen to me? I’m still waiting for Thailand’s copycat benefactor to step up.

Sourced and rewritten from AFP articles.

Techno’ tags: Japan, Tokyo, Bizarre