{"id":1555,"date":"2011-04-25T11:02:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T15:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2011-04-27T11:42:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T15:42:19","slug":"finders-keepers-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/2011\/04\/finders-keepers-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Finders Keepers in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFinders keepers \u2026losers weepers.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 This is a saying that I frequently heard growing up and one that I often used myself. If I found a quarter by the side of the road it was \u201cFinders keepers\u2026.\u201d and the quarter went into my pocket.\u00a0 In Japanese society there seems to be no such concept. My daughters attended Japanese pre- school\/kindergarten and were taught that if you find anything that is not yours, you should try to find the owner. Our eldest daughter, Kristina, once found a purse with the equivalent of about seven cents. She and I took it to the police station and the policemen had us fill out some paperwork and then thanked her for turning it in.<\/p>\n<p>People in the west have been amazed that there have been almost no reports of looting in the earthquake and tsunami devastated areas.\u00a0 The village of Minami Souma is only about 15 miles from the Fukushima nuclear reactors and many people have left the area. We made a brief stop there on our recent visit.\u00a0 In the midst of all of the rubble people have been looking for items that might have value to their owners. We found a small shed by the side of the road where these items have been placed, so that their owners might be able to retrieve them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1558\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/Shed-with-found-items1.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[1555]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1558\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1558 \" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/Shed-with-found-items1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shed with found items<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=1555&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFinders keepers \u2026losers weepers.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 This is a saying that I frequently heard growing up and one that I often used myself. If I found a quarter by the side of the road it was \u201cFinders keepers\u2026.\u201d and the quarter went into my pocket.\u00a0 In Japanese society there seems to be no such concept. My daughters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-relief","tag-japan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Finders Keepers in Japan - CWR Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/2011\/04\/finders-keepers-in-japan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Finders Keepers in Japan - CWR Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cFinders keepers \u2026losers weepers.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 This is a saying that I frequently heard growing up and one that I often used myself. 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