(UPDATE) TOKYO — Lost your umbrella, keys or perhaps a flying squirrel? In Tokyo, the police are almost certainly taking meticulous care of it.
In Japan, lost items are rarely disconnected from their owners for long, even in a megacity like Tokyo, which has a population of 14 million.
NICE AND NEAT An employee works on thousands of items — all bagged, tagged and organized based on where and when they were lost — at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo, Japan, on Aug. 2, 2024. AFP PHOTO