Hey all, just need some advice.
Yesterday, I found a wallet in the convenience store, and being the somewhat good citizen I am, I picked it up and brought it to the counter, told the store clerk it was dropped. We looked around, but no one was around. So I asked for the nearest police station.
My Japanese isn't that good, so he directed me somewhere which I assumed was the direction I was to go. Turned out it wasn't, and I couldn't find the police station.
Day was getting late, and I was quite in a bit of a rush, and to be completely honest, I didn't have the time or energy to play good Samaritan anymore. Then I got a call from my GF telling me that she was sick.
So I just left the wallet on a bench in the park conspicuously so that someone else could find it and bring it back to the owner properly before rushing off to take care of her.
I felt guilty about it, and went home and searched up the laws on lost and found in Japan, and it tells me that I'm legally obligated to return a wallet if I find it? Have I committed a crime?
Yesterday, I found a wallet in the convenience store, and being the somewhat good citizen I am, I picked it up and brought it to the counter, told the store clerk it was dropped. We looked around, but no one was around. So I asked for the nearest police station.
My Japanese isn't that good, so he directed me somewhere which I assumed was the direction I was to go. Turned out it wasn't, and I couldn't find the police station.
Day was getting late, and I was quite in a bit of a rush, and to be completely honest, I didn't have the time or energy to play good Samaritan anymore. Then I got a call from my GF telling me that she was sick.
So I just left the wallet on a bench in the park conspicuously so that someone else could find it and bring it back to the owner properly before rushing off to take care of her.
I felt guilty about it, and went home and searched up the laws on lost and found in Japan, and it tells me that I'm legally obligated to return a wallet if I find it? Have I committed a crime?