Konnichiwa Mina-san!
This is a true story that happened about six months ago.
My father likes to take photos and often goes to Kyoto . One day, my father came back from Kyoto and said that he had lost his cell phone.
My father went to the temple office where he thought he had dropped it, but the missing mobile phone was nowhere to be found.
He reported the loss to the police, but the phone was never found.
He went home that day without finding his phone, and told us the story of how he lost his phone.
I asked my father, "why didn't you call your cell phone?"
My father asked, "why?"
"You call a cell phone, and someone who picks up the phone answers. And you can ask "where are you?" for the someone. That's where you dropped your phone."
"Ah, I didn't think of that."
My father called his cell phone from his house phone. The person who answered his cell phone was from the temple office.
When he visited the temple office, the lost phone had not yet been found. However, shortly afterwards, a tourist found the phone and hand over it to the temple office.
When he say to the temple office that "I would pick it up the next day", I screamed.
着払いで送ってもらって! "Send it to you cash on delivery!"
The shipping cost is cheaper than a round trip to Kyoto. And My father go to Kyoto almost every week, but it's tiring to go there every day. Besides, if he is going to Kyoto anyway, he want to go and take pictures of a different temple.
He requested delivery and the phone arrived at his home the next day. He sent a thank-you letter along with a small gift to the temple office.
In Japan, it is well known that if you lose your wallet or cell phone, it will be returned to you. In fact, my father lost his cell phone in a tourist spot in Kyoto and it was returned to him.
However, this is a lucky story. It doesn't necessarily mean that your lost items will be returned.
A friend of mine lost her cell phone a year ago (maybe two years ago). There was a function to find the location of a dropped cell phone, so she used it to find the location of her cell phone.
携帯は、高速道路を爆走していた"Cell phones were running wild on the highway."
The phone has likely been resold and was on the highway to a new owner.
Her phone was an expensive iPhone, so it probably resold. She gave up on trying to get it back and ended up buying the latest iPhone(Her lost iPhone was an older generation).
Lesson learned: Sometimes lost items are not returned, and sometimes they are. First of all, don't drop anything.
If you lose your cell phone, call your cell phone first. If you can find the location of your phone, find out its current location. If you don't have a any phone, you can use phone at the police station. If you remember where you lost it, it's also important to contact the office at that facility.
If you still can't find it, report it lost to the police.
Lost report form
from Metropolitan Police Department
遺失届の書き方
from MAMORIOラボ
NANGI
This is a true story that happened about six months ago.
My father likes to take photos and often goes to Kyoto . One day, my father came back from Kyoto and said that he had lost his cell phone.
My father went to the temple office where he thought he had dropped it, but the missing mobile phone was nowhere to be found.
He reported the loss to the police, but the phone was never found.
He went home that day without finding his phone, and told us the story of how he lost his phone.
I asked my father, "why didn't you call your cell phone?"
My father asked, "why?"
"You call a cell phone, and someone who picks up the phone answers. And you can ask "where are you?" for the someone. That's where you dropped your phone."
"Ah, I didn't think of that."
My father called his cell phone from his house phone. The person who answered his cell phone was from the temple office.
When he visited the temple office, the lost phone had not yet been found. However, shortly afterwards, a tourist found the phone and hand over it to the temple office.
When he say to the temple office that "I would pick it up the next day", I screamed.
着払いで送ってもらって! "Send it to you cash on delivery!"
The shipping cost is cheaper than a round trip to Kyoto. And My father go to Kyoto almost every week, but it's tiring to go there every day. Besides, if he is going to Kyoto anyway, he want to go and take pictures of a different temple.
He requested delivery and the phone arrived at his home the next day. He sent a thank-you letter along with a small gift to the temple office.
In Japan, it is well known that if you lose your wallet or cell phone, it will be returned to you. In fact, my father lost his cell phone in a tourist spot in Kyoto and it was returned to him.
However, this is a lucky story. It doesn't necessarily mean that your lost items will be returned.
A friend of mine lost her cell phone a year ago (maybe two years ago). There was a function to find the location of a dropped cell phone, so she used it to find the location of her cell phone.
携帯は、高速道路を爆走していた"Cell phones were running wild on the highway."
The phone has likely been resold and was on the highway to a new owner.
Her phone was an expensive iPhone, so it probably resold. She gave up on trying to get it back and ended up buying the latest iPhone(Her lost iPhone was an older generation).
Lesson learned: Sometimes lost items are not returned, and sometimes they are. First of all, don't drop anything.
If you lose your cell phone, call your cell phone first. If you can find the location of your phone, find out its current location. If you don't have a any phone, you can use phone at the police station. If you remember where you lost it, it's also important to contact the office at that facility.
If you still can't find it, report it lost to the police.
Lost report form
from Metropolitan Police Department
遺失届の書き方
from MAMORIOラボ
NANGI
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