日本公廁又現匿名捐款 1000萬日元贈海嘯受難者

An anonyMous donor in Japan has left 10m yen ($131,000; £83,000) to charity by dumping it in a public toilet。

The money was found with a letter saying it should be donated to victims of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March。

The neatly wrapped bills were found in a plastic shopping bag in a toilet for disabled people in the city hall of Sakado in the Tokyo suburbs。

The note read: "I am all alone and have no use for the money."

The City Hall said it would hand the money to the Red Cross if it was not reclaimed within three months。

City officials said the anonymous donor had slipped in and out unnoticed。

The BBC's says the earthquake and tsunami that devastated north-eastern coastal areas in March has brought out striking examples of generosity and honesty。

The equivalent of $50m in cash has been picked up in the disaster area and handed over to the police. Another $30m was recovered from safes found in the rubble。

It is not the first time that anonymous benefactors in Japan have chosen toilets to leave cash. In 2007, 400 blank envelopes containing 10,000-yen notes were found in the toilets of local council buildings across the country。

At the same time, 18 residents of a Tokyo apartment building found a total of 1.8m yen stuffed into envelopes in their mailboxes。

Nearby, 1m yen was apparently thrown from an apartment block above a local shop。

Most of that money appears to have been handed in to the police. The mysterious benefactor was never found。據英國廣播公司9月29日報道，日本一匿名捐贈者將1000萬日元(約合13.1萬美元， 8.3萬英鎊)給慈善機構的捐款放在一公共廁所內。

這筆錢被發現時還附有一封信，信上說，這筆錢是捐給日本3月份地震海嘯受害者的。

這些包裝整齊的款單被裝在一個塑料購物袋內，放在東京郊外阪戶市市政大廈的一個殘疾人公廁。

信上還寫道：“我是孤身一人，這些錢沒有用。”

市政府說，如果這筆錢三個月內還無人認領就將它捐給紅十字會。

市政府官員說，這個匿名捐贈者是悄悄地進來的，並沒人注意到。

英國廣播公司評論說，三月份日本東北海岸的地震海嘯發生後涌現出很多慷慨誠實的典範人物。

迄今爲止，已經在地震災區發現了約合5000萬美元的匿名現金捐款，還有3000萬美元捐款在廢墟中的保險箱內被發現。

在日本公廁內發現匿名捐款並不是第一次了，早在2007年，在日本境內400個地市政府大樓的公廁內發現了分別裝有一萬日元的捐款和便條。

與此同時，位於東京的一個公寓樓的18戶居民發現其郵箱中的信封有捐款，共合計爲180萬日元。

前不久，從當地一家商店上面的公寓樓內扔出100萬日元。

這些錢大都被交給了警方，但至今尚未找到那些神祕的捐款人。