July 28
A mystery gripping Japan over anonymous cash gifts has taken a new twist. For those who want the next batch of giveaways, the place to look is in their mailboxes -- or even right at their feet.

Residents of a Tokyo apartment building are baffled after a total of 1.81 million yen (15,210 dollars) was found in 18 mailboxes by Saturday.

But residents became "spooked" rather than pleased with the anonymous gifts -- and were too upright to pocket the money secretly.

An envelope with one million yen was left in the mailbox of a 31-year-old woman in the western city of Kobe on Wednesday.

Since June, dozens of city halls and other public buildings across the country have reported finding neatly packaged envelopes full of cash in men's restrooms.

The bathroom money has come with identical letters asking people to do good deeds -- leading to speculation that the benefactor may be a public servant trying to cheer up his profession or perhaps a member of a new-age religion.

On Wednesday, bills worth 960,000 yen were inexplicably seen "falling" in front of a convenience store.

People thought it was too eerie to touch.

The largest single dropoff so far was in the ancient city of Kyoto on July 23, astonishing a 67-year-old woman who found an envelope containing 10 million yen of stacked bills in her mailbox.

A woman walking on a bridge over Tokyo's Sumida River told officers that she saw bills falling at her feet from an elevated expressway above on July 6.

Media tallies suggest more than four million yen, including some found last year, has been found in the public restrooms.
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I gotta go to Japan.

haha I tell you, if that happened here no one would be afraid to touch that money. I doubt most people would even report finding the cash in their mailboxes.