If you come to Japan on vacation or on a business trip and happen to lose some article,
or if you realize after you get back home that you've lost something across the ocean,
do you just give up convincing yourself that that's life?
Well, now the situation will be a bit different: things might become easier for you to look for it than before.
The following is a brief citation from the Nikkei Newspaper:
"March 7th - The Japanese Government has decided on the revision of the ordination of lost and found in order to review as well as to lighten the management of reported articles - well over 10 million a year - and to improve the efficiency of returning them to the owners. The core ideas include full equipment of nationwide online management and search system of lost and found articles, and the shortening of the storage period from six months to three.
Disabling finders to claim ownership to articles with personal information input such as cell phones, PCs, various kinds of cards and so on, is another significant point of this revision.
The revision of the present law enacted in 1899 is the first time in nearly half a century after its first revision in 1958. As well as the revison of the contents of the ordinance, the language itself will be modified into "modern Japanese" from the present classic text. The government seeks the revised law to pass the Diet during the current Diet session, and to enact it by the end of 2007.
The reviewed ordinance presupposes the construction of a system enabling nationwide Internet search of lost and found information including the follwing provisions:
1) The announcement on the police headquarters' homepages of lost and found information (date, place, characteristics of the article) gathered from district police offices
2) All-points notice of "valuable" articles."
As I first mentioned in the beginning, the establishment of this system really helps when you want to look for something you lost in your travel destination or something you don't exactly know when or where you lost it. I think it saves a lot of time, money and trouble if you can search for what you lost on the net spread nationwide.
The thing that worries me though, is that frauds might (or will, more likely) increase claiming ownership to articles that have been found even though that person is not the real owner. The problem becomes worse cuz you can claim the thing is yours to articles found across the country, so identification becomes an even more serious issue. Well, I bet they're of course considering solutions for such outcomes of course. And I'm afraid you can't expect foreign language service from very the beginning :-( Well, you never know.
So, can I also search for my pure and innocent heart that I lost sometime somewhere???lol
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