After a record number of lost and found items were handed in to it last year, Tokyo police are looking into ways to keep such items from going to waste.
In 2024, the Metropolitan Police Department received some 4.756 million lost items recovered in the Japanese capital.
While about 30% of such items are usually returned to their owners, those not collected during the police storage period or whose owners have given up ownership belong to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
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