found a suica card today
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Tokyo, 2020.08.08
I found Suica card with a recent date on the street. The cards are the prepaid cash cards used for transit systems but also for all manner of retail and online shopping. I turned the card in at the local police box and they asked if I wanted to put my name down for a reward. After turning that down, Mari told me they ask because sometimes those cards are loaded with millions of yen!
Millions of yen (tens of thousands of dollars) on a card you can (and do) drop?