Learning Practical Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! You’re in Japan. You lose your wallet. There’s ￥15,000 and your ID in it. What do you do? Panic? Of course not, because you studied this lesson! After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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18 Responses to “Premium Lesson #21 - SS17: Lost Property”
JapanesePod101.com says:
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Mina-san, what’s the most expensive or scariest thing you’ve lost? Did you get it back?
Fangs says:
April 26th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
財布！I had just landed in Japan the night before for a new job so I had my passport, Social Security Card, gaijin card, and way too much cash. Visions flashed before my eyes of having to live in Osakajo koen. Luckily the マスターさん noticed and held on to it until I came back. ホンマに助かった。
BTW, what happened to the Niigata dialect lessons? Are you going to do other dialects as well? I want to learn some Kagoshima-ben!
VGcat says:
April 27th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Whoo-hoo… Now I know that if I get a bike in Japan I need to get it registered. 
OH well, I’ll still enjoy Japan if I go there 
markystar says:
April 27th, 2008 at 3:35 am
Fangsさん、 more dialect lessons are on the way! very soon we’ll have a 3 part series on Okayama-ben, one of the rougher Kansai dialects. from your situation, sounds like you’ll be into this one a lot!!
(btw - 薩摩弁 (kagoshima dialect) is VERY HIGH on my to do list, finding the right people is the hard part. but it WILL be covered in due time!! 
VGcatさん、
registering your bike is not a difficult thing. and not so expensive! for the price of 2 baskets of fruit or less, you can register a bike. plus if your bike is registered, if some drunk guy takes it accidentally, you can get it back very easily. so it’s in your best interest to register it!
as for the worst thing i lost…
i had an iPod mini back in the day with a paul smith case. i think they cost the same. i went to a matsuri and somehow in the crowd it fell off and i lost both. ５万円位みたいだったし。最悪だったわー。
but i learned an important lesson, always make sure your valuable, portable electronics are on you at all times.
sean somers says:
April 27th, 2008 at 5:45 am
No video vocab for this one either, guys — and still no video vocab for upper intermediate lesson 16, nor for newbie lesson 71. I hope you’ll excuse the increased harshness in my tone, but you really shouldn’t be charging premium prices if you can’t deliver the premium services. I don’t need an apology: I’d just like to see the proper supplementary materials up and available for your clients.
markystar says:
April 27th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
>>What would be the fine for stealing a bike might I ask?
LOL. not sure, i haven’t tried it yet! 
sean somersさん、i completely agree and we’re working out the kinks. things should be sorted soon! 申し訳ございません
プチクレア says:
April 27th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I think bike registration is a great idea. Does it really raise the chances of getting your bike back if it’s stolen ?
On the whole, what are the odds or getting your property back if you lose something (ie on a train) in Japan ?
Allan says:
April 27th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
When my family and I were visitng a tourist shop at a popular castle in Kyushu, I left my wallet with about 100,000 yen on the counter. I didn’t realise until a couple of hours and about two hundred kilometres car travel had gone by. In Australia, I would never see it again. However, a ccustomer had noticed the wallet and handed it to the staff who kept it for me until three days later when I could drive back and collect it.
I’ve travelled in a few Asian and Pacific countries and was very impressed with the honesty of everyone we met in Japan. 
Liz21 says:
April 28th, 2008 at 1:47 am
When I stayed at a hotel in Tokyo in 2004, I left a mostly full package of cigarettes in the hotel room. I had given up smoking, but the events had been so exciting and I was alone so I bought a pack of cigarettes, which I could barely smoke because my lungs weren’t used to it. I left the cigarettes there, thinking that the maid might like them.
Lo and behold! In a few weeks I received a visit from my friend in Japan, from my former host family, whose address I had given at the hotel. To my acute embarrassment, he had a package with the cigarettes in it! 
Also included were tourist items WHICH I HAD NOT BOUGHT!!! Another guest had probably left them. Anyway, the hotel had contacted my former host family about these items, had sent them to their house and my friend brought them to me! This could NEVER happen in America (”Finders keepers losers weepers”)
Naomi says:
April 28th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
VGcatーsan
I think it depends on how it was stolen and whether it’s one’s first conviction or not.
I’ve just sent e-mail to my friend who works for Tokyo metropolitan police and asked how much the fine would be for stealing money. So ちょっとお待ちください。
markobe8 says:
April 28th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
hello japanesepod101.com
hmm for me, so far my most expensive thing that i have lost is my celphone.. not only one, not two.. but five 
(well im unlucky when it comes to celphone, almost every two years i accidentally lost my celphone)
btw.. premium lesson is really great, also known as sights and sounds, each lesson ia a full packed especially in the pdf section.. thanks for the details in each of every lesson, me too i have also suggestion in pdf section with regards to premium lessons.. hmm i dont know if this was already suggested but anyway here it is.. Is it possible to add the pictures in the pdf file? maybe it will be a good idea to include the picture in the pdf, to have a smooth and simultaneous review/study of each premium lessons..
Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu
markobe8 
Sasquatchua says:
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:08 am
Markyさん, I was thinking something similar - except that with my tiny Nano I don’t think I can read PDFs. I was thinking of asking if the artwork screen accompanying the track that usually has the JPod101 meiko picture could be replaced with the premium picture being discussed. Then I could click over to the picture while still listening to the lesson!
markystar says:
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:00 am
thanks for that!
it’s an interesting idea, i’ll discuss it with the others today!
Abrassart says:
May 6th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Hi, nice lesson as usual.
I have a bike, but… hum… it’s not registered. So if the cops ask me if it’s my bike, what should I say? Any advice? “I don’t speak Japanese”?
ラヒム says:
June 12th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Alright, so I’m behind on the lessons since I’ve been traveling, so I just got to this lesson and I doubt anyone will read this comment since it’s been so long since this lesson was posted, but I’ll write it anyway.
This actually happened while I was in Japan around the same time! I was in Tokyo for the first few weeks of April for the hanami, and my friend lost his wallet somewhere in Ginza. To make matters worse, he didn’t even realize he lost it until we were at the Tokyo tower later that night!
We ended up having to go back to Ginza and retrace his steps (asking the people in the train stations along the way, just in case he lost it on the train). By the time we got to the Sony store (one of the places he visited earlier in the day), they were closed, but the guard on duty told us that he had found it and turned it in to the police box across the street. After filling out some forms and showing his passport, he had his wallet back with everything still in it! The whole ordeal definitely put my Japanese to the test!
Allan: he was also amazed by how honest people in Tokyo are. If he had lost his wallet in LA, I’m pretty sure the story would not have ended happily…
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Grammar: iru, shimau, te iru, te shimau | Function: asking about lost items | Topic: lost & found, police, Shibuya, wallet | Politeness Level: casual, Polite
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