59-year-old woman arrested over theft of ¥120 from shrine donation box

Because of 120 yen now she will live from tax payer money.

Local media reported that Satsuki Suzuki, a part-time worker, is suspected of stealing the coins from a donation box at a shrine in Kamiyoshida, Fujiyoshida, at around 4:20 p.m. on Monday. A shrine official apprehended Suzuki and detained her until police arrived.

For being men of faith, exempt from the taxes that burden part time workers like Suzuki just getting by,the shrine official seems awfully tight-fisted.

Maybe if he had shown her some charity instead of calling the police?

Same old, Same old.

A woman is arrested for the theft of pittance, yet I've yet to see arrests in major political fund scandals involving ￥millions of the main perpetrators.

I think she should go the way of a deep bow, preferably 90 degrees held for 30 secs, with the standard "I shall seek the understanding of the people".

That always works.

And as a religious man of the community, perhaps the Shrine official could have used his wisdom and found another way to mitigate the situation.

Punish her to the full extent of the law! But what about the elected officials who have pilfered public funds for personal use? Well, that's different, isn't it?

Give her community service cleaning the shrine. Enquire about the state of her finances and whether she needs assistance. The shrine should be charitable and forgiving.

Seems like a cry for help - 120 yen?

what a great use of tax-payer funds. The shrine owner should have been arrested for wasting police time. Calling the cops for a "theft" of less than a dollar? Insanity.

Would still be much cheaper to give her an additional hundredfold amount and a warning not to come up with such a theft again.

Arrested for 120 JPY !?? must be kidding!!!!

At 59, she may have been desperately short by that amount possibly for a bottle of water then some snitch reported her, it's her money after all, she probably donate a lot more than that during her entire life.

she probably already prayed and asked for forgiveness and God as always did, but someone just could not, what kind of a world we now live in???

How sad. The Shrine should have stepped in and let her go.

Penny - Pinching Shrine.

This is Japan. People get arrested for stealing begger's money, while the LDP crooks are stealing billions of tax paying funds, and nobody bats an eye. Did anyone forgot already how LDP emptied the Japan's Pension Funds during Abe times, and nobody did even 1 day of prison to this moment??

Donation from people and you punish someone fr 120? wow