Company employee robbed of ¥10 mil

Yeah, it’s hard to believe that these 2 fellows were mugging a random person. As for cash being carried around, I was once standing behind a person in the post-office, who took out 8 million yen out of his savings account for everybody else to hear and see, put it in a paper bag and walked out and nobody blinked an eye, so probably not unusual here.

Are there no armored car services in Japan?

Was he actually robbed. The time and place seem a little odd. How would anybody know he was leaving his home at 9:30am on a Saturday and carrying a hundred grand? He was either in on the robbery or staged the whole thing to pocket the cash.

inside job!

Naw, no, no, something does not sound right.

Why was he leaving his residence at 09:30 with 10,000.000 yen ?? Did he keep it with him over night at his apartment ?? And who would know he had that much money with him when he left his apartment - His wife ??

@Do the hustle

So you believe that they just happened to be waiting outside of his home, and he just happened to be carrying ￥10,000,000 ($90k to $100k) on him on that particular day? So the people were going to rob any person that day and just had a getaway car waiting? You really think everything was just coincidence? People regulary employ wheelmen for random and basic muggings.

@3RENSHO

I am American so I just put a rough conversion of how much ￥10,000,000 is in $USD.

Why on earth is it necessary to describe him as a ‘company employee’ in the headline? What’s wrong with just ‘man’?

Maybe he's in on it and played the part of the victim and will get his cut later on

Why was he carrying this much cash? Seems fishy

Start checking the thousands of surveillance cameras in the vicinity. Could be true, but sounds a bit suspect.

Anyone carrying around a 100,000$ is begging to get mugged.

This was clearly a planned attack. No one has a waiting car and just happens to be attacking someone that has $100k on them. That means this guy regularly carries large amounts of cash on him and he has an easily exploitable pattern.

Why are you so naive?! Use banks, or hire bodyguards for such huge amounts.

thats a bit too much to carry around in big bags LUL

I wouldn't want to carry that much cash with me at any time. But if I had to, Japan is a pretty safe place to do it. The chances of a random robbery are pretty well zero, so if nobody knows I had the cash, I wouldn't be too worried.

Obviously, somebody knew he had the cash. Can't be too hard to narrow down suspects

Thunk about it like this.

Yout work at a shop that closes late.

The banks are closed, as a manager, you take it home for deposit the following morning.

Many people do this and it is common for this type of mugging to occur, usually inside job or an employee tells the wrong person.

He lost 10 million yen, are they sure it just wasn't the employee not getting his annual raise?

Oh, wait. That's just me at my job, that's right.

While not 10 million yen, it is not uncommon for folks to carry a lot of cash around in their wallets here and have you seen the armored car guys? Light vans with guys wearing sci-fi helmets and batons. Then there's the bank employees that travel from home to home delivering cash and taking care of transactions with just a black lock box on the back of their bikes. There is a level of trust here that is unparalleled anywhere on Earth. Thank goodness for Japan. Gives me hope.

It will be interesting to hear more details...

JJ Jetplane - This was clearly a planned attack. No one has a waiting car and just happens to be attacking someone that has $100k on them. That means this guy regularly carries large amounts of cash on him and he has an easily exploitable pattern.

It doesn’t mean anything. There is no information he regularly carried large amounts of cash at 9:30 on a Saturday morning.

"carrying around a 100,000$"

"someone that has $100k on them."

I very much doubt the 52-year-old company employee was carrying one hundred thousand American dollars.