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A man wielding a knife stole ¥2.3 million in cash from a woman in her 30s in the parking lot of her apartment building in Nakai, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 1 p.m. Kyodo News reported that the woman was not injured.
Police said the woman, who is self-employed, told them she was about to get into her car when the man came up behind her and threatened her with a knife. He stole an envelope containing the cash.
Police said the suspect is described as being 175 centimeters tall and was wearing black clothing from head to toe and a black face mask.
Police said they are questioning the woman about who might have known she had that much cash on her at the time.
© Japan Today
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AdamP75
Sounds like she potentially could have been in on this!
Lindsay
Self employed and carrying a big wad of cash that would only happen randomly. Insurance job for sure!
Numan
Cameras at the apartment should make it easy to find the person. Also, it seems suspicious. She might be in on it, or it is someone that knows her.
purple_depressed_bacon
This is suspicious on so many levels. Who walks about with that kind of cash on hand nowadays?
commanteer
Lots of blaming the victim here. I assume people posting comments have never lived in Japan, as carrying this amount of money is nothing unusual. It's not an everyday thing, but larger payments are often still paid in cash.
James
I do regularly, many things need to be paid for here in Japan in cash still. I paid a contractor 3.5million yen in cash couple days ago I will pay another contractor 8.6 mill in a few more days all in cash.
kaimycahl
The article said the women was self employed. Doing what WE DO NOT KNOW, perhaps she was going to put the money in the bank. The time of day was not mentioned so again I can't blame her for carrying such large amounts of cash. What I do think is the perp who did this has to be someone who knows her and knew she had the money, this just couldn't have been a random act, this robbery was deliberate by someone knowing her or worked for her.
James
James
Or they just saw her walk out of the bank or her place of work putting a heavy looking envelope in her bag.
Sanjinosebleed
Going to a host club?
Mark
An insider job for sure.
CrashTestDummy
The big question is, how did the assailant know she had 2.3 million yen on her?
Michael Machida
Seemingly an inside job. I am careful with just ¥1000 after I leave the bank looking behind me, side of me, under me, over me, looking to make sure my funds are not going to be stolen.
Insurance gig for sure. She is not a stupid self employed person. She knew what she was doing.
Sheikh Yerboaby
It very much IS unusual......2.3 million in cash? No one regularly carries that amount around