$330,000 found in Japan vacant house demolition

Construction workers dismantling a vacant house in rural Japan discovered $330,000 cash stuffed in a tin box underneath the living room floor, press reports said Wednesday.

The house, in a farming town on the northern island of Hokkaido, had been empty since its elderly male owner died two years ago, the reports said.

The cash — about 2,600 notes each worth 10,000 yen ($127) bundled together or put in envelopes — will be handed over to the dead man’s relatives on the main Japanese island of Honshu, the reports said.

Photo illustration. Construction workers dismantling a vacant house in rural Japan discovered $330,000 cash stuffed in a tin box underneath the living room floor, press reports said Wednesday

“Because the cash was discovered at an individual’s house, it is clear whose money it is,” a spokesman for the local police station said by telephone. “So we don’t treat it as a lost-and-found case.”