Japanese police returned 3.7 billion yen--or $48.3 million--recovered in post-tsunami clean-up to their rightful owners with the help of honest volunteers and rescue crews. Police were able to track down the owners of 85% of the cash pulled from the rubble in the first four months following the devastating March earthquake because it was stored with bank books or other records with names and addresses. "We had to first determine if the owners were alive, then find were they had evacuated to," Miyagi Police Officer Koetsu Saiki told ABC News. Rescue workers hauled more than 5,700 safes from the debris, one of which contained the equivalent of $1 million. Saiki said fisherman prefer cash transactions, so it's not surprising that so much paper yen was found along the coast.
