50 Dropped WALLETS in JAPAN (Tokyo Social Experiment)

[Music] this is Jason reef Lake now I wanted to know what would happen if I dropped my wallet 50 times in the most honest country in the world now in 2015 the University of East Anglia conducted an honesty experiment in other countries in the experiment they found that Japan was the most honest so I went to Japan I walked through the streets of Tokyo and I dropped my wallet 50 times to see how many people would return it you know inside this wallet I had a driver's license a business debit card a train ticket and five thousand yen I wanted anyone that picked this wallet up to know that this was a real wad I then hit a GoPro on my backpack so they wouldn't know that they're being filmed and honestly pretty crazy what happens here we go [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] Oh God thank you [Music] [Music] now let's head over where it's a little more crowded [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh Hey you like that in thank you so much [Music] what [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] thank you so I'm here it's Shibuya crossing and as you see there's a lot of people crossing I'm gonna drop some wallets here's who happens [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hey there it is let me know in the comments which number your favorite was mine is number 22 with the homeless man not expecting that so this is actually one of my first vlog type videos I don't know what I'm doing but you should subscribe so we have a lot of stuff coming up hey everyone how are you my name is go ski we need to pound little Asian I'm being a youtuber for about five years no subscriber yet yeah I'm pumped [Music] transition

Channel: Jason Ray Flake

Views: 5,518,873

Rating: 4.9291606 out of 5

Keywords: wallet, wallet drop, honesty test, social experiment, honesty, social, lost wallet, most honest country, japan, japan lost wallet, japanese, japan honesty

Id: Qxo-_6S1AoE

Length: 10min 18sec (618 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 21 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/myyama]

When I was moving to Japan I Left my wallet (which had hundreds of dollars for the move in it) on a shelf in a large furniture store... all of a sudden a Japanese couple came running up to me with it. Also left my phone in a clothing store in harajuku and it was turned in to the store clerk who held onto it for maybe an hour before I went back looking for it. Super nice people.

[u/Dave-1066]

I’ve relayed this event elsewhere before but I never get bored of it:

One of my friends has lived in Japan for over 25 years. When he first moved to Tokyo his bike was stolen one day and he reported it to the local police station. For the next few weeks they phoned him every few days to say they were still looking for it (bikes are code-stamped there by law, as far as I understand). After a few months the calls become more scarce and he actually told them there was no need to keep calling and that he’d accepted it was never going to come back.

Well they found it.

They then asked him to come to the station, where he was met by a couple of officers who apologised for the theft.

As someone pointed out to me, the fact that he was a westerner no doubt played a part- a sense of national pride and embarrassment. But seriously, in what country other than Japan would you ever expect cops in a gigantic capital city to keep checking random bikes until they found yours?

However they managed it, the Japanese have got social order right. The last time we in the West had that level of communal decency was back in the 1950s.