My Wallet Was Stolen in Japan: Theft and Scams in Japan

Here is a video about how my wallet was stolen in Japan due to my low level of caution, and the current state of theft and fraud in Japan. I hope that this will help tourists coming to Japan be more careful in protecting their belongings!
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[@s.soffgen4296]

Thank you for sharing your experiences. I live in Germany and my Japanese friends always take good care of their valuables when they are traveling in Germany! The crime rate in Germany is much higher than in Japan. A lot of pickpockets and fraudsters in German cities, especially in the big cities and at festivals. So, please take good care of your valuables when you visit Germany! 😢I'm really very sorry if something is stolen from someone!

[@Moonchild0517]

Well Germany is also much bigger than Japan and a lot more people live here. I mean the crime rate is higher than in JP but still low compared to other countries. Tourist places are always targets of criminals in every country.

[@Berzelmayr]

@@Moonchild0517 There's more people in Japan.

[@tgrey5647]

Hi Yuu, I watched all the way to the end. I'm so sorry that your wallet was stolen, it's a shame that it happened to someone as pure and kind as you. But I'm glad you're not as depressed anymore. ❤❤❤

[@rjshipp]

I watched all the way to the end 🙂 Although you were presenting as someone in Japan, the advice you gave was applicable to all of us worldwide, and I don't think it was actually dark (although the experience was for you), but cautionary. I haven't had my wallet stolen for a few decades now, (I live in the city so am pretty vigilant.) but I remember all the emotions - anger, sadness, etc. that resulted as I had to reassemble my life (credit cards, driver's license, IDs, etc.). Thank you for sharing your experience, and I hope you can recuperate easily and quickly.

[@CarmenHatcher-pp7nu]

Thank you so much for sharing and reminding us to take care. Very thoughtful and considerate of you. Sorry you experienced this.

[@mharkins7314]

So. sorry to hear about your loss! It proves that "Bad things happen to Good People!"

[@lizzybe2531]

I watch all of your videos till the end. I like your content and your sincerity.

[@abrahamalatorre]

Hey Yuu. I'm currently in Japan and from the USA. I would definitely be careful whichever state you are going. Coming from the US and often hearing the crime rate, I always stay vigilant and careful in Japan as nowhere is truly 100% safe. Enjoy your trip in the US and always stay aware of your surroundings!

[@RuiLeTubo]

I watched until the end😊 Greetings from Portugal 🇵🇹🇪🇺

[@gypsywilkerson197]

Sorry to hear about your unfortunate experience. Sadly, no place is 💯 safe crimes like theft and scams Thank you for sharing. ✌️

[@edwinatakasaki2258]

Very sorry to hear about your experience. Because of the fear of theft, most people don't keep their cash all in one place (one wallet) - it's prudent, especially for tourists, to space out your daily cash / credit cards in different areas of your travel kit (your purse / back pack / travel pack) in the event one should be assaulted/robbed, to minimize loss. You don't expect it to happen, but you don't expect it to NOT happen as well - we say, be akamai (smart) on how you go about your day. On a lighter note, love the audio on this microphone - it's very clear and crisp. Thank you for sharing! EDIT: I hope you have someone you trust to watch your two cats while you travel to the states in the summer. Safe travels!

[@JustPeasant]

Yes. Places where pickpocketing occur the most are main streets that tourists visit the most. This is why you should get a shirt (and jacket for the cold days) that has a big pocket on it's inside.

[@matthewjay660]

Yuu-kun, I ALWAYS watch your videos until the end. 🙋🏻‍♂️🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵

[@sheilarussell6354]

YUU I am sincerely sorry to hear this but please take great care once you come to the USA. For someone is always looking for someone who look like they are confused or easy to take advantage of. Thank you for informing us to take great care of our surroundings at all times.

[@debbishobash1527]

I watched till the end. Thank you for the information. Sorry you had your wallet stolen.

[@patricia_seraphine]

I did watch your video to the end. Whether you commented or not doesn't matter, what matters most is that you lost something that belongs to you, and you needed to be extra careful. Always have your belongings clutched and by your side. If you dont feel safe in Japan due to the increase in theft and scams of personal property, I suggest you move to another country or another city to feel safer.

[@forevertya2149]

I have watched this video until the end. I am so sorry you had to go through having your wallet stolen. It has happened to me here in the USA at least once where I live.

[@paulmartin1193]

Hi Yuu, I'm sorry to hear that you had your wallet stolen. but was interested enough to watch your video to the end. When I first moved to LA, I was somewhat depressed to learn how much theft and fraud there is in this area. After living here awhile, I realized that this reality is a reflection of the large population around me, When I lived in the Denver, CO area I ddin't realize that the occurrance of car theft may have been even more frequent, factoring in the size of the population there.. Thanks for posting your video!

[@danaeads919]

I'm so sorry for your loss, Yuu. Many years ago, someone entered my home because I had left a window unlocked and stole my laptop computer, two diamond rings and a DVD player. There was so much more that could have been taken, so it was odd that only those few items were gone. The DVD player was worth less than $50. The laptop computer was 7 years old and had a removable battery - which had been removed and stored separately so they wouldn't have gotten much money for it. I felt very vulnerable for a long time because my safety had been violated. In the United States, expensive, luxury cars are taken to the ports, loaded into containers and shipped to the Middle East and sold. Older Hondas are very popular with thieves in general. I think they may be easy to break into. I remember watching a news story many years ago about a woman who lived in San Diego, California and had her expensive SUV truck stolen from her driveway. Some time after the theft, she was watching news coverage of a large drug bust in Mexico and saw the Federales (Mexican National Police) driving her truck! The US and Mexican governments wouldn't do anything to help her get her truck back. San Diego is on the border between the US and Mexico and it is not unusual for criminals to freely cross the border to avoid arrest.

[@KotaBlifford]

I watched your video to the end! It was very informing, great video 😃👍

[@xiaorishu]

Sorry to hear about your experience :(

[@sarahlbjones]

Hi Yuu-san, I'm so sorry you had this experience. Fortunately (or maybe not), the only thefts I've been a victim of is someone breaking into my home and taking a lot of my electronics, all my jewellery, and my gaming things. I've been victim to many other criminal activities in Egypt too (it's a long story that leaves me at least 4.5 years stuck there), so yes, being vigilant is very, very important 🙏🏻 I watched the video to the end, and it surprised me how much happens regarding car and bicycle theft! I'll be extra careful when I visit Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka in the summer 🙏🏻

[@Joantqalcantara]

Watching half of your video, just brings me to say at least you are safe and left without injury. It can happen to anyone , we just like you mentioned we must stay vigilant of our surroundings.

[@scarletwest8754]

I'm so sorry, Yuu. That would make me so angry. Theft is very common in my town even though it's probably one of the smallest towns in the USA. I keep my purse and my phone strapped to my jeans while I'm working in the stores. I'm sorry, I hope they find the person that stole it.

[@elisegeum1514]

Unfortunately, happens anywhere. The most precious is your health. Thank you for sharing

[@CaimAstraea]

Let's not try to normalize this kind of behaviours. Not all places are sh1tholes like New York / London etc.

[@nadinem4959]

So sorry Yuu 😢

[@PhiloLamb]

I'm sorry that your wallet was stolen. I almost had my camera stolen while sightseeing in Rome. But thanks to a friend who actually spotted the pickpocket and confronted her after her first attempt failed, I did not lose anything. I'm aware that things like that happen. But I was still surprised and a bit sad afterwards. When you come to visit the U.S , do be careful. But I hope you will experience more the beauty, friendliness, and safety of our country. ❤

[@AlwinAlwinanthonyraj-su8ev]

hi yuu i watched till the end the wallet mught be gone but the love for you wil never be gone stay positive as always peace out

[@flamart9703]

To the end! 😘 The safest place for the wallet is the front pocket of tight pants, especially in the summer, when there are no clothes with internal secure pockets with zippers, but it is not very comfortable though.

[@marilynfoster5279]

Yes., what is wonderful about being able to view KZbin and platforms that are similar,We learn that across the world everyone is dealing with similar problems.This really helps dispel a lot of myths one might have about different people, and places that one may not be familiar with .Sometimes this amounts to fear,because it's not familiar or it's just different.But for me I find it exciting, to view how other people live in this big wonderful complex world.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊

[@私は日本人ですミ裏春馬]

Thank you for sharing your experiences and bad experiences about theft. Every country has good and bad people. Although the crime rate is not much, you still have to be careful with your personal assets. Being stolen is considered a bad experience to learn from. I believe that the Japanese police will find your wallet back, so you can rest assured.

[@JDarksyteWD]

I did watch to the end, and I'm sorry that happened to you. The unfortunate reality is that yes, it could also happen here in the US--but it also might not happen, especially with the level of vigilance you already have. I do hope you're able to enjoy your time here, and that you are able to take home many pleasant memories.

[@kyotoben610]

Since you are going to America, be extra careful as a high rate of crime is occurring in major cities.

[@kaizenjames4105]

裕ちゃん、財布は日本人じゃなくて外国人に盗まれたんだと思うよ。Yuu, I think your wallet was stolen by foreigners, not by Japanese.

[@dbl0fluff]

Please be very vigilant when coming to the U.S. thank you for posting this as many tourists would not realize a theft had occurred until too late.

[@Tom-zy5ci]

Même au Japon !! c'est certainement des étrangers au Japon mais pas des Japonais!!!!!😯😢

[@LM-vt1hx]

Hello 👋 Yuu Theft is a very traumatic experience. Please take care.

[@CaimAstraea]

In the past they didn't have the infrastructure needed to do the crime but as more and more immigrants arive they can set up the whole infrastructure needed for the operation , pawn shops , fence , movers etc that can get rid of the stolen items and produce the money.

[@shoiku4734]

Well, it means Japan is not even as safe as Thailand & Taiwan! In Bangkok & Taiwan, people just leave their phones & bags on the table to buy food.

[@AhidoMikaro]

This is the norm in Japan too. The reality is bad people exist everywhere, even in the most peaceful societies.

[@Yunashelia]

I thought something like that might happen now in japan. Inflation/poverty increases the criminal rate.

[@ordinaryobserver897]

Thanks for your honesty otherwise I would still be thinking that Japan has no such crimes.

[@Maru-ms8zg]

Hola Yuu. Las cárceles están llenas en todos los países y por cometer todo tipo de delitos. La violencia sobre personas, animales y cosas no tiene fronteras y por eso el mundo está como está. También hay buena gente pero no suelen ser noticia. Saludos desde España, Yuu, para tí y todos los compañeros de canal.

[@francisgagneart]

It sucks man! I am wondering what is the sentence in Japan for theft?

[@selmakurth]

Muito obrigada pelo vídeo, sou seguidora nova aqui do Brasil, vou viajar ao Japao no fim de ano, e ficarei mais cautelosa.Domo Arigatou.

[@JanMyler]

最後まで動画を見ましたよ。お財布が盗まれちゃってのは本当に残念です。

[@ShinmegamiPersona]

Sorry about what happened omg

[@MsNIKITA]

From my experience in Japan and those of my friends, we believe both bicycles and umbrellas are the most common items to be stolen. But wallets, mobile phones, glasses/spectacles and bags are usually handed into the koban, unfortuinately there are always people out there who are less honest and instead of doing the right thing, they'll steal the cash from the wallet before handing it in. I learnt not to carry a wallet, instead carry enough cash for what I'm thinking of doing for the day. Now in 2024, with the huge numbers of tourists, one can't help but wonder how many of tthose people would hand something they find on the street to the local police box? 🤔

[@amelindalindberg2706]

Reached the ending 😊

[@jorgesaravia1785]

I forgot my wallet close to Meoto-Iwa (Ise Prefecture) and I realized when I was on the bus. I came back to the bus stop and the wallet was there, intact.

[@sophieturi9962]

かなり珍しいですね。私日本に住んでた時自転車だけが盗まれました。

[@אליןפלסינטה-ק2ט]

最後まで動画を見たよ！❤

[@JorDonJordy_.]

I'm glad you are Safe and doing fine🙏🏽🫂 regardless. Hope you were able to at least retrieve any and or all items that you had in the Wallet. Hope whatever was inside is retrievable. Stay safe and sending lots of love and good vibes your way.

[@RovinTan]

All those gaijin coming to Japan and stealing stuff

[@chcc3934]

finished... one questio... what can scammers do if they get your instagram password ? what is the purpose?

[@JanMyler]

Often times, when IG accounts with a lot of followers are taken over, they are used to promote something malicious, usually another scam product. Or the account is sold on the dark market and used for what I've described before by someone else later.

[@Rody_le_Cid]

最後まで見ました。正直に言って、統計的に見て、それを取ったのが日本人である確率はどれくらいでしょうか？ そして、それが日本人以外の人だった確率はどれくらいでしょうか？ 気を付けないと

[@JanMyler]

There are many people in Japan who are not doing well financially so it's happening more often. Statistically speaking, vast majority of crime in Japan is committed by Japanese nationals.

[@polodhtip6061]

Even for my bicycle i use a motorbike lock😂

[@WinterSistaCh]

残念でしたね 😢

[@polodhtip6061]

Paris ni sodateta kara, itsumo ki wo tsukeru😂 kotoshi no aki nihon ni kuru, aeru kamoshirenai

[@MM-Goodvibes]

❤❤❤

[@romilamila1271]

The first one

[@heinmolenaar6750]

I thought japan is a very safe country.

[@thandarwin5348]

ငါတို့ဆီမှာ ဂျပန်အကြောင်း ကြားဖူးထားတာနဲ့ မင်းပြောပြတာ ကွာဟနေလို့ အံ့သြရတယ်၊ ဂျပန်မှာ ခိုးမှု အခြေအနေကို ပြောပြလို့ ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်၊ ငါတို့နိုင်ငံကတော့ အဲ့ဒါမျိုး ရိုးနေပြီ၊ ဘတ်စ်ကား ခရီးသည်တွေ ဖုန်း ပိုက်ဆံအိတ် ခါးပိုက်နှိုက်ခံကြရတယ်၊ ရပ်ထားတဲ့ကားတွေရဲ့ နောက်ကြည့်မှန်တွေ နေ့ရော ညပါ မိနစ်ပိုင်းအတွင်း အခိုးခံရတတ်တယ်၊ ထူးဆန်းတာက အဲ့ ပျောက်သွားတဲ့ ကားနောက်ကြည့်မှန်ကို သိပ်မကြာမီ သင့်ပစ္စည်း သင် ပြန်ဝယ်လို့ရမဲ့ လမ်းကြောင်းရှိတယ်😂၊ ငါက ဘာသာရေး လေ့လာ လေ့ကျင့်သူ၊ ဘာသာရေးအမြင်နဲ့ ပြောရရင် အားလုံးက ကိုယ်လုပ်ထားလို့ ကိုယ်ပြန်ခံရတာ၊ ငါတို့ မင်းတို့ ပစ္စည်းဥစ္စာ ဆုံးရှံးရတာက အရင် ငါတို့လည်း သူတစ်ပါး ဥစ္စာ ဆုံးရှုံးအောင် လုပ်ဖူးခဲ့ကြလို့ပါ၊ အဲ့ဒါ ကာမ ခေါ် ကံတွေပါ၊ မဖြစ်အောင် သတိတော့ ထားရတာပေါ့၊ ဒါပေမဲ့ ကံပါရင် တနည်းနည်းနဲ့ ဆုံးရှုံးရတာပါပဲ၊ လောကမှာ ရန်သူမျိုးငါးပါး ရှိတယ်၊ ရေ၊ မီး၊ မင်း၊ ခိုးသူ၊ မချစ် မနှစ်သက်သောသူ တဲ့၊ Wikipedia ကို ရှာကြည့်ပါ၊ ဘာသာရေး လေ့လာ လေ့ကျင့် ယုံကြည်သူ မဟုတ်သေးရင်တော့ လောလောဆယ် နားလည် လက်ခံမှာ မဟုတ်သေးပါ၊ အရေးကြီးတာက အဖြစ်အပျက်တွေရင်ဆိုင်ရတဲ့အခါ (ဒေါသ လောဘ မောဟ) မဖြစ်အောင် ပူပင် သောက မဖြစ်အောင် စိတ်ကို တည်ငြိမ်အောင် သဘောထားမှန်မှန် ထားနိုင်အောင် လေ့ကျင့်ထားရင် ကောင်းပါတယ်၊ အဆင်ပြေပါစေ။

[@steve_the_first]

Hey, Yuu! I watched your video until the very end. I am sorry this has happened to you, it’s bad enough if your wallet is gone, but losing a substantial amount of money can be devastating. Thank you for making this video, and talking about these things! 🤍

[@Sumoclau]

Hope it stays a single case. So please dont be depressed. Its done anyway, you cant change anything about it now but learn for the future. Especially for US I recommend never- to show of any of your values/ cameras and always have your bags onbody... 🫂👍