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A vending machine repairman has been arrested for stealing cash from the machine that sells tickets for the Yushukan, the war museum at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine.
The man came to the museum on June 9th to perform maintenance on the machines. He tried to steal 39,000 yen, but his crime was discovered and he has now been charged with theft.
The man allegedly used his professional knowledge to reset the machines so that the number of tickets sold matched with the amount of money that remained inside after the theft. It was a clever scheme, but he was caught because he got too greedy. The Yasukuni Shrine recently began to notice that museum ticket sales seemed a lot lower than usual, and they soon realized that the vending machine repairman was conducting a suspiciously high number of maintenance checks on the ticket machines.
When questioned by police, the main admitted that he’d been stealing money from vending machines over the course of several years. The stolen cash probably added up to the equivalent of thousands of dollars.
The man’s crimes do not appear to have been politically motivated.
Among the Japanese media, Sankei Sports deserves special recognition for its eye-catching headline: “34-year-old man steals money from spirits of the war dead” [３４歳男「英霊」から金盗む].
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