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A question mark over a bag and umbrella.
Also known as: Lost property Japan, Lost and found Japan
Marks a Japanese lost property office, a facility with an unusually formal role in Japan.
Marks an office holding property found and handed in.
Contexts: Public information
Sits on a statutory system rather than a courtesy: the Lost Goods Act requires found property to be handed to the police or to the operator within a set period and gives the finder a claim on a reward and, after a period, on the object itself. The mark is the visible end of a legal process.
Contexts: Public information
A square carrying a handbag and a furled umbrella side by side beneath a large question mark.