JAPAN GOVERNMENT OFFICE ROBBED OF COMPUTERSMainichi Interactive - Top News: "Ibaraki government office robbed of computers, cash

HITACHI, Ibaraki -- Fifteen personal computers and nearly 700,000 yen in cash has been stolen from a local government office here, police said Monday.
Drafts of in-house documents are recorded on the computers' hard disks, but they do not contain any personal information, city officials said.
At around 7 a.m., a security guard posted to the building of the Hitachi Municipal Government's Public Enterprise Bureau in the Sukegawacho district found one of its windows broken, and alerted local police.
Police officers found that 15 laptop personal computers had been stolen from two sections of the bureau. Moreover, a fireproof safe had been pried open and about 690,000 yen collected as tap water and sewage charges were stolen.
The Public Enterprise Bureau is located about 100 meters away from the municipal government headquarters. (Compiled from wire reports, Japan, May 24, 2004)"