Some neighborhood associations correct the money for the year-end charity campaign (歳末助け合い, saimatsu tasukeai) around this time of the season in Japan. They distribute an envelop to each house of the area and you can put whatever the amount of the money in the envelop.
Sometime later, the person who is in charge of correcting the envelop come to ask the envelop your donation in it.
The envelop said the minimum amount of the donation is 500 yen, and that's how much the most of people donate. Yet, I put 1,000 yen this time. When the person who is in charge of correcting the envelop see inside the envelop to write the receipt, she was surprised and said:
Sometime later, the person who is in charge of correcting the envelop come to ask the envelop your donation in it.
The envelop said the minimum amount of the donation is 500 yen, and that's how much the most of people donate. Yet, I put 1,000 yen this time. When the person who is in charge of correcting the envelop see inside the envelop to write the receipt, she was surprised and said:
