Japanese city devastated by tsunami receives gift of gold worth $250,000 A Japanese port city that was hit by the 2011 tsunami last week received anonymous parcels containing gold worth more than $250,000, the AFP reported. The mystery gift is being called a "goodwill gold rush" ahead of the second anniversary of the disaster. The president of the company that runs the port in the northeastern city of Ishinomaki received a parcel containing two slabs of gold each weighing 1 kilogram, or about 2 pounds, according to AFP. "Since it was labeled as 'miscellaneous goods,' I casually opened the box," Kunio Sunow, president of the Ishinomaki Fish Market, told AFP. I was stunned because what's in there was 24k gold in two plates. One was wrapped in brown paper and the other in a page taken from a magazine -- both were sitting in bubble sheets," he said.