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TOKYO - A homeless woman who sneaked into a man's house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing.

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Police found the 58-year-old woman Thursday hiding in the top compartment of the man's closet and arrested her for trespassing, police spokesman Hiroki Itakura from southern Kasuya town said Friday.

The resident of the home installed security cameras that transmitted images to his mobile phone after becoming puzzled by food disappearing from his kitchen over the past several months.

One of the cameras captured someone moving inside his home Thursday after he had left, and he called police believing it was a burglar. However, when they arrived they found the door locked and all windows closed.

"We searched the house ... checking everywhere someone could possibly hide," Itakura said. "When we slid open the shelf closet, there she was, nervously curled up on her side."

The woman told police she had no place to live and first sneaked into the man's house about a year ago when he left it unlocked.

She had moved a mattress into the small closet space and even took showers, Itakura said, calling the woman "neat and clean

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080530/ap_on_...an_closet_woman

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And to think for years I've wanted a woman to live in my closet, or in a cage under my bed. All I have to do is move to Japan and my dream can become reality.

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I feel sorry for the woman. Japan is a very... reserved society, believe it or not. Indeed, the homeless find ways to make their situation better, in a uniquely Japanese way. Click this sentence for more information.

A great deal of homeless in this country are folks with substance abuse problems and mental illnesses. The Japanese homeless, for the most part, reflect the homeless in North America during the era of the great depression.

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Wow.....That was clever.....

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