A woman has been arrested in Japan for sneaking into a man's house and living in his closet without him knowing.
Police found 58-year-old Tatsuko Horikawa living in a small storage space in the house in the southern city of Fukuoka.
The house belonged to a 57-year-old man, who had become suspicious after food disappeared from his fridge.
So he installed a surveillance system, which filmed the woman as she walked around in his absence.
On Wednesday afternoon police searched the house and found the woman in her cubby G8 environment ministers call for long-term CO2 cuts ...
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She had brought a mattress into the tiny space in the closet, police said.
"She told police that she had nowhere to live," the French news agency AFP quoted a local police spokesman as saying.
"She seems to have lived there for about a year, but not all the time."
(BBC)
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