Japanese Man Finds Woman Living In His Closet

A Japanese man puzzled by food mysteriously disappearing from his refrigerator got a shock when he found out that a woman had been living in his home for months.

The 57-year-old man living alone -- or so he thought -- in western Japan installed a security camera fed up with the disappearing food and called police when he saw the images of someone walking around his home while he was out.

"We searched the house in the man's presence. We found the woman in the closet," said a local police spokesman.

The woman, a 58-year-old named Tatsuko Horikawa, was found in a flat storage space only just big enough for a person to squeeze into lying down.

She had sneaked a mattress and several plastic bottles into the cubby hole, police said.

"She told police that she had nowhere to live. She seems to have lived there for about a year, but not all the time," said the spokesman.

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