Homeless Japanese woman lives for a year in man's closet

Tokyo (AP/ajc) -- A homeless woman who sneaked into a man's house in southern Japan and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested after he became suspicious when food began disappearing.

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 said Friday from the town of Kasuya.

The resident installed security cameras that transmitted images to his mobile phone after food was 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."