Japan man discovers woman living in his closet

[WhiteTara]

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSCOO06330120080530
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man who was mystified when food kept disappearing from his kitchen, set up a hidden camera and found an unknown woman living secretly in his closet, Japanese media said Friday.

The 57-year-old unemployed man of Fukuoka in southern Japan called police Wednesday when the camera sent pictures to his mobile phone of an intruder in his home while he was out on Wednesday, the Asahi newspaper said on its Website.

Officers rushed to the house and found a 58-year-old unemployed woman hiding in an unused closet, where she had secreted a mattress and plastic drink bottles, the Asahi said. Police suspect she may have been there for several months, the paper said.

"I didn't have anywhere to live," the Nikkan Sports tabloid quoted the woman as telling police.

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Very resourceful!?

[hedgehog]

1. I haven't gone into the bedrooms of my kids who are away at school.

Now I really won't go into the bedroms of my kids who are away at achool!

[wtmusic]

7. Appreciate it.

But next time you're at the market could you pick up some beer?

[dkf]

2. Just how big is this closet anyway? Weird.

[babylonsister]

3. Really, especially in Japan where space is at a premium. nt

[smoogatz]

4. This is how Howard Dean must think of Hillary about now...

Who do you call? The Orkin man?

[cephalexin]

5. This story doesn't pass the smell test. An unemployed Japanese man?? with a closet big enough

for a person to get in? I ain't buyin' it.
;-)

[aquart]

10. He's not in Tokyo.

Living is way more irregular out in the Japanese boonies.

[cephalexin]

13. I was trying to make a joke, but I didn't do it very well. I've been to Japan

dozens of times...having only missed Shikoku
campai

:D

[Barack_America]

6. I thought this was going to be about a transgendered man. nt

[mike_c]

8. I hate it when that happens....

eom

[cephalexin]

9. Me too, I lived in the closet for years before being discovered!

:D

[WhiteTara]

12. welcome to DU

and LOL
:hi:

[Kindigger]

11. When she came out she said

Fukuoka!

[The Inquisitive]

14. Has anyone seen the movie 'the grudge'?

The only thing is missing is that the woman isn't an evil undead spirit on a killing rampage... everything else is perfect.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. Some of those older houses in Japan are pretty big

and they can have large sliding door closets.

True story: When I was a student over there in the 1970s, my landlady decided to rebuild her house. (She managed the apartments; her husband was "tanshin funin," transferred to another city by himself, although he came back occasionally.)

She and her 24-year-old daughter moved into one of the vacant apartments, all of which had identical floorplans, a 6-mat (approximately 9' x 12') main room, a little room with a toilet and a sink, a kitchen, and a sliding door closet that was the same size as the kitchen.

I went to pay my rent in person during this time, and the husband happened to be visiting.

I marveled at the way they were all living together in one room.

No problem, they assured me. The daughter slept in the closet.

[JohnyCanuck]

16. Reminds me of that Seinfeld episode

in which Kramer stuffed some visiting Japanese tourists into a chest of drawers for the night.