日本：陌生女子驚現男子家中衣櫃

A Japanese man puzzled by food mysteriously disappearing from his refrigerator got a shock when he found out a woman had been living in his home for months without permission, police said Friday.

The 57-year-old man living alone in the western city of Fukuoka installed a security camera to find out the truth.

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

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

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

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

The women had been arrested.

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

It is unclear how she managed to enter the home undetected. Police suspect she might have been "closet-hopping", moving from house to house.

據日本當地警方上週五介紹，一名男子吃驚地發現一個陌生女子在他家偷偷住了好幾個月。

這名獨自居住在日本西部福岡市的57歲男子近幾個月來發現家裏冰箱裏的食物總是離奇失蹤，爲了查明真相，他在家裏安裝了攝像頭。

其中一個攝像頭拍到上週四他出門後家中有人走動，他立刻報警並以爲是小偷入室盜竊。但當警察到達他家中時，發現門窗都鎖得好好的。

當地警方的一名發言人稱：“我們當着這名男子的面對他家進行了搜查，結果在他的一個衣櫃裏發現了一個女人。”

這個名叫崛川壽子的58歲女人藏在一個只夠一人擠進去躺着的扁平儲物櫃中。

據警方介紹，她還搬了個牀墊到櫃子中去，甚至還洗過澡，因爲她看起來“乾淨整潔”。

目前這名女子已被捕。

據警方發言人介紹：“這名女子稱她無家可歸，她可能在櫃子裏住了約一年之久，但不是一直都住在那。”

目前警方還未查明她是如何潛入這名男子的家中的。警方懷疑她可能是個“櫃子竄”，從這家竄到那家。