A homeless woman who sneaked into a man's house and lived  undetected in his closet for a year has been arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing.

Police spokesman Hiroki Itakura from southern Kasuya town said Friday that police found the 58-year-old woman Thursday hiding in the top compartment of the man's closet and arrested her for trespassing.

The resident of the home installed security cameras that transmitted
images to his mobile phone after becoming puzzled by food disappearing from his kitchen.

One of the cameras captured someone moving inside his home Thursday after he had left, and he called police.

The woman told police she had no place to live and first sneaked into the man's house about a year ago when he left it unlocked.