Man broke into over 1,000 homes to 'relieve stress': It's a hobby of mine. I get so thrilled'

The 37-year-old was arrested on suspicion of trespassing on a property. (Representational image: Unsplash)

The Japanese police recently arrested a man who reportedly admitted to breaking into more than 1,000 homes in an unconventional way of relieving stress.

Police took the 37-year-old into custody on Monday on suspicion of trespassing on a property in Dazaifu in southern Japan, a police spokesman told AFP.

"Breaking into other people's homes is a hobby of mine, and I have done it more than 1,000 times," the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper quoted the unnamed man as saying.

"I get so thrilled that my palms sweat when wondering if someone will discover me or not, and it relieves some stress," he told police, according to the newspaper.

Another Japanese case doing rounds on the internet because of its bizarre nature is that of a dead teenager being prosecuted for killing herself in a manner that also resulted in the death of a woman.

The incident had occurred on August 31 when the teenager jumped from the 12th floor of a building and fell on a woman walking on the street, resulting in two deaths.

Police say the girl was old enough to realise that she could be at risk of hitting pedestrians walking below, and have asked for an indictment to be officially recorded. The teen had landed on a corporate professional, 32-year-old Chikako Chiba, who was walking with three friends. But critics have condemned the move to prosecute a dead teenager as pointless and a waste of resources, Japan Today reported.

A message on the Japan Today website stated, “Prosecuting a dead girl is peak government ridiculousness – bureaucrats so obsessed with following their rigid, outdated rules that they’ve completely lost touch with common sense and human decency.”