A shrine staff walks under rain at the Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine in Dazaifu city of Fukuoka on August 16, 2021. FILE PHOTO/Agence France-Presse

TOKYO — Japanese police said Wednesday that they 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.

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“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.

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“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.

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