Tokyo Reuters A Japanese woman karate ace foiled a burglary at her home when she saw the male intruder's shadow on a paper window screen and disabled him with a flurry of kicks.
According to the top-selling daily yomiuri shimbun, police formally commended Sayuri Nagano, 23, for helping arrest the burglar, who also turned out to be a martial arts exponent.
His skills failed him on the night he tried to break into the Nagano family house in Owase, western Japan
Yomiuri said Nagano, a second dan (grade) black belt in karate, awoke to see a man's shadow on the paper screen over her bedroom window.
She aimed a series of kicks through the screen and the burglar, a 31-year-old unemployed man, doubled up in pain before limping away.
Nagano and her father caught up with him inthe streetand handed him over to police.
The man was a practitioner of a similar martial art, Shorinji kung fu, but only firt dan
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