Japanese woman tackles burglar to save designer wallet

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TOKYO (AFP) - A drunken Japanese burglar became a cropper when he tried to steal a young woman's designer wallet, police and reports said.

Unemployed Hideaki Kinoshita, 41, was tackled by the woman and arrested after he tried to lift three bags after breaking in to her office in Hakata, southern Japan.

Kinoshita threatened to stab the 23-year-old woman with a knife, but she grabbed his arm and cornered him before a male customer came to her aid.

"I was scared, but I was desperate because he was trying to steal my bag with my precious Louis Vuitton wallet inside," she told police, according to the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.

She escaped with minor injuries. The report said Kinoshita was drunk at the time and did not really have a knife.