Kazuo Hoshino, the 57-year-old man who we wrote about here when he was known only as Crapman, finally has been arrested for cooking organic waste and his own excrement in his backyard.

According or a report in The Daily Yomiuri (not available on line at this writing), was arrested after he ignored a June 12 deadline set by the Nakano, Tokyo local government to stop his disgusting practice.

Hoshino admitted that he had ignored the local government’s order, but insisted that the garbage did not smell, and that he had not caused any trouble to his neighbors, the police said.

A TV report I saw this morning said that Hoshino’s family has told neighbors they are planning to sell the property and so Hoshino will not be returning to the neighborhood. No doubt the people near Hoshino’s home literally breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

For more on another Japanese neighbor from hell, see Japundit’s reports on Miyoko Kawahara here, here, and here.