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A Japanese couple have been arrested after allegedly imprisoning their daughter for more than 15 years before she froze to death aged 33 this month, local media reported yesterday. Osaka residents Yasutaka Kakimoto, 55, and his wife Yukari, 53, admitted to locking their daughter Airi in a small room from the age of around 16 or 17, Kyodo News said. An autopsy showed Airi had frozen to death and was extremely malnourished, weighing about 19 kilogrammes.