Chiaki Kato has slept outdoors about three times a month for the last decade, regardless of the season or weather.
Sometimes she's alone in a convenience store parking lot or with friends in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo.
Taking extra care to keep warm in winter and to ward off mosquitoes in summer, she leaves the comforts of her Tokyo home to lie on the ground.
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