South China Morning Post
AsiaPac · 1 hrs ago
Woman arrested in Japan for sewing roommate’s lips together
A 49-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly sewing together the lips of a woman she was living with, according to local police.
Masae Sakurai, a part-time worker living in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, was arrested on Monday on suspicion of injuring the 42-year-old woman by sewing her lips together with a needle and thread at Sakurai’s house on June 29.
The 42-year-old, who had been living with Sakurai since around April 2025, told the police that she “had been too scared to...
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