TOKYO: Japanese police arrested a woman near Tokyo for allegedly sewing shut the lips of her housemate, officials said Thursday (Jul 9).The 42-year-old female victim escaped the house in the city of Koga, rushed to a nearby shop and held up a piece of paper that read "please help me", Makoto Hiyama, a senior local police official, told AFP.Police in the eastern prefecture of Ibaraki - where Koga is located - later arrested 49-year-old Masae Sakurai "on suspicion of assault," according to a prefectural police spokesman.Sakurai lived with the victim at the time of the Jun 29 alleged incident when she sewed her housemate's "lips with a needle and thread", the spokesman said, adding that she was arrested on Monday.Police are investigating the incident, including unconfirmed information that th