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, said.

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    The injured woman told police “the suspect became angry over a trouble and my lips were sewed”, public broadcaster NHK reported.

    Yeah I’m gonna need a little bit more clarification than that.

    Do you not stop this person? Was the victim sedated?

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      Yeah I’m confused too. It’s not exactly an immediate process. How does any of that not result in getting an elbow to your eye socket?

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        It’s difficult to explain to a gaijin (“foreigner”), but that would go against the deeply-held Japanese concept of kirikoru-ru, which translates roughly to “the idea of not elbowing someone in the eye after they’ve sewn your mouth shut.”