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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    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.”