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.
Woman arrested in Japan for sewing shut housemate's lips
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0709/1582507-japan-arrest-housemate/
25 Comments
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 94 pts · 39d
Yeah I’m gonna need a little bit more clarification than that.
Do you not stop this person? Was the victim sedated?
LouNeko@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 39d
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?
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 39d
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."
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 39d
Translation: Kiriko rules.
Yes, yes she does. Please don't sew my lips.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 39d
This has how to draw an owl vibes. You'd need full on anesthesia for this
unknown@piefed.social · 10 pts · 39d
Sedation maybe to stop the victim moving, but not full anesthetic.
The victim here was more likely to have been psychologically abused into submitting to her abusers whims for this though.
Drusas@fedia.io · 1 pts · 38d
Yeah, but then survival instinct due to horrible pain would set in.
unknown@piefed.social · 1 pts · 38d
Which is why she left and got help at the shop.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 39d
Rest of the fucking altercation.
4am@lemmy.zip · 78 pts · 39d
Tell me, Mr Anderson…What good is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 27 pts · 39d
Well, this is nightmare fuel.
Psythik@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 38d
Reminds me of that scene in Season 2 of The Walking Dead game, where you have to sow up a gaping wound on your arm with a needle and thread. Definitely the most uncomfortable experience I've ever had while playing a video game.
(And then there's the scene with the dog. I love this game so much but I can never play it a second time.)
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 39d
Why did she use a piece of paper, though? Why not simply go 'hnnrgh' through sewn lips, and credit the people in the shop with enough intelligence to figure out her lips were sewn shut, and that there was the slight possibility she might need help?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 39d
Perhaps to be sure they wouldn't think it was a prank?
kahoodd@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 39d
PervServer@fedinsfw.app · 3 pts · 39d
"kakkoii cosplay bro"
Carighan@piefed.world · 10 pts · 39d
I mean, who among us hasn't thought about this? 🤷
dan1101@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 39d
Duct tape or a gag maybe. Sewing them shut is psycho behavior tho.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 39d
He said thought
kevincox@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 39d
We have all evaluated the options. Most of us decided that sewing was in fact too extreme.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 38d
If you didn't decide that taping their mouth shut wasn't too extreme too, there's a problem
Drusas@fedia.io · 9 pts · 38d
Wait--how is this oniony?
razzazzika@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 38d
Cause it sounds like the plot of a B- Horror movie.
Drusas@fedia.io · 7 pts · 38d
Jesus fucking christ.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net · 3 pts · 39d
New “Chicago” character just dropped.