Masae Sakurai, 49, ran a commune-like home, it's being reported -Credit:Youtube A woman has been arrested after allegedly stitching her roommate's lips together with a needle and thread at a residence ...

Police in Japan say a woman's lips were literally sewn shut inside a shared home northeast of Tokyo. Authorities in Ibaraki Prefecture arrested 49-year-old Masae Sakurai on Monday, accusing her of ...

Japanese police arrested a woman near Tokyo for allegedly sewing shut the lips of her housemate, officials said Thursday. The 42-year-old female victim escaped the house in the city of Koga, rushed to ...

Over 1,500 death row inmates at a prison in the Tehran area have been on a hunger strike, according to a report on Tuesday citing Iranian human rights groups, with some of the prisoners going as far ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 49-year-old woman in Japan has been arrested for allegedly sewing her roommate's lips together. Masae Sakurai is alleged to have ...

State executions went up under Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. More than 1,000 death-row inmates held in a unit of Iran’s Ghezel Hesar Prison have entered a third week of a mass hunger strike to ...

The suspect’s acquaintances told TV Asahi that she reportedly had been letting people “who ran away from their homes” live with her, per ‘The Japan Times’ Julia Gomina/Getty The alleged victim escaped ...

According to Japan Today and Asia News Network, the roommate, 42, escaped a day later when Sakurai left the house. The roommate reportedly wore a white face mask as she ran to a nearby shop, carrying ...