Kanako Ikeda, 21, a senior at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo, was rescued at 1:25 a.m. from a Kawasaki condominium where she was being held captive.

The Metropolitan Police Department said those arrested were Choi Gi Ho, 54, a South Korean national, Li Yong, 29, a Chinese, and Kaneo Ito, 49, a Japanese.

The student's mother, Yuko Ikeda, 47, runs a cosmetic surgery clinic and has been featured in the media as someone who "earns 1 million yen an hour."

Officers took Choi and Li into custody at 12:42 a.m. Tuesday outside JR Kawasaki Station. Afterward, officers stormed the condominium when Ito opened the door and found the victim unhurt.

The victim told police she was not treated violently but was frightened throughout the ordeal. She and her mother hugged each other when they were reunited.

"I could not move because I was really scared," the abductee, accompanied by her mother, told reporters after the ordeal, adding she had never seen the kidnappers before. During the news conference she looked tired and her hands trembled.

"I thought I should not report the incident to the police," her tearstained mother said. "(But) I gathered the courage, believing I can only rely on police."

A woman saw Ikeda being abducted at around 12:25 p.m. Monday at a bus stop near her residence in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, and noted the license number of the car used in the abduction, according to police.

About two minutes later, the mother received a call on her cell phone from her daughter, and police quoted one of the kidnappers as saying: "She will be killed immediately if you alert police."

Ito, whose occupation is unknown, disappeared from his home in Iwate Prefecture in February, they said. Ito's 83-year-old mother told a neighbor he went to Tokyo to find work to pay for his daughter's school expenses. The daughter is living with Ito's ex-wife.

According to police, the three rented a station wagon using one of their real names from a rental shop in Shinagawa Ward, saying they needed one with a curtain that could protect an elderly passenger from sunlight.

Police initially stormed the wrong condominium unit after Choi and Li told them the victim was being held "in room 305 of a condo complex near the Tama River."

The victim's mother opened Ikeda Yuko Clinic in Shibuya Ward in 2002. An author of several books on cosmetic surgery, she has made numerous TV appearances to talk about her "minor, noninvasive cosmetic surgery."

Kanako Ikeda has appeared in magazine interviews with her mother. She works as chief executive of her mother's cosmetics firm, Lovehearts, while majoring in economics at Meiji Gakuin.

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