Stories from Asahi · Japan

Two male hikers from Hong Kong were involved in a snow-related accident on Mount Asahi. Chung Kin-man said most people climb mountains in the summer or September. The exact circumstances of the accident were not immediately clear. The accident occurred in a mountainous area.

The Asahiyama Zoo in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, began its summer operations today. The zoo opening was delayed by two days due to a police investigation into a male employee arrested for corpse desecration.

More than half of the extracurricular club activities at Nishi Junior High School in Owari Asahi, Aichi Prefecture, will be suspended starting in September.

A staff member at Asahiyama Zoo in Japan allegedly dumped his wife's body into an animal carcass incinerator. The facility, which opened in 1967, is used for disposing of deceased animals.

Police in Asahikawa, Japan, are questioning a man in his 30s suspected of abandoning his wife's body in an incinerator at Asahiyama Zoo. The suspect, an employee at the zoo, reportedly went to work as usual on April 23 despite the investigation. Authorities are currently looking into the circumstances of the death. A male employee at Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido is undergoing voluntary questioning by authorities.