Agi: Orrore in Giappone: incenerisce la moglie nello zoo di Hokkaido. Arrestato

AGI - La polizia giapponese ha arrestato un uomo con l'accusa di aver incenerito il corpo della moglie deceduta, nello zoo in cui lavorava. La polizia ha arrestato Tatsuya Suzuki ieri sera con l'accusa di aver "trasportato il corpo della vittima in una struttura turistica" nell'isola settentrionale di Hokkaido e di averlo "distrutto incenerendolo sul posto", ha dichiarato un funzionario di polizia locale.
La vittima, Yui Suzuki di 33 anni, è stata identificata dai media locali come la moglie. La polizia non ha ancora reso note le cause del decesso.
La confessione e il ritrovamento dei resti
Durante l'interrogatorio, Suzuki ha dichiarato di aver utilizzato l'inceneritore dello zoo, destinato allo smaltimento di rifiuti e carcasse di animali, per bruciare il corpo della donna "per alcune ore", secondo quanto riportato dai media locali. La sua confessione ha spinto la polizia a perlustrare l'inceneritore alla ricerca dei resti, il cui ritrovamento parziale ha portato all'arresto di Suzuki, hanno riferito i media locali.
Le minacce precedenti 
Quando era in vita, la moglie avrebbe confidato ai parenti che il marito la minacciava di "bruciarla fino a non lasciarne più traccia", ha riferito l'emittente pubblica Nhk, citando fonti investigative. Il macabro caso ha costretto lo zoo di Asahiyama, una popolare attrazione turistica chiusa dall'inizio del mese scorso per manutenzione ordinaria in vista della stagione estiva, a posticipare la riapertura prevista per mercoledi'.
La riapertura dello zoo e le scuse ufficiali
Oggi, lo zoo ha ripreso le attività, con i funzionari che si sono inchinati ai visitatori e si sono scusati per il disagio causato. "Lo zoo si trova in una situazione estremamente difficile al momento", ha dichiarato Hirosuke Imazu, sindaco della città di Asahikawa, che gestisce la struttura. "Ma vorremmo trasformare il vostro sostegno nella nostra energia e trasmettervi la bellezza della vita dei nostri animali", ha aggiunto.

Horror in Japan: Burns wife at Hokkaido zoo. Suspect arrested.

AGI - The Japanese police arrested a man on suspicion of incinerating the body of his deceased wife at the zoo where he worked. Police arrested Tatsuya Suzuki yesterday evening on suspicion of “transporting the victim’s body to a tourist facility” on Hokkaido Island’s northern region and of “destroying it by incinerating it on the spot,” according to a local police official.

The victim, 33-year-old Yui Suzuki, was identified by local media as his wife. Police have not yet disclosed the cause of death.

Confession and Discovery of Remains
During questioning, Suzuki stated that he used the zoo’s incinerator, intended for the disposal of waste and animal carcasses, to burn the woman’s body “for several hours,” according to local media reports. His confession prompted police to search the incinerator for remains, the partial discovery of which led to Suzuki’s arrest, local media reported.

Previous Threats
When alive, the wife had confided to relatives that her husband threatened to “burn her to a crisp,” NHK public broadcaster reported, citing investigative sources. The macabre case forced the Asahiyama Zoo, a popular tourist attraction closed since the beginning of last month for routine maintenance ahead of the summer season, to postpone its reopening scheduled for Wednesday.

Zoo Reopening and Official Apologies
Today, the zoo resumed operations, with officials bowing to visitors and apologizing for the inconvenience caused. “The zoo is in an extremely difficult situation at the moment,” said Hirosuke Imazu, mayor of Asahikawa City, which manages the facility. “But we would like to transform your support into our energy and transmit to you the beauty of the lives of our animals,” he added.

#Japan #Burns #Hokkaido #Japanese #TatsuyaSuzuki #HokkaidoIsland’s #YuiSuzuki #Suzuki #theAsahiyamaZoo #OfficialApologies #HirosukeImazu #AsahikawaCity

https://www.agi.it/estero/news/2026-05-01/giappone-corpo-moglie-zoo-36844394/

Shāoshāng Xiǎo Gē is a Chinese burn survivor who creates stunning portraits by striking colored glass thousands of times with a hammer and steel needle, using a stippling-style “glass-point painting” technique to chip the surface and unveil incredibly detailed human faces.

Artist: 烧伤小哥会非遗 / 40458960297 on Douyin #globalmuseum #glass #burns #ChineseArt

The thread about the First Day of Christmas; an Edinburgh Pear Tree connection

This thread was originally written and published in December 2019.

Because of the time of year, let’s do a “Twelve Days of Christmas“-themed thread based around some Edinburgh and Leith local history. Do you remember the tune and the words? Altogether now! And a 1, and a 2, and a 1, 2, 3!

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a Partridge in The Pear Tree House. Better known to most these days as the as The Pear Tree pub and beer garden on West Nicolson Street. It’s an early Georgian 2-storey merchant’s house, built in 1756 for William Reid as his residence as West Nicolson House. There is a date stone of 1749 embedded in its walls, but apparently this is a later, anachronistic addition.

Lady Nicolson, Elizabeth Carnegie, moved here after 1762 when she allowed her own house and parklands to be feud and cleared to make way for Nicolson Street and Square (which took her family name). The Nicolson Baronets had owned the land here since the early 16th century, the title becoming dormant in 1743 on the death of Elizabeth’s husband, the 7th Baronet.

The building is typical of the Edinburgh style from the time, with a gable end and chimney on the façade. It is faced with rubble but would likely have been harled. Part of the fueing conditions were that the front courtyard be enclosed and used only for “the planting of trees;” the beer garden area was this garden and a coach drive.

The house passed to the Kilkerran Baronets – the Fergusson Family. Sir Adam Fergusson (3rd Baronet) entertained James Boswell here in the late 1760s and took tea with him. He sold it in 1770. The poet and minister, the Rev. Dr Thomas Blacklock then resided in rented rooms here and entertained both Dr Johnson and Robert Burns, again tea was taken along side various other “refreshments”. Blacklock had been blind since infancy and gives his name to the upstairs bar of the Pear Tree, the Blind Poet. He is credited with having saved the life of Burns, as a letter he wrote to him in 1789 dissuaded Burns from travelling abroad to the West Indies; the ship he had been due to travel on sank on the voyage.

After Blacklock’s time, the ownership changed again, this time coming into the hands of the Usher family, in whose time it was known as The Usher House.

The Ushers, who gave their name to the concert hall, were an Edinburgh brewing and distilling dynasty. They donated c. £13 million in today’s money to build the hall, and its internal dome is reputed to be modelled on the one at the top of the stairs in the Pear Tree House. Andrew Usher (senior) was a brewer and for a time in the mid-19th century, they used the house as such. However it was with whisky and distilling where they really made it big. Usher pioneered blending malt with grain whisky; his son Andrew (junior) made a fortune in this business and in 1885 – along with John “Green Ginger” Crabbie and William “VAT69” Sanderson – founded the North British Distillery at Gorgie. This is one of the biggest and most successful vertical column grain distilleries and is still going strong.

When the brewery outgrew the house, it moved nearby to St. Leonards at the Park Brewery, with the house used as offices, storage and distribution. In 1918, Usher’s whisky business was acquired by the Distillers Company Limited (DCL) and formed into Scottish Malt Distillers, DCL’s lowland whisky operation. The house passed to a subsidiary, J. & G. Stewart, another long-established Edinburgh whisky name and responsible for Stewart’s Cream of the Barley. It became known locally as The House of Stewart.

When Stewarts moved to Leith in 1972, the house was shut up and abandoned behind its courtyard wall. It was mooted for a potential site of the City Arts Centre, but in 1976 it was restored for use as a pub with the courtyard becoming a beer garden. It took its modern name from an old pear tree growing in the corner of the courtyard.

The Edinburgh and Leith themed Twelve Days of Christmas continues with a thread about The Lochend Dovecot.

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