May 19, 2025
Hachikō the Loyal Akita
Eizaburo Ueno, an agriculture science professor at Tokyo University in Japan, had long wanted a Japanese Akita dog. One of his students encouraged him to adopt Hachikō, from the Odate city in the Akita prefecture of Japan. Ueno soon took him back to live in Shibuya. As Hachiko grew older, he started to see Ueno off to work in the morning at the Shibuya Train Station. Later in the day, Hachikō…