The story begins in Tokyo in 1924. A professor at Tokyo University by the name of Hidesaburō Ueno acquired Hachikō to be his dog, a golden brown Akita. Each day the pair would walk to Shibuya Station together, where Professor Ueno would take the train to work. When he would arrive back at the station at the end of the day, Hachikō would always be there at the precise time to meet him and together they would walk home.
A team of researchers at Tokyo University has determined that the famous loyal dog Hachiko may have died of cancer….back in 1935.
Hachikō was an Akita dog and known for his loyalty. He awaited every afternoon in train station for his owner Professor Hidesaburō Ueno who died sunddenly in 1925. But Hatchiko did not understand that his master was gone so four decade until he also died he live as stray so he could come to the station same time with the same missio, to wait.
Scientists have settled a decades-old mystery by naming a cause of death for Japan's most famous dog, Hachiko.
Death Of Hachiko, Legendary Japanese Dog, Explained
TOKYO — Scientists have settled a decades-old mystery by naming a cause of death for Japan's most famous dog, Hachiko, whose legendary loyalty was immortalized in a Hollywood movie starring Richard Gere. They say Hachiko died of cancer and...
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