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In 1924, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo, took in Hachikō, a golden brown Akita, as a pet. This is Dr Hidesaburō Ueno.
Hachikō greeted him at the end of each day at the nearby Shibuya Station. The pair continued their daily routine until May 1925, when Professor Ueno did not return.
The professor had suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage and died, never returning to the train station where Hachikō was waiting.
Each day for the next nine years Hachikō awaited Ueno's return, appearing precisely when the train was due at the station.
Everyone was touched with his story of loyality published in newspapers and articles.Despite people’s loving intentions,Hachiko lived as a stray and ate
scraps,handouts,worms etc.He became an old,sick,scared dog.But he still waited everday in a hope of a return of his master.
In March,1935 he finally died in a Shibuya street
Hachikō's stuffed and mounted remains are kept at the National Science Museum of Japan in Ueno, Tokyo. His monument is in Aoyama cemetery in Minatoku, Tokyo
He waited for his master for almost 10years.He became a celebrity and subject of many Japanese blockbuster movies and books.
Even a ceremony to remember Hachiko every year on April 8….
In 1994, the Nippon Cultural Broadcasting in Japan was able to lift a recording of Hachikō barking from an old record that had been broken into several pieces. A huge advertising campaign
ensued and on Saturday, May 28, 1994, 59 years after his death, millions of radio listeners tuned in to hear Hachikō bark.
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