Last updated on December 9, 2021 by Roger Kaufman
Hachiko the four-legged friend had been waiting for his master for almost ten years 🐕
He was a Japanese Akita dog who is still considered the epitome of loyalty in Japan today.
“If you pick up a starving dog and feed him,
then he won't bite you. That's the difference between Dog and Man. " - Mark Twain
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Hachiko was born on November 10, 1923 in Ōdate, Akita Prefecture. In 1924 his owner, the university professor Hidesaburō Ueno, took him to Tokyo. From then on, the dog picked up his master from Shibuya Station every day.
When the professor died of a cerebral hemorrhage during a lecture on May 21, 1925, his widow moved away from Tokyo.Hachiko was given to relatives living in the city, but ran away from there and continued to come to one every day Time to the train station to wait for his master.
Finally, Kikuzaburō Kobayashi, Professor Ueno's former gardener who lived near the train station, took over Hachiko's care.
While Hachiko was viewed as a troublemaker on the station grounds in the first few years and was only tolerated in silence, in 1928 a new station master even set up a small rest area for him.
In the same year, a former student of Professor Ueno, who was doing research on AkitaDoge carried out the dog again by chance. When he found out that Hachiko was one of only about thirty purebred Akita dogs left, he began to grow closer to Hachiko History interested and wrote several articles about it.
In 1932, the publication of one of these articles in a Tokyo newspaper made Hachiko whole Japan known, and he became the epitome of the loyal dog during his lifetime.
Respect for Hachiko culminated in the erection of a bronze statue on the west side of the station in 1934, the dedication ceremony of which Hachiko also attended.
Dermoplastic by Hachiko at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Tokyo
When Hachiko was found dead in a Shibuya street on March 8, 1935, after waiting for his owner for almost ten years, the media nationwide reported his death Tod.
Research in 2011 by a team of researchers at the University of Tokyo revealed that Hachiko had suffered from severe filariasis as well as lung and heart cancer.
Each of these diseases can be the cause Tod have been. His body is located today prepared in the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Tokyo's Ueno district.
Source: Wikipedia
