It
is worth remembering a story that
touched Japan, played by an Akita
called Hachiko. The owner of Hachiko
was a professor of the University
of Tokyo, whom Hachiko went with to
the Shibuya Train Station every day,
where he saw him off and waited for
his return. On May 21, 1925, the professor
died of a heart attack at University.
Hachiko went there, as he always did,
to wait for this owner, who would
never come back, refused to leave
the station without his owner. For
10 years, Hachiko, due to this loyalty,
waited for his friend at the station
in vain. On March 7, 1935, Hachiko
was found dead on the platform where
he had always waited for his owner.
Today a bronze statue built where
the dog died reminds us of his unconditional
act of loyalty.
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