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Hachiko was born in Odate in Akita Prefecture, November 10 1923. He was an exemplary white male Akita. At the age of two months, was adopted by Hidesamuroh Ueno, a professor in the department of agriculture in Tokyo, which took him with him at his home in Shibuya. Every morning, Professor Ueno is directed to Shibuya station to go to work. His faithful dog always accompanied him and returned to the station when his master was part of the working day.

Unfortunately, May 21 1925, Ueno died of cardiac arrest while he was at university. Hachiko, like every day, he appeared at the station for the 3 pm (the time in which his boss usually arrived), but Professor Ueno had not yet returned. The dog waiting in vain for his arrival. Nevertheless, he returned to the station the next day and did so in the following days. Over time, the chief of Shibuya and the people who took the daily train began to notice him and tried to look after offering food and shelter.

With time, all the Japanese people came to know the story of Hachiko, so much so that many people just went to Shibuya to see and to be able to caress. Despite the passing years and his advancing age, which gradually weakened him, the dog Undaunted he continued to travel to the station to revise its master. In April 1934, was realized, by the sculptor Teru Ando, a bronze statue in his likeness that was placed in the station of Shibuya (another kind was erected in Odate, his birthplace), the same dog was present at the opening.

Hachiko exhibited in the Museum of ShibuyaL'8 March 1935 to filariasi Hachiko died at the age of 12 years, after waiting, uninterrupted, for over 10 years, the return of his master. His death was merciless, the Japanese community, the news was included in all the front pages of Japanese newspapers and was declared a day of mourning to remember the repeated gesture of loyalty to its owner.

With the coming of the Second World War, the Japanese government, requiring large quantities of metal to build weapons, ordered to use also the statue of Hachiko. In 1948, three years after the end of the conflict, Ando Takeshi, son of Teru, received the commission to sculpt a new statue of the dog, in the same place of the previous year.

Despite the body of Hachiko was preserved through taxidermy and exhibited at the National Museum of Nature and Science in the northwest of the station, some of his bones are buried in the cemetery in Aoyama, beside the grave of Professor Ueno. On 8 April of each year in Japan will be organized a ceremony to remember Hachiko, as part of various dog lovers who bring their tribute to his loyalty and his devotion.

Description
Hachiko was born in Odate in Akita Prefecture, November 10 1923. He was an exemplary white male Akita. At the age of two months, was adopted by Hidesamuroh Ueno, a professor in the department of agriculture in Tokyo, which took him with him at his home in Shibuya. Every morning, Professor Ueno is directed to Shibuya station to go to work. His faithful dog always accompanied him and returned to the station when his master was part of the working day.

Unfortunately, May 21 1925, Ueno died of cardiac arrest while he was at university. Hachiko, like every day, he appeared at the station for the 3 pm (the time in which his boss usually arrived), but Professor Ueno had not yet returned. The dog waiting in vain for his arrival. Nevertheless, he returned to the station the next day and did so in the following days. Over time, the chief of Shibuya and the people who took the daily train began to notice him and tried to look after offering food and shelter.

With time, all the Japanese people came to know the story of Hachiko, so much so that many people just went to Shibuya to see and to be able to caress. Despite the passing years and his advancing age, which gradually weakened him, the dog Undaunted he continued to travel to the station to revise its master. In April 1934, was realized, by the sculptor Teru Ando, a bronze statue in his likeness that was placed in the station of Shibuya (another kind was erected in Odate, his birthplace), the same dog was present at the opening.

Hachiko exhibited in the Museum of ShibuyaL'8 March 1935 to filariasi Hachiko died at the age of 12 years, after waiting, uninterrupted, for over 10 years, the return of his master. His death was merciless, the Japanese community, the news was included in all the front pages of Japanese newspapers and was declared a day of mourning to remember the repeated gesture of loyalty to its owner.

With the coming of the Second World War, the Japanese government, requiring large quantities of metal to build weapons, ordered to use also the statue of Hachiko. In 1948, three years after the end of the conflict, Ando Takeshi, son of Teru, received the commission to sculpt a new statue of the dog, in the same place of the previous year.

Despite the body of Hachiko was preserved through taxidermy and exhibited at the National Museum of Nature and Science in the northwest of the station, some of his bones are buried in the cemetery in Aoyama, beside the grave of Professor Ueno. On 8 April of each year in Japan will be organized a ceremony to remember Hachiko, as part of various dog lovers who bring their tribute to his loyalty and his devotion.