Hachiko
Another faithful friend was Hachiko, a purebred Akita born in 1923 in the Japanese city of Odate. Just the same, less that one year later, his owner, a professor of horticulture named Hidesamuro Ueno, took him to Tokyo. There, Hachiko became accustomed to city life, and every evening would go down to the Shibuya train station to meet his master when he returned from work. Unfortunately, Ueno died in 1925 and was never taken home again, and so Hachiko was left abandoned in the streets. Nevertheless, for 11 years he faithfully returned every evening to the train station, at the exact arrival time of the train that Ueno would take. When the train had come to a stop, Hachiko would carefully look for his master among the crowd that arrived, and finally he would retreat.
Finally after a number of years, a former student of Ueno, who found himself taking the census of akitas, heard the story, and published various notes with the story of the faithful dog. One of these notes appeared in the most important newspaper in Tokyo. Thanks to this, Hachiko became famous on a national level and many stories and poems were written around him. However, more important yet, Hachiko was saving his breed, of which there were only 30 akitas left in all of Japan. And from that moment on there was an order that they be carefully preserved. Today, the population of akitas is in the thousands. Hachiko is remembered by a statue of him at the Shibuya train station.
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