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You know Hachikō? He was this dog in Japan, born way back in 1923. He lived with a professor, Ueno. Every morning the dog would go with him to Shibuya Station and then wait for him to come home from work. Then one day, the professor just… died, suddenly. Hachikō didn’t get it. He kept going back to that station every day, waiting for him like nothing had changed.
People didn’t really notice him at first. Some were mean, some ignored him. But then a newspaper wrote about him in 1932, and suddenly everyone knew. People started giving him food, stopping to look at him, just amazed at how patient he was. And he kept going back… every day… for nearly ten years. Can you imagine?
People liked him so much that they even made a statue of him at Shibuya Station while he was still alive, in 1934. The first one got melted down during the war, but they put up another one in 1948, and that’s the one people still see today .
When he died in 1935, they buried him next to the professor. And there’s a statue at Shibuya Station where he used to wait . People still go there to see it. I think it’s amazing, a dog just waiting for his owner every day for years, such loyalty.
References:
Hachikō. (2025, September 28). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D
Statue of Hachikō. (2025, September 25). Wikipedia. Retrieved October 1, 2025, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Hachik%C5%8D