A statue of a dog with one ear up outside Shibuya Station, close to the madness of the Shibuya Scramble intersection, is one of the most popular meeting places in Tokyo. The statue on the station’s ...

In Tokyo's Shibuya district, people often gather near a statue of a dog. It honors Hachiko, a dog who waited for his owner long after the man had died. It's a story about habit, loss, and time. In ...

Short of scrap metal, the Japanese have sent little Hachiko off to war. Hachiko was a statue of a dog, which stood at the Shibuya Station in Tokyo as a tribute to canine fidelity; the real-life ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hachikō was then passed around to different families outside Shibuya before he eventually ended up with Ueno’s gardener Kikusaburo ...

TSU--A century after an Akita Inu dog was born in northeastern Japan, his legacy lives on to this day and even continues ...

Every child in Japan knows the story of Hachiko, the dog who waited at a Tokyo train station to greet his owner each afternoon and who, after his owner's sudden death, continued to wait for him at the ...