The dog which waited for his master

So he went to look for his master at the train station where he had accompanied him so many times before.

Each day, Hachiko waited for Professor Ueno to return. And each day he didn't see his friend among the commuters at the station. Many of the people who frequented the Shibuya train station had seen Hachiko and Professor Ueno together each day. This touched the hearts of the commuters, who brought Hachiko treats and food. This continued for 10 years, with Hachiko appearing only in the evening time, precisely when the train was supposed to arrive at the station.

In one of these articles, published in a Tokyo Newspaper, threw the dog into the national spotlight. Hachiko kept the routine and waited his master for almost 10 years until his own death. This new representation shows the famous loyal dog happily reunited with his owner, in a bronze statue installed at the University of Tokyo where his master was a professor photo below. There was an old man who Canelo was a companion. They were inseparable and Canelo accompanied this man wherever he went.

One day at the hospital, his owner suffered complications during his dialysis and died. For almost 12 years, the dog kept the same routine waiting for his owner at the front of the hospital where he took him. Until one day, a car on a street nearby killed Canelo. Fido Photo found on A Path to Lunch.

It was in the middle of World War II. While going back home, a man named Carlo Soriani saw an injured puppy on the street and decided to adopt him. For the course of two years, they went on this routine. On December 30, , the allies bombed the factory where Carlo Soriani worked and he died. In that afternoon, as usual, Fido waited to meet his master and every day after that, and for the next 14 years, the dog went to the bus station in the afternoon to meet him but Carlo never came back.

What began as an act of benevolence of a man had turned out to be one of the most notorious proofs of loyalty in the world. More info. Bobbie Photo found on South Worth James r. It led to a movie with Richard Gere, and a statue, certainly one of the best known in Tokyo, in the lively and touristic district of Shibuya. We share it with you in this article. He is of the Akita Inu breed, a large Japanese primitive dog.

The teacher and the dog quickly adopt a routine. In the evening, the man always comes back at the same time, by the same train: his dog goes to the station alone and waits for him every day.

Hachiko comes to meet his master at the train station but the master does not return. He comes back the next day, and then the next few days. He was fed by passers-by and neighbours, touched by his presence and his story. He finally died at the age of 12, near the Inari Bridge on the Shibuya River, from filariasis and cancer of the lungs and heart.

Part of his remains his fur is stuffed and kept at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo.