Actually Hachiko was a dog in Japan and the rest of the world was unveiled pro loyalty until death
The name comes from the word Hachiko Hachi means eight and named it as the puppy number 8 on this litter as well as its owner, Eisaburo Ueno, a professor at Tokyo University, noticed that his legs had one little crooked, just like the Kanji representing the number 8 in Japanese 八, termination in ko, meaning prince, so being named the puppy, Akita breed as Hachiko
Originally, the dog came home as the mascot Professor aimed at her daughter, who soon married and left home, staying Hachiko teacher care, spending too much time together, one did not go without the other and needless say that they became inseparable
The only separation they had was when Professor Ueno had to go to work, in the Shibuya train station, the dog always wanted to follow his own and then obviously could not transport animals, the teacher apparently sent home to Hachiko and the train approached, but remained Hachiko at the station to wait until returning
So it was that for a few years it became a routine, Hachiko was waiting for his owner every day at the same hour on his return from college classes
And so many more years would have continued if not surprised the teacher death
A normal morning, following the usual routine, dog and master were fired at the station, but the professor died while giving a class in college, victim of a brain hemorrhage, obviously everyone is full of death, less Hachiko, who was left to wait for his master at the station, I hope for 10 years, was there waiting for his master every day, at the same time, no matter if it was raining, snowing, Hachi still there and as both users and staff station because the dog knew the day was there waiting for her owner, became known, being named Faithful Dog Hachiko.
After 10 years of waiting for its owner, a day Hachi died, victim of filariasis, his remains were buried in a special box at the grave of Professor Ueno, even shortly after his body was recovered, restored and dissected, being in exihibicion at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Tokyo ', which was the district where Hachi and Professor lived.
There is a statue of Hachiko, in the same place in life waiting for his owner, in the current railway station and Metro Shibuya, in fact the same Hachiko was present at the unveiling of his own statue, and one of the multiple outputs that station is named Hachiko Exit, being the quintessential meeting point of thousands of people at that station, and in the same place, every year he performs a tribute
Hachiko was born in 1923, died in 1935 and I hope his owner for 10 years.
