Born in Odate, Akita Prefecture, in November 1923, Hachiko was adopted by Hidesaburo Ueno, an agricultural professor at today’s University of Tokyo, in January 1924. They lived together near the ...

Read Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog in four sections ... “His brown eyes were fixed on the station entrance.”) Introduction to Professor Ueno and Hachikō and Kentaro’s friendship: Page 6 ...

Hachiko was born on Nov. 10, 1923, in present-day Odate, Akita Prefecture. The dog was taken in by Hidesaburo Ueno, a professor at Tokyo Imperial University, now the University of Tokyo ...

Hachiko was a Japanese Akita Inu born on a farm in the Akita Prefecture of Japan, in 1923. As a puppy, he was purchased by Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the faculty of agriculture at the Tokyo ...

Hachiko was an Akita dog in Japan known for his remarkable loyalty to his owner, Hidesaburo Ueno, a professor at the University of Tokyo. Even after Ueno's death in 1925, Hachiko continued to wait ...