A statue of a dog with one ear up outside Shibuya Station, ... Setsuko Yamashita, 92, of Tokyo, said she first met the now-famous Hachiko when she was 5 or 6 years old.

In Tokyo’s Shibuya district, people often gather near a statue of a dog. It honors Hachiko, a dog who waited for his owner ...

He's been famous in Tokyo since 1932, but the city's obsession with Hachiko goes way beyond the Shibuya Station statue. ... Japan's most loyal dog. He's been famous in Tokyo since 1932, ...

The dog was commemorated with a statue at the railway station, and another memorial - depicting a reunion between the long-lost companions - was unveiled at the University of Tokyo in 2015.

The book concludes with a list of 50 famous dog names. Here, T&C excerpts a smaller curation of ten pups, ... He became famous in Japan, and a statue was erected in his honor in Tokyo.

Like Greyfriars Bobby, the story of Hachiko is a famous tale about the devotion of a dog to its human. In the early 1920s Hachiko was the Akita dog of Professor Ueno, a university academic in Tokyo.