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Artist Builds Touching Memorial To His Dog With Driftwood They Collected Together

For years, artist Liang Renchuan has been visiting beaches near his home in Taiwan to collect driftwood, which he uses to ...

Tokyo's Hachiko dog statue cordoned off for Halloween

The area around an iconic dog statue at Shibuya Station in central Tokyo has been cordoned off one day before Halloween to ...
BBC

Hachiko: The world's most loyal dog turns 100

A statue of Hachiko has stood outside Shibuya station in Tokyo since 1948 The Chinese tagline on the movie poster says it all: "I will wait for you, no matter how long it takes." It tells the true ...
Seattle Times

Mystery solved in death of legendary Japanese dog

Scientists have settled a decades-old mystery by naming a cause of death for Japan’s most famous dog, Hachiko, whose legendary loyalty was immortalized in a Hollywood movie starring Richard Gere. They ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Hachiko: A Dog’s Story — Film Review

Lasse Hallstrom's "Hachiko: A Dog's Story" seems certain to win an appreciative family audience. The movie is no masterpiece, but it delivers. By Stephen Farber, The Associated Press SEATTLE — ...
NPR

Excerpt: 'Hachiko, the True Story of a Loyal Dog'

Washington Post columnist John Kelly recommends this title for readers in first through third grades: Hachiko was a fixture in his Tokyo neighborhood, dutifully waiting every afternoon at Shibuya ...