FAITHFUL DOG
MEMORIAL ERECTED IN TOKYO. In Tokyo the Japanese have erected a statue in memory of a dog's faithfulness. It is in a railway station and honours Hachiko, a curly-haired dog who dearly loved a university professor. Every day he would escort him to the station, watch him climb aboard his train, and then trot home again. At five he would be at the station once more to greet his master. One day the bottom dropped out of Hachiko’s world. His master was not on the five o'clock train; he had died that day at the university.' The poor dog could not think what had happened to him. He Watched the arrival of every train until it became dark, and then went sadly home. For eight years Hachiko went to the station every day to look for his master, and when he died the people of Japan were so moved by his story that they erected this statue.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19400306.2.95.2
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1940, Page 9
Word count
Tapeke kupu
159FAITHFUL DOG Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1940, Page 9
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in