Sleep well, Hachiko: Cell phone cameras click at the bronze statue of Hachiko during a 74th memorial service for the Akita, a national symbol of loyalty and faithfulness, in Tokyo. Hachiko would wait every day outside the Shibuya rail station for his owner, University of Tokyo Prof. Eizaburo Ueno, to return home from work. After Ueno died at his job in May 1925, Hachiko was given away, but routinely escaped and ran to the station to wait for Ueno at precisely the time his train arrived. And though he left disappointed every day, the dog repeated the ritual for nearly 11 years.
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