Hachiko: Japan’s dog story gets Americanized
The story of Hachiko, an Akita who came to a train station in Tokyo to wait for his master every day – and for another 10 years after the man died — is coming to the big screen in an Americanized...
View ArticleHachiko: The movie trailer, in Japanese
Here — just because it all seems so circular — is a Japanese trailer for an American movie based on a Japanese legend. The soon to be released “Hachiko: A Dog’s Story” is an Americanized version of...
View ArticleHachiko, come home
Hachiko, the dog, waited every day at Shibuya Station in Tokyo for his master to come home on the train — for more than nine years after his master’s death. Hachiko, in statue form, has sat outside the...
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