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Hachiko Re-Listen

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Hachiko - The Loyal Dog

Hachiko was a akita disembarking at shaby station. For nearly ten years, hachiko had sat outside the station waiting for the professor to step off the evening train. People just saw dog sitting around and assumed he was astray. There were even accounts of people kicking and beating hachiko. But eventually some one did notice a man named sito hirokiche. Soon he pieced together hachiko's story. In 19 32, seven years after the professor's death, cido published an article in a popular japanese newspaper. This article made hachiko famous. Hachiko's name became national shorthand for endurance and faithfulness. He

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