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大館市 | 2024.2

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[thepastisalreadywritten]

Hachiko: The world's most loyal dog turns 100

2 July 2023

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 story of Hachiko, the faithful dog that continued to wait for its master at a train station in Japan long after his death.

The cream white Akita Inu, born 100 years ago, has been memorialised in everything from books to movies to the cult science fiction sitcom Futurama.

And the Chinese iteration - the third after a Japanese version in 1987, and the Richard Gere-starrer in 2009 - is a hit at the box office.

There have been tales of other devoted hounds such as Greyfriars Bobby, but none with the global impact of Hachiko.

A bronze statue of him has stood outside Shibuya Station in Tokyo, where he waited in vain for a decade, since 1948.

The statue was first erected in 1934 before being recycled for the war effort during World War Two.

Japanese schoolchildren are taught the story of Chuken Hachiko - or loyal dog Hachiko - as an example of devotion and fidelity.

''Hachiko represents the ideal Japanese citizen with his unquestioning devotion," says Professor Christine Yano of the University of Hawaii - "loyal, reliable, obedient to a master, understanding, without relying upon rationality, their place in the larger scheme of things."

The story of Hachiko

Hachiko was born on 10 November 1923 in the city of Odate in Akita prefecture, the original home of Akitas.

A large-sized Japanese dog, the Akita is one of the country's oldest and most popular breeds.

Designated by the Japanese government as a national icon in 1931, they were once trained to hunt animals like wild boar and elk.

"Akita dogs are calm, sincere, intelligent, and brave [and] obedient to their masters," said Eietsu Sakuraba, author of an English language children's book about Hachiko.

"On the other hand, it also has a stubborn personality and is wary of anyone other than its master."

The year Hachiko was born, Hidesaburo Ueno, a renowned agricultural professor and a dog lover, asked a student to find him an Akita puppy.

After a gruelling train journey, the puppy arrived at the Ueno residence in Shibuya district on 15 January 1924, where it was initially thought dead.

According to Hachiko's biographer, Prof Mayumi Itoh, Ueno and his wife Yae nursed him back to health over the next six months.

Ueno named him Hachi, or eight in Japanese. Ko is an honorific bestowed by Ueno's students.

The long wait

Ueno took a train to work several times a week. He was accompanied to Shibuya station by his three dogs, including Hachiko. The trio would then wait there for his return in the evening.

On 21 May 1925, Ueno, then 53, died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Hachiko had been with him for just 16 months.

"While people were attending the wake, Hachi smelled Dr Ueno from the house and went inside the living room. He crawled under the coffin and refused to move," writes Prof Itoh.

Hachiko spent the next few months with different families outside Shibuya but eventually, in the summer of 1925, he ended up with Ueno's gardener Kikusaburo Kobayashi.

Having returned to the area where his late master lived, Hachiko soon resumed his daily commute to the station, rain or shine.

"In the evening, Hachi stood on four legs at the ticket gate and looked at each passenger as if he were looking for someone," writes Prof Itoh.

Station employees initially saw him as a nuisance. Yakitori vendors would pour water on him and little boys bullied and hit him.

However, he gained nationwide fame after Japanese daily Tokyo Asahi Shimbun wrote about him in October 1932.

The station received donations of food for Hachiko each day, while visitors came from far and wide to see him.

Poems and haikus were written about him. A fundraising event in 1934 to make a statue of him reportedly drew a crowd of 3,000.

Hachiko's eventual death on 8 March 1935 at the age of 11 made the front page of many newspapers. He was found on a street in Shibuya.

In March 2011, scientists finally settled the cause of death of Hachikō: the dog had both terminal cancer and a filaria infection.

There were also four yakitori skewers in Hachikō's stomach, but the skewers did not damage his stomach nor cause his death.

At his funeral, Buddhist monks offered prayers for him and dignitaries read eulogies. Thousands visited his statue in the following days.

In impoverished post-war Japan, a fundraising drive for a new statue of Hachiko even managed to raise 800,000 yen, an enormous sum at the time, worth about 4bn yen (£22m; $28m) today.

"In retrospect, I feel that he knew that Dr Ueno would not come back, but he kept waiting - Hachiko taught us the value of keeping faith in someone," wrote Takeshi Okamoto in a newspaper article in 1982.

As a high school student, he had seen Hachiko at the station daily.

Remembering Hachiko

Every year on 8 April, a memorial service for Hachiko is held outside Shibuya Station.

His statue is often decorated with scarves, Santa hats and, most recently, a surgical mask.

His mount is on display at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo.

Some of his remains are interred at the Aoyama Cemetery, alongside Ueno and Yae.

Statues of him have also been cast in Odate, Ueno's hometown Hisai, the University of Tokyo and Rhode Island, the American setting for the 2009 movie.

Odate also has a series of events lined up this year for his 100th birthday.

Will the world's most loyal dog still be celebrated a century from now? Prof Yano says yes because she believes the "heroism of Hachiko" is not defined by any particular period - rather it is timeless.

Mr Sakuraba is equally optimistic.

"Even 100 years from now, this unconditional, devoted love will remain unchanged, and the story of Hachiko will live on forever."

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[japonaiswasabi]

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[rhea-ripley]

SummerSlam || August 05 - 2023

#iyo sky #masami odate #bayley #pamela rose martinez #damage ctrl #wwe #wweedit #wwe gifs #wwe summerslam #wwe summerslam 2023 #summerslam #summerslam 2023 #my gifs #tw flashing lights

[womenofwrestlingfashion]

Smackdown 1/12/24

Iyo wore the 2 Way Cargo Overdyed Denim from Spiral Girl (¥16,500 - $113)

#iyo sky #masami odate #2 Way Cargo Overdyed Denim #jean #jeans #spiral girl #women of wrestling fashion #wwe #smackdown

[timebokanman]

Promotional image for Tatsunoko’s 60th anniversary, featuring the Doronbo trio in a band.  Doronjo’s guitar was also made into a prize you could win as part of a campaign.

#doronjo #boyacky #tonzler #tatsunoko #tatsunoko 60th #guitar #band #odate buta

[disregardcanon]

todd grinnell plays the token gringo in both one day at a time (2017) and with love (2021) and i think this man is getting type casted in a very fun way XD

#personal nonsense #todd grinnell #odat #with love 2021

[cleanaf]

na is a cult ....

#cleanafclothing #onedayatatime #justfortoday #thinkthinkthink #recoveryispossible #cleanaf #clean #sober #duckfrugs #recoverymeme #soberissexy #sobriety #soberliving #soberlife #addiction #alcoholism #odat #sobermovement #iamnotashamed #hellosundaymorning #gohelpsomeone #aa #na #alcoholicsanonymous #narcoticsanonymous #addictionrecovery #12steps

[fictionandmusic]

it’s so insane that even on one day at a time, where the main cast is Cuban, the English subtitles say (speaking spanish)

#like what the helll!!!! #is it really so fucking hard to have accurate subtitles #that reflect what is happening auditorially #kttalks #one day at a time #odat

[ashitakaxsan]

Momo Watanabe is a Prodigy,she defeats Io Shirai,so she becomes the Wonder of Stardom champion. She went on to hold the title for 358 days and had 13 successful defenses, a record that stood for almost five years.

#Stardom Joshi #スターダム 女子プロレス #Joshi Puroresu #女子プロレス #women pro wrestlers #Momo Watanabe #渡辺桃 #World Wonder Ring Stardom #Io Shirai #Masami Odate #大館昌美 #german suplex #wrestling techniques #I Love Japan

[ezekieltobiasfletcher]

I don't mean to be such a "recovery blog" these days. That being said, my "program" is one of a few things keeping me going right now. On the outside, it doesn't look like much in my life is changing. And I appreciate that I've learned to look at life as it is. To look at what's actually happening rather than what my fear and ego are imagining is happening. Well, that pit of anxiety I feel in my stomach still hasn't got the memo (or worse, it doesn't give a fuck about the memo yet) because I still feel out of sorts most days. When some things feel relentless, living one day at a time is the best I can do. I just want to feel the serenity I feel on Saturday mornings to also be there Monday mornings, Tuesday mornings, Wednesday Mornings...

For now, I'll just keep saying the serenity prayer over and over between when I first wake up and when I finally tell myself, "alright, put your feet on the floor and go make some coffee."

As a good friend told me once, "Fuck you," is just as valid a prayer as, "Thank you," or, "Please help." Just sayin'.

#fuck mondays #12steps #recovery #out of sorts #odat #prayer

[japonaiswasabi]

超絶お🉐な晩酌セットがコチラになります🫲 いつもありがとうございます😊 #晩酌セット🍱 #テイクアウト #海老と野菜の天丼 #天ダレbeforeafter #大館市 #居酒屋 #秋田県 #AKITA #Odate #Japan #NIPPON #izakaya #omakase (Restaurant Japonais Wasabi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CowdE4SyPJ4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#晩酌セット🍱 #テイクアウト #海老と野菜の天丼 #天ダレbeforeafter #大館市 #居酒屋 #秋田県 #akita #odate #japan #nippon #izakaya #omakase

[gregorychatman]

With all the sunlight the Spirit shows.. #goodmorningquotes #anonymousbookclub #cleanandsoberjourney #sasto #musiclovers #cancerwarriors #GetOutDoors #galaxyofdetails #doingthework #odat #nolstalgicviews #somethingbeautiful https://www.instagram.com/p/ChhfodKL1Xc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#goodmorningquotes #anonymousbookclub #cleanandsoberjourney #sasto #musiclovers #cancerwarriors #getoutdoors #galaxyofdetails #doingthework #odat #nolstalgicviews #somethingbeautiful

[rhea-ripley]

SummerSlam || August 05 - 2023

#iyo sky #masami odate #wwe #wweedit #wwe gifs #wwe summerslam #wwe summerslam 2023 #summerslam #summerslam 2023 #my gifs #tw flashing lights

[seriously-mike]

Generation Gap

Me: As an old Chinese proverb says, even a piggy can climb a tree when it's praised. @jurian-is-cinnamon-roll: Oh, I felt it deep inside. But I can be a piggy, why not. 🩷 Me: ...oh fuck me, we have a generation gap here. People who got into anime through Sailor Moon or later don't know the piggy scene.

I'm not sure whether I mentioned it before, but shortly after the fall of communism, a shitton of private TV stations popped up ass outta nowhere, airing the weirdest things. For example, Polonia 1 - a channel apparently backed by some Italian company that got a shitton of various tapes - telenovelas from all over South and Central America, old anime like Yatterman, Time Bokan, Daimos, Dash Kappei, Tiger Mask, Captain Tsubasa and so on (by some miracle - not Fist of the North Star), some of them with Italian dubs that the typical Polish one-person voiceover went over, and some people old enough to remember that also know the gags like Dash Kappei chasing panties or the Odate Buta. However, the Polish translation of Odate Buta's line, quoted above, has an entirely different meaning: that even the most unlikely and awkward person can achieve things with proper encouragement.

#Mike's Musings #anime #yatterman #yattaman #odate buta #Polandcore #Polishwave #Polonia 1 #generation gap

[obsesseddiary]

MAS QUE DELÍCIA DE SÉRIE!!

#one day at time #netflix #favs #séries #tv shows #odat