Introduction
With this post about Japan's culture open a new wind of this section, Westerly which can accommodate any legend, fable, story, history or phrase that will move us one step closer to the features of the culture of a country. Study attempts only through such legends as being of a people, the psychological traits that characterize them, their culture, their sociability, to what that do or have done different from the others, their lights and shadows to achieve a better understanding a culture different from ours.
Japan Culture
Near Shibuya Station in Tokyo, the statue of Hachiko, an Akita dog breed. The most famous dog in Japan. The story of Hachiko is explained for decades to children. The story goes that a professor at Tokyo University, Hodesaburo Ueno, Hachiko adopted in 1924. The dog accompanied each day to its owner at the Shibuya station, where the man took the train to go to college. When the teacher returned, there was Hachiko. But Ueno died in 1925 while I was teaching and never came back. Hachiko continued waiting for the return of his master, day after day, for ten years at the Shibuya station.
The dog achieved a certain reputation among the neighbors, and became a truly national phenomenon when one of Ueno alumni sobe he wrote an article in a journal. Even a bronze statue erected in his honor near station. Hachiko died in 1935 and the statue disappeared during the Second World War. The Government needed to take stock of bronze to make weapons. After the war, Japan turned to dedicate a statue to remind the dog most valued virtues of Japan's culture.
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