Hachiko is a monument outside of Tokyo’s Shibuya train station that memorializes a dog with amazing loyalty. He was brought to Tokyo in 1924 by his owner Hidesaburo Ueno, an agriculture professor at the University of Tokyo. They established a pattern where Ueno would walk with Hachiko to the station in the morning, where he [...]
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On the first working day of the year, Japanese company men and women are required to go to the nearest temple and pray for the well-being of the company. It is usually a corporate event, so entire offices walk together and crowd into temples in amazingly long queues. Corporate executives also take the time to [...] |
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