Back in 1924, a professor named Hidesaburō Ueno adopted a gold Akita Inu named Hachikō as a pet. Every day after work, Hachikō would greet the professor as he disembarked his train at Japan’s bustling ...
An agricultural scientist at Tokyo’s Imperial University, Hidesaburō Ueno (1872–1925) might have been quickly forgotten after his death, from a cerebral haemorrhage during a lecture, 100 years ago ...