It's year three of no treats or trickery for Hachiko as about 20 workers began installing fencing and banners around the popular meeting spot outside Shibuya Station just after 6 a.m. on Oct. 30. The ...

Last month, administrators announced that Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward would not be holding any New Year’s Eve countdown events this year. It’s part of a continuing effort to eliminate the drunken, rowdy, ill ...

TOKYO -- A temporary enclosure featuring a printed photo backdrop of Shibuya Station from around 1955 has been installed behind the iconic statue of Hachiko the dog, who waited for the return of his ...

A statue of a dog with one ear up outside Shibuya Station, close to the madness of the Shibuya Scramble intersection, is one of the most popular meeting places in Tokyo. The statue on the station’s ...

A rare photo of Hachiko in old age has emerged a century after the birth of the Japanese Akita Inu dog celebrated around the world for his remarkable loyalty to his owner. The image was provided by a ...

This is what the legend says: In 1924, a professor in Japan named Ueno adopted a 3-month-old Akita puppy. He named the dog Hachiko, Hachi for short, and would take the dog with him every day to the ...

Short of scrap metal, the Japanese have sent little Hachiko off to war. Hachiko was a statue of a dog, which stood at the Shibuya Station in Tokyo as a tribute to canine fidelity; the real-life ...