Hachiko, an Akita, was born in 1923. When he was two months old, he went to live with Hidesaburo Ueno, a professor at the University of Tokyo. Hachiko and the professor lived in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. The professor commuted to his job on the train.

Hachiko would watch the professor leave the house every day. And every day at 4:00 p.m., Hachiko would greet the professor at the Shibuya train station, and they would walk home together. Life was wonderful for the young dog until May 21, 1925, when the professor didn't show up.

Professor Ueno had suffered a stroke at work. He died without ever coming back to his house. Hachiko, of course, didn't know this. He waited and waited, and then walked home alone. He came back to the station the next day. He came back the day after that. He came back at 4:00 p.m. every day until he died nine years later.

Hachiko wasn't abandoned. He was taken in by a new family, but Hachiko didn't want a new family. He escaped from the house and ran back to his old home. Eventually, Hachiko understood that the professor didn't live at the old house anymore, but nothing could stop the loyal dog from waiting for his master at the train station, day in and day out.

People began to recognize the big, golden dog at Shibuya Station. The station master put out food for him. One day, a former student of Professor Ueno's spotted him. He followed Hachiko and learned his story. This student began writing articles about Hachiko. Soon, loyal Hachiko was famous throughout Japan. Though Hachiko himself has passed on1 you can still see him at Shibuya Station: a statue of him was erected there to honor his great heart.

小八是隻秋田犬，他出生於1923年。在他兩個月大的時候，被送給了東京大學的教授上野英三郎扶養。小八和教授住在東京的澀谷區，當時教授上班必須搭火車通勤。

小八每天看著教授出門，到了下午四點，小八就會到澀谷車站去迎接教授，然後他們會一起走路回家。對這隻年幼的小狗來說，生活十分地美好，直到1925年5月21日這天，教授的身影竟然沒有出現在車站。

上野教授在工作途中突然中風，還來不及回家就去世了。不知情的小八等了又等，然後獨自回家。隔日他又回到車站，再隔了一天，他又再回去。之後他每天下午四點就回到車站報到，直到九年後他去世為止。

小八並沒有被遺棄，他被一戶新的人家收養，但小八並不想要新的家人。他逃離了新主人的房子，跑回去舊家。最後小八終於明白教授再也不住在舊家了，但這隻忠心的狗兒還是風雨無阻，日復一日地在車站等著他的主人。

人們開始認得這隻澀谷車站毛色金黃的大狗。站長會拿食物餵他吃。有一天上野教授過去的一名學生看到了小八，他跟著小八走並得知了這個故事，這名學生於是開始撰寫小八的故事。不久之後，忠犬小八的故事便在日本的大街小巷傳開。雖然小八已經離開人間，但你仍然可以在澀谷車站外看到他：他的雕像佇立在那裡，以表揚小八的忠心不二。