The wife...It was her dog too and she never goes to look for Hachi the entire time at the spot Hachi went every effin day? Then years go by and she doesnt even seem ecstatic that she found her dog? like wtf? I dont even think she brought him home either...Poor Hachi had to rely on scraps from non-owners to get by...
shareYou are right but I guess then there would not be a story, he wouldn’t wait at the train station.
And who knows maybe the real story was the same I don’t really remember, or maybe the real Hachi owner in Japan didn’t even have a wife.
Once I started watching the original japanese movie about Hachi, unfortunately I have never finished it, I only remember the beginning vaguely. But I think it was more true to the real story of Hachi.
That's what I was thinking Nesi..That they tried to stay true to the original story as possible...Only I didn't know about the true story until That little info at the end. So i'm just like "eh..wtf?" I really hope the true story did not involve a wife, because if there was one. She was the WORST dog owner in the world.
shareI agree. According to the movie she seems like the worst dog owner in the world.
But I did google Hachi just now and found some info, his owner indeed had a wife.
Yaeko Sakano more often referred as Yaeko Ueno, was an unmarried partner to Hidesaburō Ueno for about 10 years until his death in 1925.
Mrs. Yaeko was not officially married to Professor Ueno and they had no child of their own but an adopted daughter. Ueno was from a prestigious family in Mie Prefecture and had a fiancée chosen by his father. He disobeyed this, however, and chose Yaeko as his partner.
After Ueno’s unexpected death in May 1925, Yaeko had no rights to his assets under the then civil law and had to leave Ueno residence with her personal possessions only.
After Hachi had become famous, some people irresponsibly speculated that Mrs. Yaeko was a cold person as she “abandoned” Hachi, despite the fact that it was far from the truth. Hachi was reported to have shown great happiness and affection towards her whenever she came to see him.
Yaeko died on 30 April 1961 at the age of 76 and was buried at a temple in Taitō, further away from Ueno's grave, despite her requests to her family members to be buried with her late partner.
In 2013, Yaeko's record which indicated that she had wanted to be buried with Ueno was found by Sho Shiozawa, the professor of the University of Tokyo.
On 19 May 2016 during the ceremony at the Aoyama Cemetery some of the ashes of Yaeko Sakano were buried with Ueno and Hachikō, her name and the date of her death was inscribed on the side of his tombstone, thus fulfilling the reunion of Hachikō's family.
"By putting the names of both on their grave, we can show future generations the fact that Hachikō had two keepers," Shiozawa said. "To Hachikō the professor was his father, and Yaeko was his mother," Matsui added.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/yumig.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/the-reunion-of-hachis-family/amp/
Thank you for finding that Nesi. It definitely paints the "unmarried partner" in a better light.
shareThe wife never wanted the dog to begin with. Anfter the professors death, the dog has been given to the daughter. Only after repeated escapes is he let out, intentionally, to go to the station. They knew where he was. They let him stay there, because thats what Hachi wanted.
shareReally annoyed me, too. Either the daughter or the wife should have kept Hachi. That was no way for him to live.
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