Hachiko Was A Gaijin

[Mulboyne]

THE AKITA DOG AND ITS ORIGIN By Keiichi Ogasawara, D.V.M.
...Research data on native domesticated animals seem to indicate that the Akita dog came to Akita from Europe via the U.S.S.R. and Hokkaido...Regional dogs were used to hunt bears and Japanese antelopes in the Kazuno area.[floatr][/floatr] These dogs were used in the Yasato section of Odate, as village guard dogs and hunting dogs...In 1900, two Akita dogs were presented to Emperor Taisho...Around 1915, public opinion strongly favored preservation [and] legislation for the preservation of species was passed...On the occasion of its designation as a natural monument on July 1931, the "Akita dog" was so named for the first time as a Japanese dog. The name was changed from the Odate dog to the Akita dog...The Akita dog gained sudden fame on October 4, 1932, when a news article on Hachiko appeared in the Asahi Shinbun...In July 1937, Miss Helen Keller requested an Akita dog...The great food shortage during the war caused anyone seen feeding dogs to be often branded as traitors. Therefore, many Akita dogs were destroyed at that time since they were quite noticeable due to their huge appetites. Thus, barely a dozen Akita dogs survived the war...The carnivorous dog was fed bracken paste, dog tooth violet starch, potato gruel, squash, daikon and other greens, so that the dog's reproductive power was often diminished, resulting in failure to reproduce, or failure of puppies to thrive due to malnutrition. Amazingly, some of these dogs still survived in spite of these difficulties...However, the news of Miss Helen Keller's and other American's interests in Akita dog led to a great popularity of Akita dog, so that, according to rumors, even the mongrel types of Akita dogs were sold at high prices...more...

FG Thread: The spirit of Hachiko

[American Oyaji]

I don't care WHERE the dog originally came from.

It's a GREAT dog!

My dad's Akita is just wonderful.

[Greji]

Nice looking dog. They also like kids, eat two or three a day.

[maninjapan]

So another important Japanese figure head/idot proves to be a foreigner?

I wonder if they quarantined him when he first came to Japan?

[Ketou]

So another important Japanese figure head/idot proves to be a foreigner?

I wonder if they quarantined him when he first came to Japan?

Everything can be reduced to somewhere else if you're willing to keep pushing the clock back.

[maninjapan]

Everything can be reduced to somewhere else if you're willing to keep pushing the clock back.

yeah but not quite as much as the Japanese royal family with korean blood ties.

My point was that the japanese are so proud of the clear cut blood line its easy to take the piss.

[sillygirl]

Check if the dawg has a gaijin card...