Ueno would commute daily to work, and Hachikō would leave the house to greet him at the end of each day at the nearby Shibuya Station.

The professor had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while he was giving a lecture to his class, and he died without ever returning to the train station at which Hachikō waited.

However, after the first appearance of the article about him in Asahi Shimbun on October 4, 1932, people started to bring Hachikō treats and food to nourish him during his wait.

He returned frequently to visit Hachikō, and over the years he published several articles about the dog's remarkable loyalty.

His faithfulness to his master's memory impressed the people of Japan as a spirit of family loyalty to which all should strive to achieve.

[8] In March 2011, scientists finally settled the cause of Hachikō's death: the dog had both terminal cancer and a filaria infection.

Hachikō's pelt was preserved after his death, and his taxidermy mount is on permanent display at the National Science Museum of Japan in Ueno, Tokyo.

[11][12][13][14] In April 1934, a bronze statue based in his likeness sculpted by Teru Ando was erected at Shibuya Station.

[20][4] The statue was sculpted by Tsutomu Ueda from Nagoya and depicts an excited Hachikō jumping up to greet his master at the end of a workday.

A huge advertising campaign ensued and on Saturday, May 28, 1994, 59 years after his death, millions of radio listeners tuned in to hear Hachikō's bark.

The image, which was captured in 1934 by a Tokyo bank employee, shows the dog relaxing by himself in front of Shibuya Station.

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.

Shiozawa was also the president of the Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering, which manages Ueno's grave at Aoyama Cemetery.

[29] The process began with willing consent from the Ueno and Sakano families and the successful negotiations with management of the Aoyama Cemetery.

[33] "By putting the names of both on their grave, we can show future generations the fact that Hachikō had two keepers," Shiozawa said.

Hachikō plays an important part in the 1967 children's book Taka-chan and I: A Dog's Journey to Japan.

[36][37] "Jurassic Bark" (2002), episode 7 of season 4 of the animated series Futurama has an extended homage to Hachikō,[38] with Fry discovering the fossilized remains of his dog, Seymour.

[39] Another children's book, a short novel for readers of all ages called Hachiko Waits, written by Lesléa Newman[40] and illustrated by Machiyo Kodaira, was published by Henry Holt & Co. in 2004.