He finished his graduate work on July 10, 1900, and he began teaching at Tokyo Imperial University, as an assistant professor.

He made efforts toward the education of technical experts in the field of arable land readjustment: studying drainage and reclamation engineering.

Technology of the arable land readjustment was used for the imperial capital revival, after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.

A bronze statue commemorating the dog was set up in front of the Shibuya Station in 1934 a year before his death (March 8, 1935).

[2] The statue was sculpted by Tsutomo Ueda from Nagoya and depicts a very excited Hachikō jumping up to greet his master at the end of a workday.

Her record was later found by Sho Shiozawa, the professor of the University of Tokyo in 2013, who was also the president of the Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering, which manages Ueno's grave at Aoyama Cemetery.