Now don't concentrate on the school girls in sailor uniforms posing. Concentrate on the statue. The statue is in honor of a dog named Hachiko, a very loyal dog.

He loved his master, a professor. So everyday he'd walk the professor to the station, go back home and walk back to the station to wait on the professor. That was until one day the professor died while teaching. Hachiko kept coming back to the station, waiting for his dear master to come home. The local people were so impressed with the dog that they made a statue in his honor, which he attended the inauguration of it in 1934 and finally died a year after the statue was erected. After waiting ten years for his master to come home, perhaps he went home to his master.