Video: Rare Earth
The Akita, Hachiko's ...(1)... breed, is a large and dominant ...(1)... breed of dog. So at the time during his owner's life, he would have been considered at the very least a nuisance, and to many, a great source of fear. But every morning, he would ...(2)... follow his owner to Shibuya Station to see him off to work. And every evening, he would come back to ...(3)... pick him up, all by himself. By all accounts a very good dog.
But one day his ower had an aneurism and ...(4)... died. He didn't come back that evening. Hachiko came, but his owner didn't. Hachiko would never see him again. But that didn't stop him from trying. For over nine years, every day he ...(5)... returned to that station to see if his owner would come back.
And even though the modern stories don't show it, he would have been
...(6)... kicked and abused by people at the station, by passengers and station attendants alike. He was a big dog in a ...(7)... cramped city, and he would have been a major source of fear for some of those commuters. People certainly wouldn't have looked kindly on a dog waiting alone at a major station. Yet he returned. Every day, he returned.
In 1972, seven years into his ...(8)... routine, a newspaper caught wind of the story. That one page in the newspaper fundamentally changed not only the life of the dog, but the world in turn, especially the nation of Japan. The story was exactly what 1920's militarized Japanese ...(9)... government was aching for. It was a story of ...(10)... loyalty beyond death.
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Từ mới:
nuisance: mối phiền toái
aneurism: phình mạch
commuter: người đi tàu, xe bằng vé tháng
catch wind of something: nghe đến, biết đến việc gì đó
fundamentally: về cơ bản
militarize: quân phiệt hóa