Lasse Hallstrom's "Hachiko: A Dog's Story" seems certain to win an appreciative family audience. The movie is no masterpiece, but it delivers. By Stephen Farber, The Associated Press SEATTLE — ...

A schoolboy reports on his hero: Hachiko, his grandfather's dog. In a flashback, a puppy at a Japanese monastery is crated and sent to the US. The crate's tag tears, and when the puppy pushes his way ...

In the bustling heart of Tokyo, a bronze statue stands as a tribute to Hachiko, an Akita dog whose unwavering devotion to his owner made him a global icon of loyalty. For nearly a decade, Hachiko ...

Short of scrap metal, the Japanese have sent little Hachiko off to war. Hachiko was a statue of a dog, which stood at the Shibuya Station in Tokyo as a tribute to canine fidelity; the real-life ...

Commuting by train, music professor Parker Wilson finds an Akita puppy, whose cage broke unnoticed during shipping, leaving his destination unknown, and since the station can't care for it and the dog ...