Hachi Spirit Blog

Hachiko’s new statue speaks to many at the Woonsocket train station in Rhode Island, where the film Hachi: A Dog’s Tale was filmed. A replica of the original Shibuya Station statue, it stands for everything Hachi: loyalty, faithfulness and love. Hachi has made friends far and wide, even though he’s not alive. Michael Sultana is […]

One man will always be associated with Fukushima’s animals – 55-year-old Naoto Matsumura, a former construction worker who lives in the 12.5 mile exclusion zone to care for its four-legged survivors. He is known as the “Guardian of Fukushima Animals” because of his volunteer work to feed the animals left behind by people who left due […]

After watching Hachiko’s loyalty in the film “Hachi: A Dog’s Tale,” Katherine Heigl started an initiative to help save homeless canines. The actress recently blogged for iVillage’s CelebVillage series voicing the importance of adopting pets and saving them from being killed each year, originally inspired by Hachiko’s loyalty in Hachi: A Dog’s Tale. Heigl, along with […]

Our dogs mean so much to us. After all, they’re man’s best friend. But sometimes, as in the film, “Hachi: A Dog’s Tale” — we don’t realize just how much we mean to them. The other day I watched the movie ‘Hachiko’ at home, surrounded by my sniffling family. I was perhaps too egotistic to admit […]

Loyal dogs don’t just show their faithfulness to their human counterparts. In fact, many dogs show great devotion to their canine siblings and friends, much like this Siberian dog. Animal activists in Russia’s Siberian city of Yakutsk rescued a dog, who stood guard to the body of his pregnant canine friend for two weeks as […]

Charity auction benefits Last Chance for Animals efforts after the nuclear accident in Fukushima Japan. Yves Trevalec, a television producer from Luxembourg with the City TV Network was the successful bidder for lunch with Paul Mason and me. Mason is the executive producer of “Hachi: A Dog’s Tale.” For the benefit of trapped animals in […]