Erwin Miyasaka

May  in  Japan   is the month in which "Kodomo no hi" (kids), or children's day takes place. Currently, the party is for children of both sexes, but originally it was only for boys.   The  celebration   is specifically the five of May. This festival has a  Chinese origin  and was developed as a purification  ritual  as it was believed that the  fifth  month of the year was bad and that the fifth day of May was particularly adverse. Other names that this month received was " the month of the rains " (although today this is truer in June, really) or sanaezuki, " the month of rice seedlings ."   It is not known for sure when this  festival  began for  children  in Japan, but it is known that it was during the Nara period when the fifth day of the fifth month became the date chosen. However, it was not until 1948 that 5 May was declared a national holiday to celebrate the health and growth of a...

Hachiko  was an  Akita  dog belonging to Hidesaburo Ueno, a professor of agronomic engineering at the University of Tokyo who died in 1925 after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage while imparting one of his classes. However, the faithful dog continued to go every day for 9 years to the station of Shibuya, which is the main station in Tokyo ,  at the time when the train that always brought back to Ueno arrived. The dog , who showed the world the value of friendship and loyalty , was born on November 10, 1923, on a farm near the Japanese city Odate. The animal spent a little time in that place as the villagers gave it to  Eisaburo Ueno , a renowned professor at the  University of Tokyo. From the first contact, Hachiko became Ueno's inseparable friend ; Such was the attachment of the animal, who daily accompanied his master to the station of the train. Every afternoon, when the teacher returned from work, the dog was always waiting for him in the ...