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Tokyo, 2020.07.19

I'd just showed the kids the statue of Hachiko, the faithful dog that waited for its human at Shibuya station long after that man had died. At the next station we emerged to find this statue. I told the kids, "Well, like hachiko the dog, they'd come to this station..."

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