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He told me the story of the dog Hachiko.
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A dog waited every day for his master at the station.
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The master died, and the dog didn't know it,
and he continued to wait all his life.
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People were moved and brought him food.
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After his death a statue was erected in his honor,
in front of which sushi and rice cakes are still placed
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so that the faithful soul of Hachiko will never go hungry.
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Tokyo is full of these tiny legends, and of mediating animals.
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The Mitsukoshi lion stands guard on the frontiers of what was once
the empire of Mr. Okadaa great collector of French paintings,
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the man who hired the Château of Versailles to celebrate
the hundredth anniversary of his department stores.
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In the computer section I've seen young Japanese
exercising their brain muscles like the young Athenians at the Palaistra.
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They have a war to win.
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The history books of the future will perhaps place the battle of integrated circuits
at the same level as Salamis and Agincourt,
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but willing to honor the unfortunate adversary by leaving other fields to him:
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men's fashions this season are placed under the sign of John Kennedy.