Maybe you have Japanese heritage you want to celebrate, or you're adopting a Japanese dog breed like an Akita or Shiba Inu.

With their small eyes, erect triangular ears and curled tails, Akita Inu dogs have stolen the spotlight at home and abroad. Most recently, an Akita Inu dog made headlines after Russian figure ...

ODATE, Akita Prefecture--Hachiko, the loyal Akita Inu dog that waited for his master’s return at Shibuya Station in Tokyo every day for years after his death, has returned to his hometown here ...

It tells the true story of Hachiko, the faithful dog that continued to wait for its master at a train station in Japan long after his death. The cream white Akita Inu, born 100 years ago ...

Artist Michel Keck failed to persuade a federal appeals court Wednesday that a producer of art kits reproducing her ...

Any family taking on an Akita will need to be aware that they are getting a large and powerful dog. These guys grow to ...

MOSCOW, December 13. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken one of his dogs, a female Akita named Yume, to an interview with Japanese journalists in the Kremlin. “I was told that you ...

Since 2016, an Akita dog named Mosako in Japan has received food, walks and long-distance support from Air New Zealand crew members. Now, as Mosako spends her final days on an air bed watching ...

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A dog has been seized after a man suffered serious injuries to his arm. Police were called to Mayfair Avenue in Middlesbrough at about 20:00 BST on Monday, and an Akita-type dog was taken away ...

L to R: Seitai Hoshikai in Akita, Japan, where Sister Agnes was living when she reported the apparitions; that church is where the wooden statue of Our Lady of Akita can be seen. (photo ...

By Robin Pogrebin Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective. By Siddhartha Mitter ...