Most recently, an Akita Inu dog made headlines after Russian figure skating champion Alina Zagitova became the owner of a puppy named Masaru. Masaru was raised at Noshiro Kojuso in Noshiro ...

PSKOV, October 8. /TASS/. A schoolgirl from the western Russian city of Pskov has received an Akita Inu puppy as a gift from Russian President Vladimir Putin, the press service of the Pskov Region ...

In summer 2012, Putin received a present of an Akita-Inu dog puppy - the breed well known due to the Kachiko movie - from Governor of Japan’s Akita Prefecture Norihisa Satake TOKYO, December 3.

SEMBOKU, Akita Prefecture—Bukemaru, a beloved Akita Inu who charmed visitors from around the world, died of old age in the Kakunodatemachi district here, an area known as “little Kyoto.” ...