A faithful dog led rescue crews a quarter-mile down a dark Florida highway Saturday night to the scene of his owner's fatal car accident and has been likened to the Japanese Hachiko.

Gregory Todd Travers, 41, lost control of his vehicle on State Road 84 near Davie, slamming into a bridge support and rolling into the stretch of road. While first responders searched for the wreckage, a dog came limping toward them, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports.

Led by Simon the German Shepherd, the group was able to find the wreckage. Simon circled and then licked Travers before jumping into the car next to his owner and waiting.

Tragically, Travers died at the scene.

"I think the dog definitely meant to lead them there," Davie Batallion Chief Robert Belizaire told the Sun-Sentinel. "I think he was out there looking for some help."

The Associate Press reports Simon was taken to Broward County’s animal shelter, where he was later picked up by Travers’ wife.
After his owner died in an accident, Hachiko waited for 11 years at the station for him to come home. The story was made into a film in Japan in 1987 and then remade in the United States in 2009, starring Richard Gere.

Naoto Matsumura remains inside the exclusion zone, without electricity and running water and braving the loneliness and the constant threat of exposure to elevated levels of radiation

By Glen Milner, The UK Telegraph, Video Journalist, 06 Mar 2012

Tomioka, where Mr Matsumura still resides, is just eight miles from Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant – well within the 13-mile exclusion zone – and the other residents have long since fled.

"I was working when the earthquake hit and we heard on the radio that a tsunami was on its way, so I waited a while before trying to get home," said Mr Matsumura, who used to operate road-laying machinery.

"The next day, I heard the explosion at the plant," he said. "I didn't need anyone to tell me what had happened because the 'boom' was huge."  Living with his mother and father and a couple of locals in the house, they heard more explosions. Finally, they decided to head south. "I knocked on the door of my aunt's house in Iwaki, but she wouldn't let any of us in because she said we were contaminated.

"So we went to a nearby shelter, but they wouldn't let us stay there either, so we went home," he says. In April, Mr Matsumura's mother was taken ill so the rest of the family went to stay with relatives outside the original 18-mile recommended exclusion zone.

"We couldn't take the animals with us, so I stayed behind," he says.
After a year, Mr Matsumura, 52, appears to prefer the company of his animals to humans."I don't get bored," he says. "I am used to it, and anyway, there are lots of animals here so I'm never really alone."