Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Faithful Elephants (かわいそうなぞう, Kawaisou na Zou, lit. "Pitiful Elephants"), a story written by Yukio Tsuchiya and originally published in Japan in 1951, was published and marketed as a true story of the elephants in Tokyo's Ueno Zoo during World War II. According to the picture book, the Japanese Army had requested that every zoo in Japan poison their large or dangerous animals because they were worried that these animals would escape and harm the general public if a bomb detonated near the zoo.. }
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- Faithful_Elephants comment "Faithful Elephants (かわいそうなぞう, Kawaisou na Zou, lit. "Pitiful Elephants"), a story written by Yukio Tsuchiya and originally published in Japan in 1951, was published and marketed as a true story of the elephants in Tokyo's Ueno Zoo during World War II. According to the picture book, the Japanese Army had requested that every zoo in Japan poison their large or dangerous animals because they were worried that these animals would escape and harm the general public if a bomb detonated near the zoo.".