A touching story about medical students at the University of Tokyo, who have thrown themselves at the monument to the frog, is easy to find on the Internet. It is believed that this is how the future doctors expressed their respect to these experimental animals. The reason is a million-strong frog that suffered at the university in the name of science in the 1960s.

There is a history, but the monument is more complicated. There are numerous images and sculptures of frogs in temples, fountains and even manhole covers in the Adathi area, there is an amazing statue of a samurai frog in Matsumoto (at the end of Nawate street). But photos and addresses of the monument to the experimental frog in Tokyo - no