In February 1958, the observation ship sent a plane to pick up the first batch of expedition team members from the Showa Base in Antarctica. Before leaving, Shioda and others tied up 15 birch dogs and left them for the second batch of team members who were about to come to take over. Unexpectedly, due to extremely bad weather, the second batch of team members was unable to fly to the base, and the original plan was canceled. All teams...