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- The Shiba Inu is AKC's 136th breed.
- The Shiba Inu is one of 9 monument breeds to Japan.
- Shibas are considered the oldest and smallest of Japan's dogs.
- The Shiba Inu is a superb hunting dog, and the ancestors of the breed were the hardiest survivors of Japan's mountainous regions. They were originally used to hunt large game, but they are currently used on smaller animals.
- The Shiba Inu is the number-one companion dog in Japan.
- Most of the Shibas shown in the 1930s came from the Yamansashi or San In areas of Japan, and after reaching near extinction after WWII, those Shibas remaining were from three different bloodlines, San In, Mino, and Shin Shu.
- The first documented Shiba in the US was in 1954, but the breed did not receive official AKC recognition until the early '90s.
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