The origin of the Japanese Chin is in many aspects a mystery. One theory is that as early as 520 A.D., Buddhists monks took tiny dogs with flat noses, called Skoku-Ken, from China to Japan during their missions. "These dogs were said to symbolize the sacred Lion off Buddha" According to the Chinese Zodiac, you are a dog, if you were born during these years:1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006.