Two pandas at a Tokyo zoo will be returned to China in January, the Tokyo government said on Monday, potentially leaving ...

Japan’s last pandas set to leave in symbolic moment for breakdown of diplomacy with China - Japan will be without pandas for ...

A Japanese zoo is fighting back after authorities in Hokkaido prefecture issued a closure order for the facility exhibiting ...

The two pandas, twins Lei Lei and Xiao Xiao, live at Ueno Zoological Gardens in central Tokyo. They were loaned to Japan under ...

For Nakagawa, Hanako’s death marked the beginning of a larger effort to help companionless zoo elephants in Japan. She teamed up with Zoocheck, a Canada-based nonprofit devoted to animal protection, ...

"We recognize the importance of reconfirming the sex of introduced animals, and will take precautions to ensure that this does not happen again," said the zoo Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer ...

SHIRAHAMA, Japan (AP) — Thousands of fans bid a teary farewell Friday to a family of four giant pandas at a zoo in Japan’s coastal town of Shirahama as the animals made their last public appearance ...

TOBE, Japan (WLS) -- An annual training event at a Japanese zoo has become something of a spectacle. The Tobe Zoo held its annual escaped tiger drill Thursday, which features a staff member dressed up ...

The Asa Zoological Park in Hiroshima, Japan, held what might be the cutest emergency drill ever this past Sunday. The zoo had a worker cosplay as a bear on the loose to simulate an animal escape. The ...

Two pandas at a Tokyo zoo will be returned to China in January, Japanese media said, potentially leaving Japan without the beloved animals for the first time in half a century.