Earlier this week, Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo announced that its twin giant pandas, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, will be leaving Japan. Fans knew this would happen someday, as the pandas, though born at Ueno Zoo, are ...

Pandas have stood for friendship between China and Japan since 1972. But the last two are about to go, and a dispute over ...

By bno - Tokyo Office Japan is set to lose its remaining two giant pandas early next year, as the animals housed at Tokyo’s ...

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This week, Tokyo's Ueno Zoo has been gripped by a sense of warmth and reluctance. People have been lining up to bid farewell ...

Twin pandas at a Tokyo zoo are set to be returned to China in late January 2026, leaving none in the country for the first time in ...

Japan risks being without a giant panda on its shores for the first time in more than half a century, as a diplomatic row ...

Visitors watch giant panda Lei Lei at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo on December 16, 2025, a day after Japan announced the pandas will be ...

A day after news broke that the country would soon lose the twin pandas, thousands of fans flocked to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo on ...

Thousands of people queued Tuesday at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens, a day after officials announced that its popular twin ...