US EditionPanda Politics at Play Once More Between Japan and China
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The Japanese have been stunned by the sudden announcement that twin pandas born at a Tokyo zoo in 2021 must return to China by February. Japan will be without pandas for the first time since 1972, and visitors are rushing to line up to see them one last time.
Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, Japan's last pandas, must be repatriated to China in early 2026. This long-awaited departure comes in a context of increasingly tense diplomatic relations between Tokyo and Beijing, and could leave Japan without Chinese panda for the first time in more than half a century.
When Xiao Xiao and Lei have to go back to China in January, Japan has been there for the first time in a long time without pandas. The animals were only borrowed.
Japan could become panda-free for the first time in more than fifty years, as the diplomatic tension between Japan and China has reached Tokyo's most famous zoo, Ueno Zoo. The two giant pandas (Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei) living in Ueno were brought to Japan as part of Beijing's panda diplomacy as a symbol of friendship and good bilateral relations. They were originally planned to be returned to China in early 2026, and this will happen, but due to t…
The Panda twins Lei and Xiao Xiao will return to China in advance, marking the first total absence of panda in Japan since 1972, in a climate of increasing diplomatic tensions with Beijing
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