"We rely on Taiwan" - Wakayama Prefecture Shirahama town mayor refuses to plead with China-Japan Parliamentary League delegation for "panda contract extension" (below)

It has been decided that all four giant pandas kept at the leisure facility "Adventure World (AW)" in Shirahama Town, Wakayama Prefecture will be returned to China at the end of June. The pandas that contributed to attracting tourists to the town will be absent. Yasuhiro Oe, a former member of the House of Councilors who became the mayor of Shirahama Town in May last year, told Sankei Shimbun...