Under Japan’s agreement, Xiang Xiang, whose parents are still on loan at Ueno Zoo, must be sent to China despite having been born and raised in Japan. (This article was compiled from reports by ...

Now the whole world is watching China’s dogged attempt to keep pandas on the map—which in ... whose name honors the friendship between Japan and China—appears at the fence looking for ...

The zoo's first pair of pandas arrived in 1972, marking the signing of a peace treaty between Japan and China.Expectations are running ... Visitors to Ueno Zoo have fallen to around 3 million a year ...

There were emotional scenes at Tokyo’s Ueno zoo, where visitors flocked for the last public viewing of giant pandas Ri Ri and Shin Shin on Saturday, before they are sent back to China.

The pandas Ri Ri and Shin Shin arrived at Ueno Zoo in 2011 and were due to stay until February 2026, but Japan and China agreed it would be better for the 19-year-olds to return to their home country ...

The area is believed to be home to more than 70 percent of the approximately 1,800 pandas in the wild ... and notes her birthplace as Japan. Zookeeper Zhao Lanlan is in charge of Xiang Xiang's ...