The Adventure World amusement park and zoo in Japan had to return their final four pandas to China in June 2025 ...

Workers at a Wakayama zoo are dressing up as pandas to give visitors a premium experience after China took back the animals ...

Pandas have stood for friendship between China and Japan since 1972. But the last two are about to go, and a dispute over Taiwan could get in the way of sending more. By Javier C. Hernández and Hisako ...

For more than half a century, pandas have helped serve as ambassadors for China around the world, but their time in Japan appears to be drawing to a close with the last two bears in the country set to ...

TOKYO, Dec 16 (Reuters) - A day after news broke that Japan would soon lose its last two giant pandas to China, thousands of fans flocked to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo on Tuesday to catch a final glimpse, with ...

Dec. 15 (UPI) --Twin giant pandas will leave a Japanese zoo in late January to go home to China, leaving Japan pandaless. Xiao Xiao and his sister Lei Lei have been at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo since ...

Rio was born on Nov. 27 to Hu Chun, a 15-year-old adult female, and Cai Tao. The pair arrived in Indonesia in 2017 on a ...

An infrared camera positioned at an altitude of about 2,800 meters captured rare footage on Thursday of a wild giant panda ...

TOKYO — Thousands of people flocked to Tokyo’s Ueno zoo to have a last glimpse of the popular twin pandas that are set to return to China next month, worried if or when they would get to see their ...

China will take back the remaining two pandas hosted by Japan next month, effectively halting a program that has symbolized friendship between the two countries since diplomatic ties were ...

TOKYO — Popular twin pandas at a Tokyo zoo are set to return to their homeland in China in late January, officials said Monday, leaving Japan without a panda for the first time in about half a century ...