Panda fans flock to Tokyo zoo as Japan will be without a panda for the first time since 1972

Описание: Two pandas at a Tokyo Zoo will be returned to China in January, potentially leaving Japan without the beloved animals for the first time in half a century.

Japan currently has only two pandas, Lei Lei and Xiao Xiao, at Tokyo's Zoological Gardens in the Ueno neighborhood.

Thousands of desperate fans flocked to Ueno Zoo on Tuesday to catch a final glimpse, many bidding the beloved twins a tearful farewell.

Loaned out as part of China's "panda diplomacy" program, the distinctive black-and-white animals have symbolized friendship between Beijing and Tokyo since the normalization of diplomatic ties in 1972.

The Ueno zoo has long been the beneficiary of panda diplomacy, having cooperated with facilities in China and the United States to successfully breed giant pandas.

Lei Lei and Xiao Xiao were delivered in 2021 by their mother Shin Shin, who arrived in 2011 and was returned to China last year.

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