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Fans bid farewell to Japan’s only pandas
TOKYO: Panda lovers in Tokyo said goodbye on Sunday to a hugely popular pair of the bears that are set to return to China, leaving Japan without the beloved animals for the first time in half a century. 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. Some visitors at Ueno Zoological Gardens were left teary-eyed as they watched Japan’s only two pandas Lei Lei and Xiao Xiao munch on bamboo.
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theguardian.com
Black and white and sent back over: end of panda diplomacy as Japan returns bears to China
The departure of pandas will leave legions of Japanese admirers bereft, but it is also symptomatic of a dramatic deterioration in China-Japan relations
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faz.net
Tokio: Die letzten Riesenpandas müssen zurück nach China
Seit 1972 verleiht China Riesenpandas nach Japan. Jetzt soll die Panda-Diplomatie vorbei sein – und die beiden letzten Riesenpandas den Zoo in Tokio verlassen. Die Menschen stehen…
