Return of the Pandas: China Welcomes Back Four Pandas from Japan

Thousands of Japanese greeted the four pandas who will return on Sunday in China this week. in a park in the Wakayama region in the west of the country to greet the animals, the other three pandas.

In Tokyo, only 2,600 people were last able to see Xiang Xiang, the first baby panda at the zoo since 1988, after their names were drawn at random, but that didn’t stop others from coming to the park. “I wanted to breathe the same air (…) Even though I can’t see her, I’m happy because I know she’s here,” Mari Asai told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. Another visitor said in tears to a media local who wanted to be closer to the five-year-old panda.

The Tokyo Shimbun newspaper, quoting a zoo official, reported that Ueno receives calls and emails every day from panda lovers asking her to hold Xiangxiang.

The panda had to be sent in China in 2021, but his trip has been postponed several times due to travel restrictions due to the pandemic.

In Wakayama, visitors flocked to greet Emi, who has become the largest of her kind in the world, who gives birth to a panda cub in 2020 at the age of 28, which is equivalent to an eighty-year-old human , and her twin daughters.

“I’m sad because it’s coming back in China,” a woman in her 70s told public broadcaster NHK.

These black and white mammals are very popular in around the world, and China lends them as part of its “panda diplomacy” program to strengthen foreign relations.

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