The Economist

For the first time in 54 years there are no pandas in Japan

O n January 25th tearful crowds bade farewell to Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, twin pandas at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo. Some 110,000 people ...

Japan’s last pair of pandas have arrived back in China

Japan's last pair of pandas have returned to China, leaving Japan without the lovable bears for the first time in half a century. The bears are heading back as diplomatic ...

Sayonara to Japan's giant pandas

The last two of Japan's giant pandas on loan from China arrived home on Wednesday. Amid frosty bilateral relations, will this ...

Analysis: Parsing Beijing's panda diplomacy after Ueno Zoo recall

Tokyo's Ueno Zoo lost two of its stars after Beijing called the pandas back to China. NHK World's Yoshida Mayu looks into China's "panda diplomacy" and the odds of Japan getting any pandas back.