TOKYO -- Four giant pandas in the western Japanese prefecture of Wakayama departed for China on Saturday.

Thousands of fans in Japan have bid an emotional farewell to four giant pandas. The pandas, a mother and her three daughters, ...

Their departure means that only two giant pandas remain in Japan. Both are at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoological Gardens and are also ...

Pandas are typically loaned for 10-15 years, to ensure genetic diversity and sustainable captive breeding. China's efforts have paid off, with wild panda populations having rebounded from 1,100 in the ...

Fans bid farewell to all four giant pandas at a zoo in the western Japanese prefecture of Wakayama as they left Saturday ...

4 pandas at Wakayama zoo will be returned to China in June THE ASAHI SHIMBUN. April 25, 2025 at 16:04 JST. ... Officials of the theme park which includes a zoo, aquarium and amusement park, ...

Rauhin, 24, and her three daughters — 8-year-old Yuihin, 6-year-old Saihin and 4-year-old Fuhin — will be transferred to China on Saturday.

WAKAYAMA (Kyodo) -- All four giant pandas on loan to a western Japan zoo left for China on Saturday, ahead of the expiration of their lease agreement.

Shirahama, Wakayama Pref., June 28 (Jiji Press)--All four giant pandas at a zoo in the Adventure World amusement park in the town of Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, left for China ...

Around 3,000 visitors flocked to the Adventure World theme park to get a last glimpse of ... Imazu said the departure of the four pandas marks the end of the zoo's 30-year joint project with China.

Around 3,000 visitors flocked to the Adventure World theme park to get a last glimpse of ... Imazu said the departure of the four pandas marks the end of the zoo’s 30-year joint project with China.

Thousands of fans in Japan have bid an emotional farewell to four giant pandas. The pandas, a mother and her three daughters, made their final public appearance on Friday at Adventure World theme ...