Thousands of Japanese fans, some wiping away tears, bid farewell to a beloved Japanese-born giant panda that made her final public appearance Sunday before flying to her home country, China. The ...

The “panda-like” pattern distinguishes the crustacean ... The animals were collected in intertidal waters on the southeastern coast of Japan, an area with cobble and sand bottom.

Giant panda Fuhin is given heart-shaped ice blocks as a Valentine's Day gift at the Adventure World zoo and amusement park in Shirahama in the western Japan prefecture of Wakayama on Feb. 14, 2025.

“Adorable,” she said, and played the video twice. Like elsewhere in the world, pandas are hugely popular in Japan. Before deciding their names, Tokyo officials even set up a name selection ...

This photo taken in February 2023 shows Eimei, a giant panda who was repatriated to China from Japan later that year, at Adventure World in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture. (Kyodo) SHANGHAI (Kyodo ...

Zookeeper Zhao Lanlan is in charge of Xiang Xiang's care. She said it took the Japan-born panda some time to settle in. "Xiang Xiang has a slightly timid personality. She needed time to adapt to ...

Heart-shaped ice sculptures were among the Valentine's Day gifts presented to a giant panda in Japan. Fuhin, a four-year-old female, lives at a zoo in the western Japanese town of Shirahama ...

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China’s so-called panda bonds – yuan-denominated debt securities issued by offshore companies operating on the mainland – have exceeded Japan’s samurai-bond market in size on the back of ...