“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 ...

including Japan, France, Britain and Germany, over the next decade. When the panda population dwindled in the 1980s, Beijing stopped gifting pandas but turned to more lucrative short-term leasing ...

SKELETON PANDA SEA SQUIRT: A new species of sea creature that has a distinctive skeleton-like body structure and black spots that resemble a panda has been discovered in Japan.

Most titles can be found in bookstores or libraries throughout Japan. "Panda Sento," written and illustrated by Tupera Tupera (Published by Ehonkan Publishers Inc., 2013) Story outline This is a ...

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 ...

Nepali police officer Jiwan Subba still feels pangs of regret decades after he bludgeoned a strange creature he found wandering in his barn, not realizing it was an endangered red panda.