This file photo shows giant pandas Xiao Xiao, right, and his twin sister Lei Lei at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo in April 2024. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Giant pandas from China have delighted ...

Giant pandas from China have delighted visitors to zoos in Japan for more than 50 years, but fans are now anxious that the star attractions may disappear altogether amid an intensifying diplomatic row ...

Giant panda Fu Wa is pictured at the Mianyang base of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP) in Mianyang city, Southwest China's Sichuan province, Dec 29, 2025.

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief and was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn ...