00:00Hundreds of Japanese panda lovers bid an emotional farewell to the country's last
00:05two giant pandas, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei. This as they left Tokyo's Ueno Zoo for China
00:10on Tuesday, January 27. The departure of the four-year-old twins for a breeding
00:15facility in China leaves Japan with no giant pandas for the first time in more than five decades.
00:20While the pandas' return to China had long been planned, their departure has been widely seen as
00:25strained China-Japan ties in recent months. In November, Japanese Prime Minister
00:30Sanaita Kaichi said a hypothetical Chinese attack on Taiwan could bring about a Japanese
00:35military response, triggering a furious response from Beijing, which views the democratically
00:39governed island as a war.
00:40China has long practiced so-called panda diplomacy, loaning
00:45pandas to its allies, though it has sometimes taken them back to express displeasure.
00:49Giant pandas
00:50pandas typically returned home after the loan agreement ends.
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