(260127) — TOKYO, Jan. 27, 2026 (Xinhua) — The twin pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei depart the Ueno Zoological Gardens by truck in Tokyo, Japan, on Jan. 27, 2026. The final remaining two big pandas in Japan on Tuesday left Tokyo’s Ueno zoo for his or her return to China, marking the primary time that there might be no pandas in Japan in round half a century.
The twin pandas, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, had been transported by truck from the Ueno Zoological Gardens to Narita Airport, the place they had been scheduled to board a flight again to China. (Xinhua/Jia Haocheng)