SHIRAHAMA, Japan, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) — Eimei, a large panda that has lived in Japan for 28 years, left western Japan’s Wakayama park alongside along with his twin daughters to fly again to China on Wednesday morning .
The 30-year-old male panda, alongside along with his eight-year-old Japan-born twin daughters Ouhin and Touhin, has left their present residence on the Adventure World, a theme park within the city of Shirahama in Wakayama prefecture.
Later within the day, the three large pandas have been scheduled to take a flight from the Kansai International Airport to a facility in southwest China’s Sichuan province.
Prior to their departure, a farewell ceremony was held on the park on Tuesday, the place about 2,000 guests mentioned goodbye to the three pandas.
Eimei, or Yong Ming in Chinese, is a 30-year-old male panda and the oldest large panda dwelling in Japan. Coming from China in 1994, it’s the father of 16 large panda cubs born on the Adventure World, setting the world file for being the oldest large panda to have efficiently bred in captivity.
Last yr, Eimei was appointed as a particular envoy for Sino-Japan friendship.
Thanks to the pleasant cooperation between the Adventure World and the analysis base of large panda breeding in China’s Sichuan province, Wakayama and Sichuan solid a prefecture-province friendship relationship in January 2022, mentioned Shuhei Kishimoto, governor of Wakayama prefecture.
Upon the pandas’ return, solely 4 large pandas will likely be dwelling on the Adventure World in Japan.