The babies arrived in the early hours of Wednesday, June 23, to parents Shin Shin and Ri Ri Kate Hogan was Director of Digital Specials and Features at PEOPLE. She started at PEOPLE in 2008, leaving ...

Just a month before the start of the Olympic Games in Japan, the country is celebrating another exciting occasion. A giant panda has given birth to tiny twin cubs at a Japanese zoo — a joyous moment ...

TOKYO (AP) — Thousands of people flocked to Tokyo's Ueno zoo to have a last glimpse of the popular twin pandas that are set to return to China next month, worried if or when they get to see their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four-year-old female giant panda Lei Lei eats bamboo at Ueno Zoo during the last viewing day before the planned return of twin ...

Many Tokyoites have fond memories of Ueno Zoo’s iconic suspended monorail, which linked the East and West sections of the zoo ...

, with many visitors coming to bid them farewell. A 45-year-old woman from Tokyo’s Taito Ward, where Ueno Zoological Gardens is located, said she had visited regularly to see the pandas, describing ...