By Colleen Howe, Reuters
Photo: Kazuki Wakasugi / The Yomiuri Shimbun via AFP
Giant pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei have arrived in Sichuan province, China's panda research base said in a social media post, leaving Japan without pandas for the first time since 1972 at a moment of tense relations between the two nations.
Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei arrived at Chengdu's Tianfu International Airport on 1am on Wednesday, a WeChat post by the China Conservation and Research Centre
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