Japan will be without a panda for the first time in 50 years with twins to leave Tokyo zoo

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Thousands of people queued Tuesday at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoological Gardens, a day after officials announced that its popular twin pandas will return to their homeland in China next month. Their departure will leave Japan without a panda for the first time in about half a century. (AP video by Ayaka McGill)

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