The Tokyo metropolitan government said Tuesday it has agreed with Chinese authorities to push back through next June the return of a popular female offspring of a giant panda couple on loan from China due to difficulties with transportation amid the coronavirus pandemic.Xiang Xiang, born in June 2017 at the Ueno Zoological Gardens, was originally scheduled to leave Japan when she turned 2, but the two sides agreed to extend the loan period through the end of 2020 due to her popularity. Her return has since been repeatedly postponed because of the pandemic.Last December, the two sides also a…READ FULL ARTICLE
