THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 12, 2022 at 17:25 JST
Visitors flock to a souvenir shop near the giant panda enclosure at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo on Jan. 12. (Kotaro Ebara)
Anticipated pandemonium over the debut of giant panda twins at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo was averted with a decision to initially put the animals on limited public display as a precaution against the spread of the surging Omicron variant of novel coronavirus. [Read More]
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