Japan is about to say goodbye to its last pandas, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei. These twin pandas have been a big hit at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. But they are going back to China soon. Their last day for public viewing is January 25th. After that, Japan won't have any pandas for the first time in over 50 years.
Japan recently shot back at China after a letter from China to the United Nations accused Japan of threatening to use force over Taiwan. Japan's ambassador to the UN, Kazuyuki Yamazaki, called the letter "inconsistent with the facts and unsubstantiated. " This all started when China's UN ambassador,
In the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, a senseless act of violence shook the community when a 10-year-old Japanese student was stabbed on his way to school. The incident occurred on the anniversary of the 1931 Mukden incident, a date that still bears the scars of Japan's occupation of Manchuria.
