People stood in line for hours on Sunday at Ueno zoo in Tokyo to say farewell to Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, two pandas set to return to China amid strained relations between Japan and China. Their departure leaves Japan without any pandas for the first time since 1972. The World’s Marco Werman has more.
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