A baby panda Xiang Xiang, born from her mother panda Shin Shin (L) on June 12, 2017, is seen during a press preview ahead of the public debut at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo, Japan December 18, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato
TOKYO (Reuters) - The wife of China's ambassador to Japan and the governor of Tokyo turned out on Monday to help mark this week's public debut of Japan's popular panda cub, who turned six-months-old this month.
The healthy female cub was born in June, five years after her mother, Shin Shin, lost another cub within days of its birth. It has been nearly three decades since a baby panda at the capital’s Ueno Zoo has survived this long.
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