People flocked to the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo to say goodbye to the last two giant pandas in Japan. Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei will return to China.

Japan's Ueno Zoo is returning the country's last two pandas to China at a time when relationships between the two countries have hit an all time low.

The last remaining giant pandas in Japan, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei of Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, departed for China on Tuesday afternoon in a move that will leave Japan with no giant pandas for the first time in about half a century.

With the PyArrow library installed, pandas 3.0 interprets string columns automatically as the str data type instead of NumPy- object. This is intended to improve performance and more efficient assignment of Python objects. The following example shows what the new code might look like:

CNBC's China reporter Elaine Yu chats with Squawk Box Asia anchors Martin Soong and Chery Kang about the so-called "panda diplomacy", as Japan is due to return two pandas to China amid rising tensions.

Fans gathered at a Tokyo zoo on Sunday to bid farewell to the last two giant pandas in the country, long a symbol of Sino-Japanese fr

Thousands gathered at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo to bid farewell to giant pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, marking Japan's first panda-less moment since 1972. The exchange emphasizes strained China-Japan relations,

The twin giant pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei currently at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo that are set to be returned to China marked their final day of public viewing on Sunday. Access was limited to visitors selected through an advance lottery,