Hello everyone,

One of Shirahama’s oldest pandas, Eimei, is about to leave Japan and go home to China. He is 30 years old, which would make him 90 in human years! He is a father to 16, which means he definately deserves a break. Two other pandas will head back to China with him, leaving four at Shirahama’s “Adventure World”.

Most of you have been there either with your family or on a school trip, so I am sure you have seen him. Hopefully he has a happy retirement and maybe some new pandas will come to Japan soon.