Panda-monium: WWII, Diplomatic Relations, and Anime: Borealis Capps explores the unique circumstances that led to Japan's "Panda Boom" in the '70s, and how a gesture of soft diplomacy in the wake of WWII laid the groundwork for the Koala Boom a decade later. #anime#history#pandas

Panda-monium: World War II, Diplomatic Relations, and Anime

Arguably one of the most historically important and influential of these exchanges, though, was when China allowed a pair of giant pandas—Kang Kang and Lan Lan— to take up residency at the Ueno Zoo in 1972 as an act of panda diplomacy.