TOKYO DeForest Buckner Youth Jersey , June 13 (Xinhua) -- A Japanese expert said on Tuesday that the giant panda cub born recently at a zoo in central Tokyo is expected to bring a 26.7 billion yen (242 million U.S. dollars) economic effect to the city, local media reported.

Katsuhiro Miyamoto, professor emeritus of theoretical economics at Kansai University in Osaka prefecture, said that the giant panda cub born Monday will bring as big an impact as "a professional baseball team winning a title."

He suggested that the new panda cub could attract some 5,657,000 people to the zoo in fiscal 2017, up over 1.8 million from the previous year, by drawing analogy to the increased visitor rates at the zoo in 1972 when giant pandas were exhibited in Japan for the first time.

In addition to the increased admission fees and spendings of visitors to the zoo, the new panda cub would also boost the income of employees at relevant facilities, according to the professor.

Eleven-year-old giant panda "Fairy" (Japanese name Shin Shin) at the Ueno Zoological Gardens in central Tokyo gave birth to a cub on Monday, five years after her first cub was found dead just days after it was born.

Officials from the zoo said on Tuesday that the cub appeared to be in good health, though the zoo has not found out about its sex or exact weight yet, as it has been held continuously by its mother.

They also said that the zoo will be monitoring the health of the cub around the clock for the moment with the help of an expert from China.

Fairy and her mate Billy (Japanese name Ri Ri) have been firm favorites at the zoo since their arrival on loan from China in February 2011.

Through natural mating and not artificial insemination, the pair had a cub in 2012, marking the first birth at the zoo in 24 years.

The birth brought widespread delight around the nation, although hearts were soon broken as the cub died from pneumonia just six days after it was born.

Fairy in 2013 displayed signs of being pregnant, zoo officials said, but it turned out to be a false alarm.

The pair were seen mating in late February and thereafter the female panda had been showing signs of pregnancy such as a loss of appetite and lethargy, and was withdrawn from public view, the zoo said.

The latest birth has brought cheers from around the nation and beyond.

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Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant announced Friday on Facebook that he will make his season debut Sunday against the Toronto Raptors. Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni is excited about Bryant's return, but hopes his players aren't so excited that they are playing in awe of him.

"A lot of times they will stand around and watch him," D'Antoni said at the Lakers' shootaround Friday for a game against the Sacramento Kings. "We have been playing a certain way so we have to guard against that."

The Lakers were expected to struggle without Bryant, but have conjured a surprising 9-9 record. Bryant, 35, averaged 27.3 points per game last season before suffering a season-ending Achilles tendon injury on April 12 against the Golden State Warriors. The Lakers have used Steve Blake and Jodie Meeks at shooting guard in Bryant's absence.

The Lakers currently have practice scheduled for Saturday in Los Angeles. D'Antoni doesn't sound like he will be holding Bryant back upon return.

"What he brings mostly is one of the best players in the game and down in the fourth quarter you're not searching what you're doing, just his overall ability to be able to play well," D'Antoni said. "He will get guys to load up on him. He's carrying the wagon, let's everybody jump on it …."

Meanwhile, injured Lakers guard Steve Nash took more of a wait-and-see approach.

"It should be a slow progression," said Nash, who has been out since Nov. 10 with a nerve irritation in his back. "The most important thing is he hasn't had any setbacks."

Nash also took a measured approach on how good the Lakers can be once they're fully healthy.

"A lot of that depends on health. It also depends on the chemistry we can find," Nash said. "As we learned last year that it's not something you can make your own equation for and say one plus one equals two and we should be this. It's something that takes time and there is a lot of variables."

Nash is pleased to have no setbacks while practicing recently, but said he was uncertain when he'd return to play in games. He had hoped to return tonight against the Kings.

"The idea is not rush back and have the whole season," Nash said. "That will give me a chance to have some stability and play the better part of the rest of the season."

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