Shipments of square water watermelons begin in Zentsuji

ZENTSUJI, Japan - Farmers decorate square watermelons with ribbons before shipping them from an agricultural cooperative in Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, on June 17. The 18-centimeter-square watermelons are priced at 10,000 yen each. Some 450 to 500 watermelons will be shipped to department stores and other places in Tokyo and Osaka -- for display rather than for eating. About 50 of them will be shipped to Canada. The square watermelons were devised to save space in refrigerators.

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