Osaka farmer grows rugby ball-shaped cabbage

OSAKA, Japan - Kosuke Matsubara, 69, poses for a photograph Nov. 14 with rugby ball-shaped cabbages he has grown at his farm located near a rugby ground in Higashi-Osaka, Osaka Prefecture. Matsubara has spent eight years cultivating the cabbages, which are 30 centimeters high and weigh 1 kilogram on average. (Kyodo)

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