Season's first auction of Yubari melons

Season's first auction of Yubari melons

A pair of melons produced in Yubari in Hokkaido fetches 120,000 yen ($1,114) in the season's first auction in Sapporo, the capital of the northern Japan prefecture, on May 25, 2020. The price was only 2.4 percent of that paid the previous year, believed attributable to the economic impact of the outbreak of the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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