Sapporo department store buys 2 melons for 300,000 yen

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows two brand-name Yubari melons bought by a department store in Sapporo, Hokkaido, for 300,000 yen at a local wholesale food market on May 16. The department store plans to auction the fruit to its customers, with the proceeds from the sale to be donated to welfare projects of the Sapporo city government.

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