'World's smallest' melon cultivated in Japan's Inland Sea

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Yoshikiyo Kawai, chairman of the tourism association of Megi Island in Kagawa Prefecture, shows off what are said to be the world's smallest melons, cultivated by the inhabitants of the Seto Inland Sea island, in Takamatsu on Sept. 4, 2009.

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