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A Densuke watermelon, a specialty of Toma town in Hokkaido, is pictured after fetching 700,000 yen ($4,350) at the season's first auction at a wholesale market in the nearby city of Asahikawa on the northernmost main island of Japan on June 19, 2026.

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