Japanese watermelon sells for £3,100
Friday, June 6th, 2008A Japanese man took his support for the country's fruit growers to extraordinary lengths today when he paid a record 650,000 yen (£3,100) for a single watermelon on the opening day of the annual season. The black Densuke watermelon, grown only on Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, fetched the highest-ever price ...