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JAPAN -- Most of us know watermelons as round shaped. But now farmers in Japan are changing it up. They are growing the fruit to be square shaped. The watermelons are created by placing them in a ...

JAPAN (CBS) — Outlandish square watermelon, among other uniquely-shaped fruits, are gaining popularity in Japan. The watermelons are placed inside a square crate so as they grow, the melons are formed ...

TOKYO: Japanese consumers are used to paying through the nose for fruit, and now that summer's here there's another way for them to empty their wallets: cube and heart-shaped watermelons. But this ...

Farmers in Japan's southwestern island of Shikoku surprised consumers on Thursday by unveiling unique watermelons to the market. The watermelons they produced are not round -- but square. Some twenty ...

ZENTSUJI, Japan (CNN) -- Japan appears to have cornered the market on square-shaped fruit. Farmers in the southern Japanese town of Zentsuji have figured out how to grow their watermelons so they turn ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. A few years back, there was a report that wealthy people in Russia were paying over $800 for Japanese square watermelons. In Russia, that’s supposedly ...

In Japan, the sight of a square watermelon doesn’t stop shoppers in their tracks. They first appeared in 2001, the brainchild of a farmer who’d just had it with their rolling around in the fridge and ...

Festival goers went gaga for the square watermelons of agricultural firm Seedcompany during the agri-trade fair of the Pakwan Festival, an ongoing event in Bani town in Pangasinan that started on ...

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JAPAN (WLS) -- Most of us know watermelons as round shaped. But now farmers in Japan are changing it up. They are growing the fruit to be square shaped. The watermelons are created by placing them in ...