A successful bidder (C) shows a single pair of Yubari melons with a price of 1.5 million yen (12,400 USD) after this year’s first auction at the Sapporo Central Wholesale Market in Sapporo, Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido on May 22, 2015. The winning bid was placed by a local fruit wholesaler for the first Yubari melons to go under the hammer this year. AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS JAPAN OUT
Pair of Japanese melons
