ASAHIKAWA, Japan - A premium watermelon with a dark green rind grown in Hokkaido, northern Japan, fetched 220,000 yen ($2,050) Monday in the year's first auction, less than one-third the record price marked last year amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.
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