SHIZUOKA, Japan - A 1-kilogram quantity of hand-rolled new Japanese tea leaves picked in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, fetched a record 1.09 million yen ($10,200) on Wednesday in the season's first auction at a local market.
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