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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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Yuta Hirukawa / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer

'Local' specialties on the move due to global warming

(Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

As a fruit normally found in the subtropics grows in Tokyo, peaches are cultivated in Aomori, the prefecture known as "the apple kingdom."

The country is seeing more and more of these unusual combinations as an offshoot of rising global temperatures. While some may regard it as a "blessing" of global warming, it is not all that simple in terms of the future of the nation's agriculture.

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