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Strawberry Fields
Tochigi city, Tochigi Pref.

FOOD 2015 30 minutes Episode(s): 1 english Japanese
[Food of Japan Season 1]

Tochigi is famous for having the largest production of strawberries in Japan for 47 consecutive years. Discovering how the best seller "Tochi Otome" and the new "Sky Berry" were developed, the camera follows its researchers and how they established the production processes to produce those sweet strawberries.

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