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Women pick tea shoots at a tea farm in the Shizuoka Prefecture city of Shimada. The first tea of the season is currently picked in the greenhouse, which maintains a temperature of at 28 degrees Celsius -- about a month earlier than tea picking at open-air farms. (Mainichi)

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