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Nagasaki: Potato Harvesting Event Connects Villagers to 19th-Century French Priest

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The Yomiuri Shimbun

21:34 JST, December 8, 2025

NAGASAKI — Sweet potatoes that were first cultivated over 100 years ago by a French missionary have been harvested in terraced fields in a village northwest of Nagasaki City.

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