Think grapes are expensive at your local grocery store? They’ve got nothing on this bunch. A bunch of about 30 grapes in Japan sold for 1.1 million yen, or $10,900, on Thursday, the AFP reported. That ...

A new variety of premium grapes debuted in Japan on Monday, with a single bunch fetching as much as 100,000 yen, or $910. A Japanese hotel manager paid that amount, or about $26 per grape, for a 1 1/2 ...

KANZAWA, Japan - A bunch of 24 Ruby Roman grapes was sold Tuesday for 1.2 million yen -- the equivalent of about $11,000 U.S. dollars, or $450 per grape -- at the first auction of the season in the ...

A bunch of Ruby Roman grapes sold at an auction house in Japan on Thursday for 1.1 million yen—almost $11,000. With just 30 grapes in a bunch, that equates to roughly $350 per grape, according to the ...

Okayama scientists have crafted a new wine grape, Muscat Shiragai, merging the wild Shiraga and Muscat of Alexandria. The variety is part of a larger collaboration between academia, industry, and ...

UEDA, Japan (AFP): The variety of juicy grape that Yuki Nakamura is harvesting as the sun rises over his farm took scientists 33 years to develop and can sell for $100 a bunch in Tokyo department ...

A new variety of premium grapes debuted in Japan on Monday, with a single bunch fetching as much as 100,000 yen ($910). A Japanese hotel manager paid that amount, or about 2,860 yen ($26) per grape, ...

In the United States, grapes are a pretty common and cheap fruit. In Japan, however, grapes are seen as a status symbol. This provides one explanation as to why one bunch of grapes sold at an auction ...