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AP Television Mountainside, Kamiakizu, Wakayama Prefecture, November 20th, 2010 1. Various of Satsumas growing on mountain side. 2. Long, Satsuma tree foreground, Kii mountains and Pacific ocean background. AP Television Kamiakizu, Wakayama Prefecture, December 7th, 2010 3. Various of satsuma producers harvesting crop. 4. Set up shot of Hara Takuo. 5. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Hara Takuo, Satsuma Producer: "(Wakayama) prefecture is the biggest producer of satsuma oranges in Japan." AP Television Tanabe city, Wakayama Prefecture December 7th, 2010 6. Various of satsuma on conveyor belt on which they are graded according to quality. 7. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Hamada Hideo Manager, JA Warehouse: "We process 6,000 tons of satsumas during the season." 8. Zoom in on machines that measure the sweetness and acidity of the satsumas through laser technology. 9. Various of satsumas, graded according to size, sweetness, colour and appearance travelling down lanes that will take them to the appropriate outlets where they are boxed. 10. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Hamada Hideo, Manager, JA Warehouse: "In a top quality satsuma acidity should measure 0.8 and sweetness should have a Brix measurement (sugar content) of 12 degrees or above." AP Television Kamiakizu, Wakayama Prefecture, November 20th, 2010 11. Long of Hara family orange groves on a fairly flat section of land. 12. Pan of satsuma trees growing on steep mountain terraces. AP Television Kamiakizu, Wakayama Prefecture, December 7th, 2010 13. Various of Hara Takuo transporting harvested satsuma up the steep slope via mono track. 14. Various of Hara Takuo sorting and weighing harvested satsuma with his mother. AP Television Kamiakizu, Wakayama Prefecture, November 20th, 2010 15. Close up of Yuzu a Japanese citrus fruit and one of the 40 varieties of citrus fruit that the Hara family grow besides satsumas. 16. Close up of a Japanese citrus fruit known as Dekopon 17. Close up of a Japanese citrus fruit known as Ponkan. AP Television Kamiakizu, Wakayama Prefecture, December 7th, 2010 18. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Hara Takuo, Satsuma Producer: "The land undulates, so what we try to do is match each variety of fruit to that particular piece of land. The land area itself is extremely small so we grow a wide range of fruit that can be harvested at different times of the year, supplying a small number of customers." 19. Pull focus on an unshu mikan, a Japanese citrus fruit with a pink flesh that tastes a little like a sweet grapefruit. 20. Wide of a citrus fruit called Bushukan or Buddha's hand hanging from tree. 21. Close up of Bushukan. (The fruit is not usually eaten but has very pleasant fragrance and is often used as a decoration in the Japanese tea ceremony.) 22. Close up of Dekopon, a Japanese citrus fruit. 23. Close up of Sanbokan, Japanese citrus fruit. 24. Close up of lemons. AP Television Kamiyakizu Farmers Market, Kamiakizu, December 7th, 2010 25. Exterior of Farmers Market. 26. Various of Satsuma juice being made at market. 27. Close up of grade 1 satsumas. 28. Various of producer selling her satsumas to local residents. AP Television Hara family store house, Kamiakizu, Wakayama Prefecture, December 7th, 2010 29. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Hara Takuo, Satsuma Producer: "We have to deal with Mukade (poisonous centipedes) poisonous snakes, various kinds of insects and bees. It's sometimes tough but the way I look at it is that we are living together with these creatures in an area that has delicious fruit." AP Television Mountainside, Kamiakizu, Wakayama Prefecture, November 20th, 2010 30. Various of Hara San's satsuma growing on the mountainside. LEAD IN: STORYLINE: Hara is characteristically stoical. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/d63eedea8123e35b53119b5e9f9ed929 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork