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Bluefin Tuna Sells for $117,000 at Tokyo Auction

The owner of a chain of sushi restaurants paid ¥14 million ($117,000) for a 200-kilogram bluefin tuna at the first auction of the year at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market Tuesday. Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co., has won the year’s first bid for the fifth consecutive year. He told reporters the tuna “is in great form and should taste splendid.” The tuna was caught off Oma, Aomori prefecture, in northern Japan. Read the article here 23:17

A date with Tsukiji fish market’s bluefin tuna auction

To sleep or not to sleep? This was the question I was considering the night before a 3 a.m. rendezvous for a guided tour of Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market, the highlight of which was viewing the famous bluefin tuna auction. Considering the late hours I keep, it was really a no-brainer: sleep could wait. But what I later learned is that failing to wake up would have meant missing the final tuna auction open to visitors in 2015, and thus the main point of my first trip to the biggest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world. Read the article here 08:57

First Bluefin Tuna of the New Year Sold for $37,500 in Tokyo

A sushi restaurant chain owner paid ¥4.51 million ($37,500) for a 180 kilogram Bluefin tuna at the first auction of the year in Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market. Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co., has won the year’s first bid for four consecutive years since 2012. He told reporters Monday after his purchase that it was cheaper than he had expected thanks to a successful haul of tuna near the Tsugaru strait this year. Read the rest here 15:11