TOKYO, Jan 5 (dpa): A huge bluefin tuna was sold for 20.8 million yen (US$202,000) in Tokyo on Tuesday in the first auction of this year at the city's main fish market.
It was far lower than the highest price of last year - 193 million yen - and the first auction came while Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike repeatedly urged its residents to refrain from non-essential and non-urgent outings in order to curb coronavirus infections.
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