Kiyomura Corp. owner Kiyoshi Kimura (left) stands near the bluefin tuna which he made a wining bid at the annual New Year auction, in Tokyo on January 5, 2019. -AP
TOKYO (AFP): A Japanese sushi entrepreneur paid a record $3.1mil (RM12.8mil) for a giant tuna on Saturday as Tokyo's new fish market, which replaced the world-famous Tsukiji late last year, held its first pre-dawn New Year's auction.
Bidding stopped at a whopping 333.6 million yen for the enormous 278kg fish - an endangered species - that was caught off Japan's northern coast.
