TOKYO: A Japanese sushi entrepreneur paid a record US$3.1mil (RM12.78mil) for a giant tuna at 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 333.6mil yen (RM12.78mil) for the enormous 278kg fish – an endangered species – that was caught off Japan’s northern coast.
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