TOKYO: A celebrated Japanese sushi businessman, nicknamed "Tuna King", paid US$1.8mil for a giant tuna at the celebrated New Year's auction at Tokyo's main fish market on Sunday (Jan 5).
Kiyoshi Kimura, who runs a successful sushi restaurant chain, paid 193 million yen (US$1.8mil) to purchase a 276kg (608-pound) bluefin tuna, caught off the Aomori region in northern Japan.
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