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Tuna sells for $1.8 million in first Tokyo auction of 2020, second highest ever

Published 01/05/2020, 02:43 AM
Updated 01/05/2020, 02:46 AM
Tuna sells for $1.8 million in first Tokyo auction of 2020, second highest ever

TOKYO (Reuters) - A bluefin tuna sold for 193.2 million yen ($1.8 million) in the first auction of the new year at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market, the second highest price on record, NHK broadcaster reported.

The tuna was caught off northern Aomori Prefecture and weighed 276 kilograms (608 lbs), according to NHK, which translates into a price of about 700,000 yen per kilogram.

The successful bidder was Kiyoshi Kimura, the head of the company that runs sushi restaurant chain "Sushizanmai," NHK said.

Last year Kimura paid a record 333.6 million yen for a tuna at the auction, exceeding his previous record price in 2013.

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I like my sushi well done
These people are crazy... just buy a small salmon and it will taste just as good raw.
Last year's auction the first bluefin went for more than 3 million $, so if anything this was cheap, hah.
Why is it so expensive?
It's a PR and symbolic thing. Winning the year's first auction is worth a lot in publicity, so "normal" to have such prices in just this case.
Cheap money produces these fenomena. Japan’s economy doesn’t incentivizes for savings, so better of to spend all this money forna good dose of PR instead
in my country 200gr tuna just 1,5€
Big tuna more expensive
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