Japan’s ‘Tuna King’ wins auction with $636,000 bid

By Agence France-Presse

Jan 06, 2017 12:22 am

TOKYO: Japan’s self-styled “Tuna King” has done it again—paying more than $600,000 for a single fish.

Sushi entrepreneur Kiyoshi Kimura paid top price at the first auction of the new year at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market on Thursday, bagging a prized bluefin tuna for an eye-watering 74.2 million yen ($636,000).

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