TOKYO – A giant bluefin tuna fetched 16.3 million yen ($177,000) in an auction Tuesday at the world's largest wholesale fish market in Japan. The 513-pound fish was the priciest since 2001 when a ...

A bluefin tuna was sold for about 16.88 million yen (approximately $146K) at Tokyo’s annual New Year tuna auction in Japan. The 211 kgs. (approximately 465 lbs.) tuna was caught off Japan’s northern ...

A Japanese businessman dropped a whopping $1.8 million on a massive tuna fish at a New Year's auction at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo on Sunday, according to CNN. Kiyoshi Kimura, the so-called ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Self-proclaimed Japanese “Tuna King” and ...

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A sushi chef holds up the head of a bluefin tuna at a restaurant in Tsukji market area in Tokyo after it was sold at the first auction of the year at the Toyosu fish market on Jan. 5, 2020. (AP ...

One fish, two fish, red fish… million-dollar tuna fish. Japanese businessman Kiyoshi Kimura, who has dubbed himself the “Tuna King,” purchased a 608-pound fish for $1.8 million at a Sunday auction.

(CNN) -- Self-proclaimed Japanese "Tuna King" and sushi restaurant owner Kiyoshi Kimura paid a record $3.1 million (333.6 million yen) for a giant bluefin tuna at the New Year's auction at Tokyo's ...