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 Toyosu fish ...

Sushi and sashimi are more popular than ever, and tuna is a star player. These are the best cuts of the fish to use, ...

Kiyoshi Kimura, owner of the sushi chain, has a long history of expensive fish purchases ...

Main Dish: When we think of Japanese culinary culture, we obviously think of sushi, ramen and even the famous Okonomiyaki ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tsukiji Market is Japan's oldest and most famous fish market, and is best known for the unique meals visitors can have here. The ...

Sushizanmai operator bought the 243kg fish at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market on Jan 5. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...

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TOKYO — That's a REALLY big fish. This one weighed in at 535 pounds (243 kilograms). It sold for a record $3.2 million (510 million yen) on Monday at an enormous annual New Year's auction in Tokyo's ...

A bluefin tuna sold for $1.3 million at a predawn auction in Tokyo on Sunday morning, making it one of the most expensive tuna to be sold in the history of sushi. The 608-pound fish, equivalent in ...

Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co., left, cuts a bluefin tuna in front of his Sushi Zanmai restaurant near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. The bluefin tuna caught off ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's tuna market, the world's largest, is taking an outsized hit from the coronavirus pandemic, pressuring restaurants and wholesalers at Tokyo's sprawling Toyosu fish market to ...