THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 5, 2022 at 19:07 JST
A hatless Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Corp., looks over the bluefin tuna before the start of the year's first auction on Jan. 5. (Wataru Sekita)
Sushi magnate Kiyoshi Kimura stunned foodies around the world in 2019 when he paid a record-high 333.6 million yen ($2.9 million) for a single bluefin tuna at the first auction of the year. [Read More]
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