Arata Yamamoto has been an NBC News producer in Tokyo since 1993.
TOKYO — A bluefin tuna sold for more than $1.3 million at an annual fish auction in Tokyo, in what organizers said was the second-highest bid since the event began in 1999. The 608-pound bluefin tuna, which is about the size and weight of a motorcycle, was purchased for 207 million yen at the new year auction at the Toyosu market, the main fish market in Tokyo, by seafood wholesaler Yamayuki and Michelin-starred sushi chain operator Onodera Group.
“The first tuna is meant to bring good fortune,” Shinji Nagao, president of the Onodera Group, told reporters at the market right after the auction. “Our hope is that by eating this tuna everyone will have a good year.” According to local media, the highest-ever bid at the yearly auction was 333.6 million yen in 2019, a few months after the famed Tsukiji Market moved to Toyosu. It was paid by Kiyoshi Kimura, the head of another chain of sushi restaurants who is known as the “Tuna King” of Japan.
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