Tag: Kiyoshi Kimura

Japan’s ‘Tuna King’ wins annual auction for $636,000

  TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — 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). The head of the Sushizanmai chain is now the proud — if temporary — owner of a 212-kilogram(467-pound) fish. At […]