Tuna fetches 74 mil. yen at possible final Tsukiji New Year's auction

Customers prepare to eat sushi topped with bluefin tuna slices at a restaurant operated by Kiyomura Corp. in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2017, after the company's president, Kiyoshi Kimura, purchased a 212-kilogram tuna for 74.2 million yen (around $632,000) or 350,000 yen per kilogram during a New Year's auction at the famed Tsukiji fish market. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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