Tuna sells for 56.49 mil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - A 269-kilogram bluefin tuna is cut up at a sushi bar in Tokyo's Tsukiji area on Jan. 5, 2012, after its operator bought the fish earlier in the day for a record 56.49 million yen, or 210,000 yen per kilogram, at the first auction of the year at the Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market in Tsukiji. (Kyodo)

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