Bluefin tuna fetches 4.5 mil. yen at Tokyo auction

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Tokyo-based sushi restaurant chain operator Kiyomura Co., poses for photos with a 180-kg bluefin tuna for which he made a successful bid for 4.51 million yen, or 25,000 yen per kilogram, in the first tuna auction of 2015 at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2015. (Kyodo)

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