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Year's 1st kumquat auction in Japan

The year's first auction of fully ripe "Tama-tama" luxury kumquats is held on Jan. 15. 2026, at a wholesale market in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan.

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Year's 1st kumquat auction in Japan

The year's first auction of fully ripe "Tama-tama" luxury kumquats is held on Jan. 15. 2026, at a wholesale market in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan.

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Year's 1st kumquat auction in Japan

The year's first auction of fully ripe "Tama-tama" luxury kumquats is held on Jan. 15. 2026, at a wholesale market in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 5 Kyodo - Video taken on Jan. 5, 2026, shows a 243-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Oma in Aomori Prefecture that fetched 510.3 million yen ($3.25 million) at the year's first tuna auction at Tokyo's Toyosu market. (Kyodo)

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Tuna auction at Wakayama wholesale market

NACHIKATSUURA, Japan, Jan. 4 Kyodo - Tuna are lined up for the year's first auction at a regional wholesale market in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 4, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Year's 1st pufferfish auction in western Japan

The year's first "fugu" pufferfish auction is held at a market in Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, in the early hours of Jan. 4, 2026.

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Year's 1st pufferfish auction in western Japan

The year's first "fugu" pufferfish auction is held at a market in Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, in the early hours of Jan. 4, 2026.

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Year's first cherry auction in Yamagata Pref.

Photo taken on Jan. 5, 2026, shows Yamagata Prefecture-produced premium Sato Nishiki cherries that fetched 1.55 million yen ($9,870) per box at the year's first auction in Tendo, a city in the northeastern Japan prefecture.

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Year's first cherry auction in Yamagata Pref.

Photo taken on Jan. 5, 2026, shows Yamagata Prefecture-produced premium Sato Nishiki cherries that fetched 1.55 million yen ($9,870) per box at the year's first auction in Tendo, a city in the northeastern Japan prefecture.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

Photo taken on Jan. 5, 2026, shows a 243-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Oma in Aomori Prefecture that fetched 510.3 million yen ($3.25 million) at the year's first tuna auction at Tokyo's Toyosu market.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

Photo taken on Jan. 5, 2026, shows a 243-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Oma in Aomori Prefecture that fetched 510.3 million yen ($3.25 million) at the year's first tuna auction at Tokyo's Toyosu market.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

The year's first tuna auction is held at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2026.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

Tuna are lined up for the year's first auction at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2026.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

Tuna are lined up for the year's first auction at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2026.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

Tuna are lined up for the year's first auction at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2026.

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Luxury mushrooms from Noto fetch record price at auction

Luxury "Nototemari" shiitake mushrooms fetch a record price of 350,000 yen ($2,200) per bowl of six at this year's first auction in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, on Jan. 9, 2025. The Noto region, where the mushrooms are produced, experienced a powerful earthquake in January 2024 and record torrential rains in September.

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Luxury mushrooms from Noto fetch record price at auction

Luxury "Nototemari" shiitake mushrooms are displayed after fetching a record price of 350,000 yen ($2,200) per bowl of six at this year's first auction in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, on Jan. 9, 2025. The Noto region, where the mushrooms are produced, experienced a powerful earthquake in January 2024 and record torrential rains in September.

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Tuna auction at Wakayama wholesale market

NACHIKATSUURA, Japan, Jan. 4 Kyodo - Tuna are lined up for the year's first auction at a regional wholesale market in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 4, 2025. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 6 Kyodo - Video shows a bluefin tuna that fetched 207 million yen ($1.3 million) during the year's first auction at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2025. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Year's 1st pufferfish auction in western Japan

The year's first "fugu" pufferfish auction is held at a market in Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, in the early hours of Jan. 4, 2025.

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Year's 1st pufferfish auction in western Japan

The year's first "fugu" pufferfish auction is held at a market in Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, in the early hours of Jan. 4, 2025.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

Tuna are lined up for the year's first auction at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2025.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

Tuna are lined up for the year's first auction at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2025.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

Tuna are lined up for the year's first auction at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2025.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

Tuna are lined up for the year's first auction at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2025.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

Photo shows a bluefin tuna that fetched 207 million yen ($1.3 million) during the year's first auction at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2025.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

Photo shows a bluefin tuna that fetched 207 million yen ($1.3 million) during the year's first auction at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2025.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

Photo shows a bluefin tuna that fetched 207 million yen ($1.3 million) during the year's first auction at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2025.

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Tuna auction at Wakayama wholesale market

Tuna are lined up for the year's first auction at a regional wholesale market in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 4, 2025.

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Tuna auction at Wakayama wholesale market

Tuna are lined up for the year's first auction at a regional wholesale market in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 4, 2025.

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Tuna auction at Wakayama wholesale market

Tuna are lined up for the year's first auction at a regional wholesale market in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 4, 2025.

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Year's first puffer fish auction in western Japan

Fugu are sorted ahead of the season's first auction of the puffer fish at a market in Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, in the early hours of Sept. 26, 2024.

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Year's first puffer fish auction in western Japan

The season's first fugu auction is held at a market in Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, in the early hours of Sept. 26, 2024.

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Squid season starts in northern Japan

The year's first auction of Japanese flying squid is held at a wholesale fish market in Hakodate on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, on June 5, 2024. The total first-day catch of flying squid only came to 200 kilograms, far below 1 ton in the previous year.

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Pair of Hokkaido melons fetch 3 mil. yen at year's 1st auction

A pair of Yubari melons fetch 3 million yen ($23,550) in Sapporo, northern Japan, on May 26, 2022, at the year's first auction for the signature product of the Hokkaido city of Yubari.(Kyodo)

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Squid season starts in northern Japan

This season's first auction for Japanese flying squid is held at a wholesale fish market in Hakodate on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on June 3, 2023, fetching 3,800 yen ($27) per kilogram, up from last year's 2,100 yen.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

The year's first tuna auction is held at Tokyo's Toyosu market on Jan. 5, 2023. Video taken on Jan. 5, 2023, shows a 212-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Oma in Aomori Prefecture that fetched 36.04 million yen ($273,000) at the year's first tuna auction at Tokyo's Toyosu market.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

Photo taken on Jan. 5, 2023, shows a 212-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Oma in Aomori Prefecture that fetched 36.04 million yen ($273,000) at the year's first tuna auction at Tokyo's Toyosu market.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

The year's first tuna auction is held at Tokyo's Toyosu market on Jan. 5, 2023.

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

Photo taken on Jan. 5, 2023, shows tuna lined up for the year's first auction at Tokyo's Toyosu market.

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Year's first tuna auction in western Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 4, 2023, shows tuna lined up for the year's first auction at a market in Nachikatsuura in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan.

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Year's first tuna auction in western Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 4, 2023, shows tuna lined up for the year's first auction at a market in Nachikatsuura in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan.

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Year's 1st tuna auction at Tsukiji market

TOKYO, Japan - Wholesale dealers and purchasers check the conditions of tuna ahead of the year's first auction at the Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market, commonly known as Tsukiji market, in Tokyo early in the morning on Jan. 5, 2012. A 269-kilogram bluefin tuna from Oma, Aomori Prefecture, was sold for 56.49 million yen, or 210,000 yen per kg, shattering the previous record of 32.49 million yen, or 95,000 yen per kg.

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1st blowfish auction of 2015 held in western Japan

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A buyer and a broker negotiate a blowfish price with finger movements in a cloth bag at the Haedomari fish market in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 4, 2015, during the year's first auction of the fish.

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Hokkaido watermelon auctioned at 350,000 yen

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - A Densuke watermelon, a specialty of Hokkaido, is sold for 350,000 yen at this year's first auction in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on June 10, 2014. Around 70,000 Densuke watermelons will be shipped this summer at around 5,000 yen per piece.

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Miyazaki mangoes

MIYAZAKI, Japan - The year's first auction of mangoes under the brand of "Taiyo no Tamago" (Egg of the Sun) is held at the local central wholesale market in the city of Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 10, 2014. A pair of mangoes under the brand from Miyazaki Prefecture fetched 300,000 yen at the market the same day, marking a record high.

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Miyazaki mangoes

MIYAZAKI, Japan - The year's first auction of mangoes under the brand of "Taiyo no Tamago" (Egg of the Sun) is held at the local central wholesale market in the city of Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on April 10, 2014. A pair of mangoes under the brand from Miyazaki Prefecture fetched 300,000 yen at the market the same day, marking a record high.

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Bluefin tuna catch

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in January 2013 shows a bluefin tuna bought during the year's first auction at the Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market in Tokyo's Tsukiji district. The International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean has compiled a report calling for a cut in the Pacific bluefin tuna catch and other measures to improve stocks, sources close to the matter said on Aug. 6, 2013.

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Watermelon fetches 300,000 yen

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Photo shows a black-rind watermelon grown in Hokkaido that fetched a winning bid price of 300,000 yen June 17, 2013, in the year's first auction of the fruit at a produce market in Asahikawa. Densuke watermelons are a signature product of the town of Toma.

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Tuna sold at record 155.4 mil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyoshi Kimura, president of sushi restaurant chain operator Kiyomura Co., shows a 222-kilogram bluefin tuna at the Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market in Tokyo's Tsukiji district on Jan. 5, 2013. The company made a successful bid for the tuna for an all-time high of 155.4 million yen (about $1.3 million), or 700,000 yen per kg, during the year's first auction at the market.