Japan Tsukiji Tuna Auction

January 5, 2018

Tokyo- Tuna fish brokers check the quality of a bluefin tuna in the final year-opening auction at Tsukiji Market in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, 05 January 2018.

A bluefin tuna, with a weight of 405 kg, was sold for about 36,500,000 yen (about 320,000 US dollar) in the year-opener auction.

This year's top per kilogram price, for a smaller tuna, was 1,419 US dollar per kilogram, paid by Kiyoshi Kimura, who runs the Sushi Zanmai chain sushi restaurant. Jiji Press