Record 3.1 million U.S. dollars paid for tuna at Tokyo fish market

Kiyomura Co's President Kiyoshi Kimura, who runs a chain of sushi restaurants Sushi Zanmai, gestures after tasting meat from a 278 kilogram bluefin tuna, priced with a record 333,600,000 yen (3.1 million U.S. dollars) bid at the Toyosu fish market's first tuna auction this year, at his sushi restaurant in Tokyo on Saturday, January 5, 2019. [Photo: VCG/Kim Kyung-Hoon]