A $600,000-price tag may seem mighty high for just one giant bluefin tuna. But if every torpedo-shaped tuna cost that much, perhaps the species wouldn't be teetering on the edge of extinction. A ...

Sushi restauranteur Kiyoshi Kimura poses with a 507-pound (230-kilogram) bluefin tuna he bought at an auction before cutting it at his restaurant near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Sunday, Jan. 5, ...

Onodera Group, which owns Michelin-starred sushi restaurants, announced the purchase of a large bluefin tuna for $1.3 million (207 million yen). The tuna is about the size and weight of a motorbike, ...

TOKYO – Any fisherman knows that catching the big one often requires waking up very early. The same is true for seafood lovers angling to see the famous tuna auction at the Tsukiji fish market in ...

The year started off in an amazing way with a giant bluefin tuna being sold at Tokyo’s Toyosu Fish Market. Onodera Group, a famous chain of Michelin-starred sushi restaurants, bought the special fish ...

TOKYO – Two sushi bar owners paid more than $100,000 for a Japanese bluefin tuna at a Tokyo fish auction Monday, about ten times the average price and the highest in nearly a decade, market officials ...

This morning at the famed Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, the first auction of 2018 saw a massive bluefina tuna fetch a hefty $323,000. The fish weighed 890 pounds, Reuters reports, bringing its price ...

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TOKYO (Reuters) - The owner of a Japanese sushi restaurant chain on Saturday set a record by paying more than $3 million for a bluefin tuna in the year's first auction at Tokyo's new fish market, ...

TOKYO — It’s among the biggest of Japan’s many New Year holiday rituals: Early on Tuesday, a huge, glistening tuna was auctioned for about $118,000 at Tokyo’s 80-year-old Tsukiji market. Next year, if ...