A Japanese man made a splash at a tuna auction in Japan, paying a whopping $1.8 million for one of the enormous fish.
Kiyoshi Kimura, known by some as the “Tuna King,” shelled out the enormous sum for a 608-pound bluefin at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market. Kimura is the president of Kiyomura Corp., which own the Japanese restaurant chain Sushizanmai.
“This is the best,” Kimura told reporters after the auction. “Yes, this is expensive, isn’t it? I want our customers to eat very tasty ones this year too.”
Bluefin tuna, which are considered an endangered species by the World Wildlife Fund, are the largest tuna in the world and can live up to 40 years.
This is not Kimura’s first pricey purchase. Last year, he broke the record for most expensive tuna when he paid $3.1 million for a 612-pound fish.
#Japon ?? Un thon bleu rare vendu pour 1,7 million de dollars à l’auto-proclamé “roi des sushis” KiyoshiKimura sur le marché de Tokyo via @Ruptly
pic.twitter.com/HEYnaB3prb— AsieNews (@AsiaNews_FR) January 5, 2020
