‘This is the best’: Rare tuna sold for $1.8M

Published January 6, 2020 8:25pm ET



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.

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