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An organization spent seven figures to accumulate an enormous tuna throughout an public sale held at a Japanese fish market in Tokyo over the weekend.
The 600-plus-pound tuna went to Onodera Group, a Japanese firm that runs sushi eating places and companies in different sectors, based on a translated press launch.
A staggering $1.3 million (207 million yen) bid landed the corporate the large bluefin tuna.
A bluefin tuna from Oma, Aomori Prefecture, which was bought earlier within the day for $1.3 million, is offered to the media following the primary tuna public sale of the New 12 months at Tokyo’s Toyosu Market on Jan. 5, 2025. (STR/Jiji Press/AFP through Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
The seven-figure sale was a part of Toyosu Market’s first tuna public sale of 2025, Onodera Group mentioned within the press launch. It was held on Sunday.
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The Japan Nationwide Tourism Group referred to as Toyosu Market the “biggest fish market in the world.” Individuals promote tuna and different seafood there, in addition to vegatables and fruits.
Onodera Group mentioned it has scored the primary tuna 5 years in a row. It additionally did so in 2018, based on the corporate’s press launch.
Over the previous 26 years, the market has solely seen one different New 12 months’s tuna go for the next value than this 12 months’s $1.3 million, AFP reported. That fish, offered in 2019, reportedly value 333.6 million yen.
Consumers throughout the first tuna public sale of the 12 months at Toyosu Market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2025. (David Mareuil/Anadolu through Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
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“The first tuna is something meant to bring in good fortune. Our wish is that people will eat this and have a wonderful year,” Onodera’s Shinji Nagao mentioned over the weekend, based on AFP.
13 of the corporate’s Ginza Onodera sushi eating places will dish up meat from the $1.3 million tuna, based on Onodera Group. A number of Ginza Onodera areas have acquired Michelin stars over time.
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