A celebrated Japanese sushi businessman, nicknamed “Tuna King”, paid $1.8 million for a giant tuna at a New Year’s auction at Tokyo’s main fish market on Sunday. Kiyoshi Kimura, who runs a successful sushi restaurant chain, paid 193 million yen ($1.8 million) to purchase a 276-kilogram (608-pound) bluefin tuna, caught off the Aomori region in northern Japan.

'Tuna King' buys catch for $1.8 million. (2020, January 6). Manila Standard, p. B3.