Winning bidder Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co., poses with a bluefin tuna in front of his Sushi Zanmai restaurant near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo yesterday. The bluefin tuna caught off northeastern Japan fetched a record 155.40 million yen, or about €1.3 million in the first auction of the year at the fish market. The tuna was caught off Oma in Aomori prefecture.

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