A 222kg bluefin tuna sells for 155.4m yen – a new record for a single fish – at the first auction of 2013 at Tsukiji fish market, in Tokyo, Japan. The record bid was three times higher than in last year’s auction. In photos below, winning bidder Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co, poses before he cuts his prized bluefin tuna at his Sushi Zanmai restaurant near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo.
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