Buyer splashes out $1.3m for Tokyo new year tuna

Michelin-starred sushi restauranteurs the Onodera Group said they paid 207 million yen for the 276 kilogram (608 pound) bluefin tuna, roughly the size and weight of a motorbike. It is the second highest price paid at the opening auction of the year in Tokyo's main fish market since comparable data started being collected in 1999. The powerful buyers have now paid the top price for five years straight -- winning bragging rights and a lucrative frenzy of media attention in Japan. "The first tuna...