Sushi chain owner pays $3.2M for massive bluefin tuna

A Japanese sushi chain shattered records Monday by paying a staggering $3.24 million (510 million yen) for a single bluefin tuna at Tokyo’s famed New Year fish auction.

The top bidder for the prized 536-pound tuna was Kiyomura Corp., the Tokyo-based operator of popular sushi restaurant chain Sushi Zanmai. The bid broke Kiyomura's previous record of $2.1 million (333.6 million yen) in 2019.

Kiyomura owner Kiyoshi Kimura told reporters that he did not expect to pay so much for the fish...