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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:06 pm Post subject:
Tuna fetches $396,000 in Tokyo
By TOMOKO A. HOSAKA, Associated Press Tomoko A. Hosaka, Associated Press – Wed Jan 5, 2:03 am ET
TOKYO – A giant bluefin tuna fetched a record 32.49 million yen, or nearly $396,000, in Tokyo on Wednesday, in the first auction of the year at the world's largest wholesale fish market.
The price for the 754-pound (342-kilogram) tuna beat the previous record set in 2001 when a 445-pound (202-kilogram) fish sold for 20.2 million yen, a spokesman for Tsukiji market said.
"It was an exceptionally large fish," said the official, Yutaka Hasegawa. "But we were all surprised by the price."
The massive tuna was bought and shared by the same duo that won the bidding for last year's top fish: the owners of Kyubey, an upscale sushi restaurant in Tokyo's Ginza district, and Itamae Sushi, a casual, Hong Kong-based chain.
Reporters thronged Hong Kong entrepreneur Ricky Cheng after his big win, which reflects the growing popularity of sushi around the world, particularly in Asia.
"I was nervous when I arrived in Tokyo yesterday, but I am relieved now," he said after the auction, which began shortly after 5 a.m.
The giant tuna, caught off the coast of northern Japan, was among 538 shipped in from around the world for Wednesday's auction.
The record-setting price translates to a whopping 95,000 yen per kilogram, or about $526 per pound.
Japan is the world's biggest consumer of seafood, with Japanese eating 80 percent of the Atlantic and Pacific bluefins caught. The two tuna species are the most sought-after by sushi lovers.
Fatty bluefin — called "o-toro" here — can sell for 2,000 yen ($24) per piece at high-end Tokyo sushi restaurants.
By TOMOKO A. HOSAKA, Associated Press Tomoko A. Hosaka, Associated Press – Wed Jan 5, 2:03 am ET
TOKYO – A giant bluefin tuna fetched a record 32.49 million yen, or nearly $396,000, in Tokyo on Wednesday, in the first auction of the year at the world's largest wholesale fish market.
The price for the 754-pound (342-kilogram) tuna beat the previous record set in 2001 when a 445-pound (202-kilogram) fish sold for 20.2 million yen, a spokesman for Tsukiji market said.
"It was an exceptionally large fish," said the official, Yutaka Hasegawa. "But we were all surprised by the price."
The massive tuna was bought and shared by the same duo that won the bidding for last year's top fish: the owners of Kyubey, an upscale sushi restaurant in Tokyo's Ginza district, and Itamae Sushi, a casual, Hong Kong-based chain.
Reporters thronged Hong Kong entrepreneur Ricky Cheng after his big win, which reflects the growing popularity of sushi around the world, particularly in Asia.
"I was nervous when I arrived in Tokyo yesterday, but I am relieved now," he said after the auction, which began shortly after 5 a.m.
The giant tuna, caught off the coast of northern Japan, was among 538 shipped in from around the world for Wednesday's auction.
The record-setting price translates to a whopping 95,000 yen per kilogram, or about $526 per pound.
Japan is the world's biggest consumer of seafood, with Japanese eating 80 percent of the Atlantic and Pacific bluefins caught. The two tuna species are the most sought-after by sushi lovers.
Fatty bluefin — called "o-toro" here — can sell for 2,000 yen ($24) per piece at high-end Tokyo sushi restaurants.
Saw this on the news yesterday. It made me hungry so I went to my local kaiten and ordered up some otoro.
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 11:53 pm Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
LOL.
I don't think I'd use that for a negitoro hand roll.
Someone at work asked me if I wanted something from this supposedly Japanese takeout place. Looked at the menu and found "tuna roll". I thought I could go for some tekka maki. I opened the takeout box and found canned tuna rolled up like a tekka maki!!! I tried one and it was horrible!! I couldn't believe people were taking out from there.
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:40 pm Post subject:
Japanese PM ridiculed by wife
By North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy
Japan's first lady has caused a stir after revealing she would not marry her husband if she could live her life over again.
It is not the first time the prime minister's wife has publicly criticised her husband.
Speaking to foreign reporters, Japan's first lady, Nobuko Kan, revealed that she preferred scolding her husband rather than encouraging him.
In a book she wrote last year, Mrs Kan described the prime minister as lacking dress sense, and accused him of botching his first policy speech.
She joked to reporters that she had told her husband his level of public support could not get any worse, quipping that there is no such thing as an approval rating less than zero.
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:47 pm Post subject:
^ Maybe he wishes he'd married Hatoyama's wife instead. All she ever did was claim she'd been abducted by aliens and that she knew Tom Cruise in a previous life.
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I couldn't believe people were taking out from there. 
