Miguel Garces
JAPAN-LIFESTYLE-FISHING-AUCTION-NEW YEAR
An employee of sushi restaurant chain Sushi-Zanmai shows the head of a 222-kg (488-pound) bluefin tuna purchased for a record price which will be sliced up for customers at the main restaurant of the chain near Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on January 5, 2013. The 222-kg bluefin tuna was traded at 155.4 million yen (appx. 1.8 million USD) at the wholesale market earlier in the day, nearly three times the previous high set last year. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO
JAPAN-LIFESTYLE-FISHING-AUCTION-NEW YEAR
An employee of sushi restaurant chain Sushi-Zanmai shows the head of a 222-kg (488-pound) bluefin tuna purchased for a record price which will be sliced up for customers at the main restaurant of the chain near Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on January 5, 2013. The 222-kg bluefin tuna was traded at 155.4 million yen (appx. 1.8 million USD) at the wholesale market earlier in the day, nearly three times the previous high set last year. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO