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TOKYO — A bluefin tuna sold for more than $1.3 million at an annual fish auction in Tokyo, in what organizers said was the second-highest bid since the event began in 1999. The 608-pound bluefin tuna, which is about the size and weight of a motorcycle, was purchased for 207 million yen ($1,316,835) at the new year auction at the Toyosu market, the main fish market in Tokyo, by seafood wholesaler Yamayuki and Michelin-starred sushi chain operator Onodera Group. “The first tuna is meant to bring good fortune,” company president Shinji Nagao told reporters at the market right after the auction. It was paid by Kiyoshi Kimura, the head of another chain of sushi restaurants who is known as the “Tuna King” of Japan. Arata Yamamoto reported from Tokyo, and Kim Gu reported from Hong Kong.

Persons: “, Shinji Nagao, ”, Kiyoshi Kimura, Arata Yamamoto, Kim Gu Organizations: Michelin, Onodera Locations: TOKYO, Tokyo, Toyosu, Japan, Hong Kong

Tokyo CNN —A bluefin tuna about the size of a motorcycle has been sold for $1.3 million (207 million yen) at Japan’s most prestigious fish market, setting the second highest price on record during its new year auction. The highest bid on record is $3.1 million (333.6 million yen) for a 278-kilogram tuna in 2019. A 276-kilogram bluefin tuna that was auctioned for 207 million Japanese yen (about about 1.3 million U.S. dollars). First opened in 1935, the fish market was originally located in Tsukiji and was one of Tokyo’s most popular travel destinations. A 276-kilogram bluefin tuna that was auctioned for 207 million Japanese yen (about 1.3 million U.S. dollars) is carried into an Onodera sushi restaurant.

Persons: ”, Shinji Nagao, Sushi, Masahiro Takeuchi, “ I’m, I’ll, Issei Kato Organizations: Tokyo CNN, Michelin, Onodera Group, Kyodo, Reuters, Onodera, Oma, NHK, World Wildlife Fund, WWF Locations: Tokyo, Los Angeles, Aomori, Tsukiji, Toyosu

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☆ $800,000 tuna to be turned into sushi at Michelin-starred restaurant
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-06 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewA bluefin tuna sold for 114.2 million Japanese yen, or nearly $800,000, at Tokyo's largest fish market is set to be served at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Japan. The prized tuna will be enjoyed by diners at the Michelin-starred sushi restaurant Onodera in Tokyo's upmarket Ginza district, reported The Japan Times. Media crowd around as a 524 pound bluefin tuna - which was purchased earlier in the day for $788,440 at the first tuna auction of the New Year in Tokyo on January 5, 2024. The world record price for a tuna was set in 2019, when the sushi tycoon and "Tuna King," Kiyoshi Kimura, paid $3.1 million for a 612-pound fish. AdvertisementDerek Wilcox, a chef trained in Japan and who worked there for 10 years, previously told Business Insider that bluefin tuna was "the most sought after."

Persons: —, Hiroki Matsushita, Yukitaka Yamaguchi, Bluefin, RICHARD A, BROOKS, Kiyoshi Kimura, Kimura, Derek Wilcox Organizations: Service, Michelin, Bloomberg, Business, Onodera Group, Japan Times, Media, Getty, Japan National Tourism Organization, AFP, Oma Locations: Japan, Aomori Prefecture, Ginza, Tokyo, AFP

☆ As Japan ages, young Indonesians train to fill caregiver jobs
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Zahra Matarani | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] An elderly couple walks through red-coloured wooden torii gates at a shrine, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan December 22, 2020. The role play is an example of the type of training being offered by vocational institutions across Indonesia catering to students seeking to fill job vacancies in Japan. Births in Japan fell to fewer than 800,000 for the first time last year, according to official data, as Japan's working-age population shrinks. Hiroki Sasaki, labour attache at the Japanese embassy in Jakarta, estimates only about 130,000 of the 340,000 special skilled job vacancies in Japan have been filled. As of December 2022, there were more than 16,000 Indonesians working under Japan's special skilled worker scheme, the second-highest number behind Vietnam.

☆ China's balloons give Japan and Taiwan a reason to share intelligence, says lawmaker
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

TOKYO, Feb 16 (Reuters) - The flight of suspected Chinese surveillance balloons has shown that Japan and Taiwan need to share "critical" intelligence about possible aerial threats, a senior defence policymaker for Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party said. Japan said on Tuesday it suspected Chinese spy balloons had flown over Japan at least three times, most recently in 2021. The change will add unmanned aircraft to those," Minoru Kihara, one of the lawmakers, told reporters after the briefing. Japan on Wednesday said it had warned China that violations of its airspace by surveillance balloons were unacceptable. China said the balloon was a civilian weather-monitoring aircraft and it accused the United States of sending its balloons into Chinese airspace.

TOKYO, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Japan, Britain and Italy will announce a groundbreaking agreement as early as next week to jointly develop a new advanced jet fighter, two sources with knowledge of the plan told Reuters. The push to merge the British led Tempest jet fighter project with Japan's F-X fighter programme was first reported by Reuters in July. It will be the first time that Japan has collaborated with countries beyond the United States on a major defence equipment project. The announcement will come before Japan releases a new national security strategy and military procurement plan around mid December, the sources said. Reporting by Tim Kelly Editing by Shri NavaratnamOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Japan and Britain hope to agree by the end of the year to merge their next-generation Tempest and F-X fighter programmes, sources said in July. Those talks, aimed at a joint project to field a plane in the mid-2030s, remain on track, according to four other people familiar with the discussions. Japan ended a ban on military exports in 2014 in a bid to promote overseas sales. An export boom, however, failed to materialize because Japan only allowed sales of non-lethal gear such as surveillance and rescue equipment. LDP lawmakers, Onodera said, are also discussing a joint U.S-Japan command structure that could be formed for national emergencies.

☆ Japonia vrea să dezvolte sisteme de rachete capabile să atingă teritoriul Coreei de Nord
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-09 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Japonia intenţionează să dezvolte sisteme de rachete capabile să atingă teritoriul Coreei de Nord, în cadrul unui plan de suplimentare a capabilităţilor militare care ar oferi Guvernului de la Tokyo posibilitatea de lansare a unui atac preventiv, conform publicaţiei The Wall Street Journal, citată de Mediafax. Parlamentarii coaliţiei guvernamentale au aprobat miercuri propunerea privind sistemul balistic, iar ministrul japonez al Apărării, Nobuo Kishi, a declarat că armata vrea consolidarea capabilităţilor militare pentru contracararea inamicilor. Fostul premier nipon Shinzo Abe a avut ca prioritate dezvoltarea unor sisteme antibalistice. Noul Guvern de la Tokyo, condus de premierul Yoshihide Suga, va instala sisteme antibalistice de tip Aegis la bordul unor nave militare. În plus, Ministerul japonez al Apărării vrea să achiziţioneze rachete de tip „12”, dezvoltate de filiala militară a companiei Mitsubishi.

Persons: Shinzo Abe, Itsunori Organizations: Wall Street Journal, Mediafax, Apărării, Ministerul, Mitsubishi, Partidului Liberal - Democrat Locations: Japonia, Coreei de Nord, Tokyo, Coreea de Nord

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