TOKYO: A Japanese sushi boss paid more than $117,000 Tuesday for a giant bluefin tuna as Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market held its last New Year auction ahead of a much-needed modernization move.

Bidding stopped at a whopping 14 million yen for the enormous 200-kilogram (440-pound) fish—a threatened species—that was caught off Japan’s northern coast.

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