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Japan’s new restaurant is reeling in customers with its all-you-can-eat sashimi experience
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Elliot Hale
Oct 23, 2025 - Tweet
- Japan
- (all-you-can-eat • bluefin tuna • COK • food and drinks • Gyoko Shokudo • Hadano • ikura • Kanagawa • Pacific Bluefin tuna • Restaurant • salmon roe • sashimi • Shrimp • SNJO • tabehodai • Takuya Inaba)
Bluefin tuna fish sells for bargain low price of roughly US$200,000 in Tokyo auction
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Katie Pask
Jan 7, 2021
- Japan
- (auction • bluefin tuna • culture • fish • food • ginza onodera • new year • sushi • Sushi Zanmai • Toyosu • Toyosu fish market • Toyosu Market • tuna)
Bunker down for winter with cozy tuna cushions and a five-foot tuna futon cover
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Ingrid Tsai
Nov 25, 2020
- Japan
- (aquaculture • bluefin tuna • cushion • cute • Felissimo • fish • fun • futon cover • Kindai University • plush toys • tuna)
Huge tuna fish sells for a whopping 190 million yen at the first wholesale auction of the year
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Dale Roll
Jan 8, 2020
The US$1.75 million bluefin tuna was bought by none other than the president of a popular sushi chain.
- Japan
- (bluefin tuna • hatsuseri • Kiyoshi Kimura • sashimi • sushi • Sushi Zanmai • Toyosu fish market • Tsukiji fish market • tuna • tuna auction)
Fresh tuna sashimi vs. frozen – Can our Japanese taste testers tell the difference in taste test?
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Richard Simmonds
Aug 29, 2017
- Japan
- (Ahiru Neko • bluefin tuna • Daiichiro Tashiro • food • Go Hatori • maguro • Mr. Sato • P.K. Sanjun • sashimi • Seiji Nakazawa • sushi • taste test • tuna • Yoshio • Yuichiro Wasai)
Greenpeace tells Obama to make ‘more responsible’ food choices after meal at restaurant that serves endangered sushi
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BUSINESS INSIDER
Apr 25, 2014
After President Barack Obama ate at a famous Tokyo restaurant that serves rare bluefin tuna, the environmental organization Greenpeace issued a statement saying he should have made more “responsible food choices.”
“As a role model, people will naturally follow you. The global appetite for bluefin tuna has destroyed this species, pushing it to the brink of extinction. It needs to be protected,” Casson Trenor, Greenpeace’s oceans campaigner, said in a statement to Business Insider.
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