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We continue the stories about the most incredible acquisitions on auctions of the world when in terms of a normal person millions dollars are paid for completely useless things, and not even representing no material value. Exactly those are, for example, paintings by contemporary expressionists, more similar to colorful blots for which wealthy collectors spread at the auction tens of millions of dollars.
In this case, the Japanese Kiyoshi Kimura acquired at an auction in Tokyo for 3.1 million US dollars a giant carcass of tuna – weighing 278 kilograms (caught such an expensive “fish” in the waters near the port of Om). This purchase, though it makes some sense, for example, gastronomic, but it’s no less surprising, since such an expensive acquisition cannot even be saved, attached, say, to a unique collection.
However, Kiyoshi Kimura is the owner of the largest network restaurants in the Land of the Rising Sun. His company Kiyomura Corporation just specializes in Japanese dishes, and because the purchased product not only will not be wasted, but it will also pay for part of the funds spent on it. But the main thing is that he is excellent advertising of the Kimura restaurant chain.
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In addition, in Japan, such fish trading is also national tradition that Japanese authorities and wealthy people strongly support. This year they passed on January 5 at the fish Toesu market – a new point for such gastronomic auctions. The fact is that the Tsukiji market, which was over 80 years old and he became famous for more than one such “crazy” deal, now rescheduled in Tokyo, as the “hatched” place needed to be vacated under the upcoming 2020 Olympics in Japan.
In conclusion, we note that the current trading record has surpassed almost twice the amount of the previous similar achievement of 1999. how reporters noted, there are perhaps three reasons for this: or for this time has sharply fallen in price the dollar, or wealthier have become richer Japanese, or the world is going crazy more and more.
Do you think that of these statements seems the most a real explanation of the strange for most of the inhabitants of the Earth record – to buy fish for more than three million dollars? ..
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