Sushi Chain Takes $600,000 Loss on Japanese Tuna for Patriotism

A Japanese sushi chain will take a more than $600,000 loss on the most expensive fish ever sold at Tokyo’s Tsukiji market as it sells $74 pieces of tuna for $5 apiece.

Kiyomura K.K. paid a record 56 million yen ($730,000) for the fish at the market’s first auction in 2012. Chefs carved it into about 10,000 pieces of sushi that were sold at the restaurants’ normal prices of between 134 yen and 418 yen instead of the 5,649 yen needed for the chain to break even.