NEW-YEAR/JAPAN(01 of46)
Open Image ModalKiyomura Co\'s President Kiyoshi Kimura (C), who runs a chain of sushi restaurants, holds a sword as he poses with a 200 kg (400 lbs) bluefin tuna at his sushi restaurant outside Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Japan, January 5, 2016. Kimura won the bid for the tuna caught off Oma, Aomori prefecture, northern Japan, with a 14 million yen (117,000 USD) at the fish market\'s first tuna auction this year. REUTERS/Toru Hanai TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY (credit:Reuters Staff / Reuters)
JAPAN ECONOMY/CONFIDENCE(02 of46)
Open Image ModalWholesalers survey fresh tuna at the Tsukiji fish market before the New Year\'s auction in Tokyo January 5, 2013. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD - SEARCH \"GLOBAL BUSINESS AUG 29\" FOR ALL IMAGES? (credit:Toru Hanai / Reuters)
NEW-YEAR/JAPAN(03 of46)
Open Image ModalWholesalers claps their hands before the New Year\'s auction for fresh tuna at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Japan, January 5, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (credit:Reuters Staff / Reuters)
NEW-YEAR/JAPAN(04 of46)
Open Image ModalA wholesaler checks the quality of frozen tuna displayed at the Tsukiji fish market before the New Year\'s auction in Tokyo, Japan, January 5, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (credit:Reuters Staff / Reuters)
NEW-YEAR/JAPAN(05 of46)
Open Image ModalAn auctioneer gestures as wholesalers bid for frozen tuna during the New Year\'s auction at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Japan, January 5, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (credit:Reuters Staff / Reuters)
NEW-YEAR/JAPAN(06 of46)
Open Image ModalA wholesaler checks the quality of frozen tuna displayed at the Tsukiji fish market before the New Year\'s auction in Tokyo, Japan, January 5, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (credit:Reuters Staff / Reuters)
NEW-YEAR/JAPAN(07 of46)
Open Image ModalKiyomura Co\'s President Kiyoshi Kimura (C), who runs a chain of sushi restaurants, holds a sword as he poses with a 200 kg (400 lbs) bluefin tuna at his sushi restaurant outside Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Japan, January 5, 2016. Kimura won the bid for the tuna caught off Oma, Aomori prefecture, northern Japan, with a 14 million yen (117,000 USD) at the fish market\'s first tuna auction this year. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (credit:Reuters Staff / Reuters)
NEW-YEAR/JAPAN(08 of46)
Open Image ModalKiyomura Co\'s President Kiyoshi Kimura (C), who runs a chain of sushi restaurants, holds a sword as he poses with a 200 kg (400 lbs) bluefin tuna at his sushi restaurant outside Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Japan, January 5, 2016. Kimura won the bid for the tuna caught off Oma, Aomori prefecture, northern Japan, with a 14 million yen (117,000 USD) at the fish market\'s first tuna auction this year. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (credit:Reuters Staff / Reuters)
NEW-YEAR/JAPAN(09 of46)
Open Image ModalA wholesaler checks the quality of a fresh tuna displayed at the Tsukiji fish market before the New Year\'s auction in Tokyo, Japan, January 5, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (credit:Reuters Staff / Reuters)
JAPAN-TSUKIJI/(10 of46)
Open Image ModalA waitress leaves the pavilion of a restaurant in the outer part of the Tsukiji fish market, the Jogai Shijo, in Tokyo January 4, 2015. The famous Tsukiji wholesale fish and seafood market, is scheduled to leave its fabled 80-year-old halls to move into bigger, more modern facilities next year ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The outer part of the market, the Jogai Shijo, that caters to the public will stay in its old place, but critics wonder about its chances for survival without the world\'s biggest fish trading place at its doorsteps. Picture taken January 4, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (JAPAN - Tags: BUSINESS FOOD SOCIETY) (credit:Thomas Peter / Reuters)
JAPAN-TSUKIJI/(11 of46)
Open Image ModalA general view shows the back portion (L) of the outer part of the Tsukiji fish market, the Jogai Shijo, in Tokyo January 4, 2015. The famous Tsukiji wholesale fish and seafood market, is scheduled to leave its fabled 80-year-old halls to move into bigger, more modern facilities next year ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The outer part of the market, the Jogai Shijo, that caters to the public will stay in its old place, but critics wonder about its chances for survival without the world\'s biggest fish trading place at its doorsteps. Picture taken January 4, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (JAPAN - Tags: BUSINESS CITYSCAPE SOCIETY) (credit:Thomas Peter / Reuters)
JAPAN-TSUKIJI/(12 of46)
Open Image ModalA man and a woman wearing a Kimono walk in the outer part of the Tsukiji fish market, the Jogai Shijo, in Tokyo January 4, 2015. The famous Tsukiji wholesale fish and seafood market, is scheduled to leave its fabled 80-year-old halls to move into bigger, more modern facilities next year ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The outer part of the market, the Jogai Shijo, that caters to the public will stay in its old place, but critics wonder about its chances for survival without the world\'s biggest fish trading place at its doorsteps. Picture taken January 4, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (JAPAN - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY) (credit:Thomas Peter / Reuters)
JAPAN-TSUKIJI/(13 of46)
Open Image ModalA man cycles past an entrance to the outer part of the Tsukiji fish market, the Jogai Shijo, in Tokyo January 4, 2015. The famous Tsukiji wholesale fish and seafood market, is scheduled to leave its fabled 80-year-old halls to move into bigger, more modern facilities next year ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The outer part of the market, the Jogai Shijo, that caters to the public will stay in its old place, but critics wonder about its chances for survival without the world\'s biggest fish trading place at its doorsteps. Picture taken January 4, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (JAPAN - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY) (credit:Thomas Peter / Reuters)
JAPAN-TSUKIJI/(14 of46)
Open Image ModalPeople line up to buy seafood in the outer part of the Tsukiji fish market, the Jogai Shijo, in Tokyo January 4, 2015. The famous Tsukiji wholesale fish and seafood market, is scheduled to leave its fabled 80-year-old halls to move into bigger, more modern facilities next year ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The outer part of the market, the Jogai Shijo, that caters to the public will stay in its old place, but critics wonder about its chances for survival without the world\'s biggest fish trading place at its doorsteps. Picture taken January 4, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (JAPAN - Tags: BUSINESS FOOD SOCIETY) (credit:Thomas Peter / Reuters)
Japan Fish Market(15 of46)
Open Image ModalFILE - In this Jan. 5, 2016, file photo, a prospective buyer inspects the quality of fresh tuna before the first auction of the year at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. A newly elected leader of Tokyo has postponed a plan to relocate the world\'s biggest fish market, one of the city\'s most famous landmarks. Gov. Yuriko Koike announced Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, that she would decide on a date only after an environmental assessment of the new site is completed in January. The move had been scheduled to take place in early November. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan Daily Life(16 of46)
Open Image ModalA fish dealer loads the heads of tuna at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, June 23, 2016. The world\'s biggest and most famous seafood market â also a major tourist attraction in Tokyo â is due to move in November to a massive complex further south in Tokyo Bay, making way for redevelopment of the prime slice of downtown real estate. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan Daily Life(17 of46)
Open Image ModalFish dealers get a ride on a trolley after the day\'s auction at Tsukiji Wholesale Market, known as the world\'s biggest and most famous fish and seafood market, in Tokyo, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan Moving Tsukiji(18 of46)
Open Image ModalA customer receives a plate of tuna sushi as employees of Kiyomura Co. cut up a 200-kilogram (440-pound) bluefin tuna the company bought at the year\'s celebratory first auction, at a sushi restaurant near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016. Early on Tuesday, the huge, glistening tuna was auctioned for about 14 million Japanese yen ($118,000) during the last auction at Tokyo\'s 80-year-old Tsukiji market, which is due to move in November to a massive complex further south in Tokyo Bay, making way for redevelopment of the prime slice of downtown real estate. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan Moving Tsukiji(19 of46)
Open Image ModalEmployees of Kiyomura Co. cut up a 200-kilogram (440-pound) bluefin tuna the company bought at the year\'s celebratory first auction as restaurateur Kiyoshi Kimura, center seen through the arm of an employee at right, watches at his sushi restaurant near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016. Early on Tuesday, the huge, glistening tuna was auctioned for about 14 million Japanese yen ($118,000) during the last auction at Tokyo\'s 80-year-old Tsukiji market, which is due to move in November to a massive complex further south in Tokyo Bay, making way for redevelopment of the prime slice of downtown real estate. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan Moving Tsukiji(20 of46)
Open Image ModalAn employee of Kiyomura Co. shows a fillet of a bluefin tuna the company bought at the year\'s celebratory first auction as it is sliced for customers at his sushi restaurant near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016. Early on Tuesday, the 200-kilogram (440-pound) glistening tuna was auctioned for about 14 million Japanese yen ($118,000) during the last auction at Tokyo\'s 80-year-old Tsukiji market, which is due to move in November to a massive complex further south in Tokyo Bay, making way for redevelopment of the prime slice of downtown real estate. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan Moving Tsukiji(21 of46)
Open Image ModalA prospective buyer inspects the quality of frozen tuna before the first auction of the year at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016. Itâs among the biggest of Japanâs many New Year holiday rituals: Early on Tuesday, a huge, glistening tuna was auctioned for about 14 million Japanese yen ($118,000) at Tokyoâs 80-year-old Tsukiji market. Next year, if all goes as planned, the tradition wonât be quite the same. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan Moving Tsukiji(22 of46)
Open Image ModalProspective buyers inspects the quality of fin of a fresh tuna before the first auction of the year at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016. Itâs among the biggest of Japanâs many New Year holiday rituals: Early on Tuesday, a huge, glistening tuna was auctioned for about 14 million Japanese yen ($118,000) at Tokyoâs 80-year-old Tsukiji market. Next year, if all goes as planned, the tradition wonât be quite the same. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan Moving Tsukiji(23 of46)
Open Image ModalA prospective buyer inspects the quality of frozen tuna before the first auction of the year at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016. Itâs among the biggest of Japanâs many New Year holiday rituals: Early on Tuesday, a huge, glistening tuna was auctioned for about 14 million Japanese yen ($118,000) at Tokyoâs 80-year-old Tsukiji market. Next year, if all goes as planned, the tradition wonât be quite the same. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan New Years Eve(24 of46)
Open Image ModalWith a banner that reads \"spicy cod roe\" a vender, top left, calls for attention of shoppers who look for ingredients for âosechiâ or traditional Japanese New Year dishes, near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. New Year is Japan\'s biggest holiday, and millions crammed into trains to flee the cities for their hometowns to slurp down bowls of noodles, symbolizing longevity, while watching the annual Red and White NHK song competition. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan New Years Eve(25 of46)
Open Image ModalVenders sell ingredients for âosechiâ or Japanese traditional New Year dishes, near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan New Years Eve(26 of46)
Open Image ModalA shopper buys ingredients for âosechiâ or Japanese traditional New Year dishes, at a shop near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan New Years Eve(27 of46)
Open Image ModalShoppers who look for ingredients for âosechiâ or Japanese traditional New Year dishes, look at seafoods at a fish store near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan New Years Eve(28 of46)
Open Image ModalShoppers buy a piece of tuna from Kiyoshi Kimura, center left, the owner of Japanese sushi restaurant chain Sushi Zanmai, at his fish store near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. Tsukiji fish market is crowded by shoppers who look for ingredients for âosechiâ or Japanese traditional New Year dishes. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan New Years Eve(29 of46)
Open Image ModalA vender, center, sells fresh seafood to shoppers who look for ingredients for âosechiâ or Japanese traditional New Year dishes, near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan New Years Eve(30 of46)
Open Image ModalShoppers who look for ingredients for âosechiâ or Japanese traditional New Year dishes, stroll near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Workers on a a motorized cargo cart called a taretto, Kanto region, Tokyo, Japan(31 of46)
Open Image ModalTOKYO, JAPAN - MAY 21: Workers on a a motorized cargo cart called a taretto, kanto region, tokyo, Japan on May 21, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images) (credit:Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us via Getty Images)
Whale shop at tsukiji fish market, Kanto region, Tokyo, Japan(32 of46)
Open Image ModalTOKYO, JAPAN - MAY 21: Whale shop at tsukiji fish market, Kanto region, Tokyo, Japan on May 21, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images) (credit:Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us via Getty Images)
Vendor holding a big tuna fish in tsukiji fish market, Kanto region, Tokyo, Japan(33 of46)
Open Image ModalTOKYO, JAPAN - MAY 21: Vendor holding a big tuna fish head in tsukiji fish market, Kanto region, Tokyo, Japan on May 21, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images) (credit:Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us via Getty Images)
Tsukiji fish market, Kanto region, Tokyo, Japan(34 of46)
Open Image ModalTOKYO, JAPAN - MAY 21: Tsukiji fish market, Kanto region, Tokyo, Japan on May 21, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images) (credit:Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us via Getty Images)
A man driving a motorized cargo cart called a taretto, Kanto region, Tokyo, Japan(35 of46)
Open Image ModalTOKYO, JAPAN - MAY 21: Aman driving a motorized cargo cart called a taretto, Kanto region, Tokyo, Japan on May 21, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images) (credit:Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us via Getty Images)
Tsukiji fish market, Kanto region, Tokyo, Japan(36 of46)
Open Image ModalTOKYO, JAPAN - MAY 21: Tsukiji fish market, Kanto region, Tokyo, Japan on May 21, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images) (credit:Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us via Getty Images)
Taretto in tsukiji fish market, Kanto region, Tokyo, Japan(37 of46)
Open Image ModalTOKYO, JAPAN - MAY 21: Taretto in tsukiji fish market, Kanto region, Tokyo, Japan on May 21, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images) (credit:Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us via Getty Images)
JAPAN(38 of46)
Open Image ModalA wholesaler hacks at the carcass of tuna after an auction at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo September 9, 2006. The market is the world\'s largest seafood wholesale market with an annual turnover of $6 billion, and nearly 3,000 tons and 450 species traded daily by auction. Tokyo\'s bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics proposes to build the media center or the athletes\' village on the site of the Tsukiji market, which the government has long tried to evict from prime real estate in central Tokyo. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (JAPAN) (credit:Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
JAPAN(39 of46)
Open Image ModalWholesalers prepare tuna for boxing after an auction at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo September 9, 2006. The market is the world\'s largest seafood wholesale market with an annual turnover of $6 billion, and nearly 3,000 tons and 450 species traded daily by auction. Tokyo\'s bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics proposes to build the media center or the athletes\' village on the site of the Tsukiji market, which the government has long tried to evict from prime real estate in central Tokyo. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (JAPAN) (credit:Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
JAPAN(40 of46)
Open Image ModalA wholesaler packs a tuna in a wooden box for shipping after an auction at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo September 9, 2006. The market is the world\'s largest seafood wholesale market with an annual turnover of $6 billion, and nearly 3,000 tons and 450 species traded daily by auction. Tokyo\'s bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics proposes to build the media center or the athletes\' village on the site of the Tsukiji market, which the government has long tried to evict from prime real estate in central Tokyo. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (JAPAN) (credit:Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
JAPAN(41 of46)
Open Image ModalOctopi are displayed for sale after an auction at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo September 9, 2006. The market is the world\'s largest seafood wholesale market with an annual turnover of $6 billion, and nearly 3,000 tons and 450 species traded daily by auction. Tokyo\'s bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics proposes to build the media center or the athletes\' village on the site of the Tsukiji market, which the government has long tried to evict from prime real estate in central Tokyo. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (JAPAN) (credit:Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
Japan Daily Life(42 of46)
Open Image ModalForeign tourists pose for a photo in front of a sushi restaurant at Tsukiji fish market, one of the most popular tourist spots in Tokyo, Monday, April 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan Daily Life(43 of46)
Open Image ModalForeign tourists use chopsticks to eat grilled scallops on a bench at Tsukiji fish market, one of the famous tourists spots in Tokyo, Monday, April 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan Tuna(44 of46)
Open Image ModalFILE - In this Friday, March 28, 2014 file photo, customers look at the head of a bluefin tuna in front of a sushi restaurant at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. The multi-nation fisheries body that monitors most of the Pacific Ocean has agreed to cut the catch of juvenile bluefin tuna to half of its average level in 2002-2004. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan Economy(45 of46)
Open Image ModalShoppers buy dry seafood at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Friday, March 28, 2014. Japanese household spending fell 1.5 percent in February from a year earlier, suggesting consumers are tightening belts ahead of an April 1 hike in the country\'s sales tax. The government also reported Friday, March 28 that core consumer prices rose 1.3 percent in February, though a large share of the increase was due to rising energy costs. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan Economy(46 of46)
Open Image ModalFILE - In this March 28, 2014 file photo, a fruits shop clerk waits for customers at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. Japan\'s consumer prices rose 3.2 percent from a year earlier in April to the highest level since 1991, the government said Friday, May 30, 2014, largely due to a sales tax increase.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)