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October 12, 2018
TOKYO — Tokyo's famous fish market reopened Thursday at a new location but retained its most famous tradition: the tuna auction.
The customary clanging of bells opened the auction for raw and frozen tuna, which crammed the huge warehouse wall-to-wall, at the waterfront Toyosu facility. The rhythmical shouts of the auctioneers and the special hand signals by the bidders that followed were unchanged from Tsukiji, the smaller, more accessible home the market recently left after more than eight decades.
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