In 2013, Kiyoshi Kimura, the owner of a Japanese sushi restaurant chain, paid $1.76 million for the first bluefin at Tsukiji, which weighed 489 pounds. Kimura had paid $736,000âa world-record price at the timeâfor the first tuna of 2012. That fish weighed 593 pounds.
Shanghai International Port, China. The Shanghai harbor opened in 1842 as a treaty port. It faces the East China Sea to the east and Hangzhou Bay to the south. Back in the early 20th century, Shanghai became not only the largest city in the Far East, but the largest port too.
Guangzhou, Wade-Giles romanization Kuang-chou, conventional Canton or Kwangchow, GuangzhouÂ© konglinguang/Shutterstock.comcity, capital of Guangdong sheng (province), southern China. Its city centre lies near the head of the Pearl River (Zhu Jiang) Delta, more than 90 miles (145 km) inland from the South China Sea. Because of its position at the meeting point of inland rivers and the sea, it has long been one of Chinaâs main commercial and trading centres.