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A prospective buyer inspects the quality of a frozen tuna before the first auction of the year at the newly opened Toyosu Market, new site of Tokyo's fish market, in Tokyo Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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Hiroyasu Ito, chairperson of the Toyosu Market Association, speaks to reporters at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. Ito acknowledged Tuesday the recent move of Japan’s main fish market from Tsukiji to a site found contaminated by arsenic could have been better handled. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

Official: Move of Japan fish market could have been better

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, rear center, leads opening ceremony for new site of Tokyo's fish market which will officially open to the public next month, in Tokyo Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Tokyo's hugely popular Tsukiji fish market will be closed for up to five years while it is modernized and turned into a food theme park. The fish market's move to Toyosu was originally scheduled for last year but has been delayed due to contamination of underground water at the new complex. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Tokyo chief opens replacement for city’s iconic fish market

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2016, file photo, people visit a festival held at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said Tuesday, June 20, 2017, the giant Tsukiji fish market, popular with tourists, will stay, although it will get modernized and developed within five years. Koike said that the market will temporarily move to Toyosu, which required a 600 billion yen ($6 billion) investment. She canceled the move in August, just months before Toyosu's scheduled opening, after food safety concerns were raised. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Famous Tsukiji fish market will be remade, not destroyed

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press