The popularity of nishikigoi carp is growing outside Japan.
Known as the "swimming jewel," one nishikigoi can fetch up to tens of millions of yen.
Exports from the Tokai region, an area that actively breeds and raises Japanese brocaded carp, grew to ¥264 million in 2015, 20 times higher than in 2010.
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