Tokyo ends year on a high
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Tokyo&#39;s Nikkei 225 share average finished the year on a high Thursday, gained 0.94 percent on Thursday. Carmakers such as Honda Motor Co.
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Japan got a double dose of good economic news Friday with the release of healthy industrial production and consumer price figures that underlines continued recovery of the world's second-largest economy.
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TOKYO - Japan&#39;s benchmark Nikkei stock index closed at a five-and-a-half-month-high Thursday, the final day of trading this year, with investors showing a strong appetite almost across the board on expectations that the outlook for the stock market will
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Japan's Nikkei average was up 1.22  percent at midsession on Friday after touching its highest in 2  months on gains on Wall Street that stoked optimism about the  U.S. economy and the outlook for Japan's export-led recovery.
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Japan's industrial output hits a record level, as the world's second-largest economy continues to recover.
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An earthquake in Ojiya in the Niigata province in Northern Japan measured 6.8 on the Richter scale and shook Tokyo, Japan&#39;s capital, 256km to the south.
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Tokyo's Nikkei average rose near a  six-month high by midsession on Tuesday, with retailer  Ito-Yokado Co. gaining on solid earnings and optimism about the  economy lifting stocks oriented toward domestic business.
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Japan's Nikkei average rose more than 1  percent to a 2-1/2-month closing high on Friday, bolstered by  Wall Street gains and a growing consensus that Tokyo stocks  look cheap compared with the U.S. and other Asian markets.
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The Tokyo stock market&#39;s main index climbed to a five-month high Tuesday on expectations share prices in Japan and the United States would rise in the coming new year.
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Ichiro Suzuki's relentless assault on  Major League Baseball's (MLB) record books has given sport in  Japan a huge lift after a disappointing year.
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TOKYO - Stocks opened higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday, the final day of trading this year, after investors showed a strong appetite almost across the board on expectations that Japanese stocks will perform well next year.
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The moving retrospective of the Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu at the Japan Society was among the highlights of the year.
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Japanese stocks rose to a seven-year high Monday, lifted by stronger-than-expected machinery orders. The Nikkei 225 index climbed 121.04 points, or 0.67 percent, on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, to 18,261.98 points, the index's highest close since May 2, 2000.
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Japan&#39;s Nikkei average surged to its highest close in four weeks on Friday as hopes for a seasonal year-end rally and the imminent inclusion of oil and gas developer INPEX Corp.
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The number of Japanese who have lived 100 years or more surged to a record-high 23,038 in 2004 in the world's longest-living country, the government said Tuesday.
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After a year full of events that might have tripped up the stock market, the main market gauges finished higher, thanks in part to a powerful postelection rally.
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Tokyo's Nikkei average rose 0.7 percent  to a seven-month closing high on Thursday as brokerages rallied  on news of a possible merger between Daiwa Securities and  Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group