Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Wednesday, extending gains after SoftBank Group trimmed losses, while Sony Group helped the broader To...

The index had declined 2.63% on Friday in its biggest daily decline in a month. Markets were closed on Monday for a public holiday.

Investors' response to stronger-than-expected economic growth data was limited as the outcome was already expected, said Suzuki.

"Investors still believe the Nikkei will rise further to cross the close in the previous session soon, but they wanted to take a pause toda...

Wall Street ended lower after a choppy session on Monday, with declines in Exxon Mobil and other energy companies weighing against gains in...

"The market is looking to what the Federal Reserve will do with its tapering," said Yuya Fukue, a trader at Rheos Capital Works.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the US job market still had "some ground to cover" before it would be time to pull back from its economic supp...

The Nikkei share average edged up 0.27 per cent to close at 29,019.24, after rising as high as 1 per cent to reach a nearly four-week high ...

Nearly two-thirds of the 33 sector sub-indexes on the Tokyo exchange traded lower, with services, securities brokerages and other financial...

SoftBank added 16 positive points to the Nikkei and helped the index to outperform Topix, which dropped 0.2 per cent at 1,588.29.

For the month, the Nikkei gained 3.8 per cent, after diving 10.5 per cent last month.

Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones 1,420 to 648.

The Nikkei share average ended 0.2 per cent lower at 21,803.62.

The broader Topix edged down 0.1 percent to 1,671.95.

The Nikkei rose 1.1 per cent to 22,147.75, recouping much of Monday's 1.6 per cent drop.

Japan's TDK Corp. said Thursday that it was cutting 8,000 jobs and closing four plants overseas as the worsening economic crisis prompted f...

Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 0.9 percent on Friday, dragged down by Toyota Motor after the world's biggest automaker forecast its firs...