A man walks past an electric market board in central Tokyo. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average lost 39.62 points, or 0.5 percent, to close 8,836.8

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A man walks past an electric market board in central Tokyo. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average lost 39.62 points, or 0.5 percent, to close 8,836.80. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Koji Sasahara

A man walks past an electric market board in central Tokyo. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average lost 39.62 points, or 0.5 percent, to close 8,836.80. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Koji Sasahara