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Most markets in Asia were closed for holidays and the Nikkei was flat.

The Nikkei stood at 17,939. Bridgestone was down .6% to 2565. Canon was down .2% to 6620. Fuji Film was up .8% to 5250. Hitachi was down 1.2% to 839. Honda was down .8% to 4680. KDDI was up 2.1% to 937000. NEC was down .3% to 630. NTT was up .6% to 647000. Docomo was up 2.3% to 220000. Softbank was down 1.7% to 2880. Sony was down .3% to 6250. Toyota was up .4% to 8180. Yahoo Japan was up .1% to 45300.

The KOSPI was up .3% to 1,453.

Data from Reuters

Douglas A. McIntyre