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Markets in Asia were up with a large gain for the Nikkei

The Nikkei rose 1.5% to 17,744.

Bridgestone was up .8% to 2490. Canon was up 1.9% to 6560. Fuji Film was up 1.4% to 5060. Hitachi was up 1.1% to 940. Honda was up .7% to 4190. NEC was up 2.3% to 670. NTT was down .5% to 617000. Docomo was down .5% to 215000. Sharp was up 1.9% to 2445. Softbank was down 2.8% to 2815. Sony was up 3.9% to 6440. Toshiba was up 2% to 873. Toyota was up 1.9% to 7540. Yahoo Japan was down .4% to 40000.

The Hang Seng was closed/

The KOSPI was up 1.1% to 1,502.

The Straits Times was up 1.6% to 3,400.

The Shanghai Composite was up 2.3% to 3,399.

Data from Reuters

Douglas A. McIntyre