Tokyo stocks opened slightly higher early on Monday morning as market sentiment was lifted by pre- weekend Wall Street gains.
Tokyo stocks dropped 0.59 percent Tuesday as market sentiment was cooled by the yen's appreciation and profit-taking after recent rallies.
The Japanese government rejected in its entirety a newspaper report that Tokyo has received from Pyongyang a list containing around 30 names of Japanese citizens living in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), some of whom had been kidnapped by DPRK agents in the 1970s and 1980s.
South Korea on Thursday slammed Japan for its repeated territorial claim over a pair of islets, called Dokdo here and Takeshima in Japan, lying halfway between the two countries.
China on Saturday announced the establishment of the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone, yet the United states and Japan's responses to it seemed, to a certain extent, ridiculous.
The Japanese government said Thursday it will lodge a formal complaint about a cartoon published in a French weekly newspaper depicting sumo wrestlers with extra limbs in front of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
South Korea lodged a strong protest on Friday against Japan's renewed territorial claim over Dokdo islets, known as Takeshima in Japan, lying halfway between Seoul and Tokyo.
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