: On Monday, it climbed 152.38 points, according to The Japan Times. The Topix ended down 32.40 points, or 2.33 percent, at 1,360.23, after rising 18.44 points the previous day. The Nikkei lost 402.01 points, or 2.35 percent, to finish at 16,708.90. Both indexes lost ground for the first time in three market days. The market was also weighed by the yen rise against the dollar and a drop of Shanghai stocks. Tokyo stocks met with heavy selling from the outset of the day trading, after the U.S. Dow Jones industrial average shed over 200 points on Monday on the back of a renewed fall in crude oil prices.
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