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September 3, 2026

Nikkei Closed 64,214.48, Hanshin Won 7-4, and Friday 9:00 Has Not Opened

Friday’s Japan Daily Update — twenty-four stories on Thursday’s Nikkei 64,214.48, a TOPIX print at 4,102.04, Hanshin’s 7-4 at Jingu, and Section 338’s seventeenth morning. Friday 9:00 JST has not opened.

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Thursday Tokyo cash is in: Nikkei 64,214.48. Hanshin won 7-4 at Jingu. Friday 9:00 JST has not opened.

Nikkei Thursday 64,214.48, down 0.17 percent, a fourth straight decline. TOPIX 4,102.04, up 0.50 percent. Friday 9:00 JST has not opened.
METI’s 28.2 yen liter subsidy ran through August 5 and is not in force. Thursday oil about October WTI $91.30. The September 4 bond plan has not priced on this clock.
Thursday Hanshin 7, Yakult 4 at Jingu, 18:00, 27,930. Ito 2–2. Sato’s 33rd and 34th. Wednesday’s 5-3 is prior. A U.S. 2-1 is not this paper’s entertainment object.
A U.S. Thursday S&P 7,747.71 is in on this clock. Nvidia closed $228.45. Anysphere closed August 14 as a U.S. object.
Wright’s mines remain geography. Section 338’s seventeenth morning is not a Diet statute.
Cursor is a SpaceX subsidiary. Super Micro’s unused shoe did not print in Tokyo. TSE has not opened Friday.

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