The broader Topix index finished 3.19 points, or 0.12 percent, lower at 2,576.54. On the top-tier Prime Market, decliners were led by pharmaceutical, marine transportation and precision instrument ...

Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper by print circulation, said it plans to introduce a new stock index next March that it sees as an alternative to the widely followed Nikkei 225 index ...