Stock prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on the 2nd rose.
The Nikkei Stock Average, the closing price on the 2nd, is 28,362.17 yen, which is 271.12 yen higher than the 1st.
Tokyo Stock Price Index = Topics rose 17.18 to 1847.02.
The daily trading volume was 1,168.98 million shares.
Market officials said, "There is a widespread view that speculative buying and selling by individual investors in the New York stock market has settled down, and buy orders have spread to a wide range of stocks in the Tokyo market. The department's automobile-related stocks were also bought. "