Investing.com – Japan stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Paper & Pulp, Railway & Bus and Real Estate sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 rose 1.60%.
The best performers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Yokogawa Electric Corp. (T:6841), which rose 5.63% or 107.0 points to trade at 2008.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Fujifilm Holdings Corp. (T:4901) added 5.60% or 289.0 points to end at 5446.0 and Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (T:7003) was up 4.59% or 40.0 points to 911.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Yahoo Japan Corp. (T:4689), which fell 1.09% or 5.0 points to trade at 453.0 at the close. Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. (T:5713) declined 0.98% or 34.0 points to end at 3433.0 and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (T:9107) was down 0.95% or 17.0 points to 1770.0.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tokyo Stock Exchange by 3086 to 538 and 167 ended unchanged.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was unchanged 0.00% to 16.87 a new 1-month high.
Crude oil for February delivery was down 0.62% or 0.39 to $62.88 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in March fell 0.71% or 0.49 to hit $68.42 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.16% or 2.45 to trade at $1571.25 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.04% to 108.31, while EUR/JPY fell 0.23% to 121.06.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 96.445.