The higher they go, the farther they'll fall.
That's exactly what has happened on the Tokyo stock market.
As of Friday, the Topix index of all shares listed on the Tokyo market's first section was down 21 percent since the beginning of the year and the 225-issue Nikkei average down 22 percent in a turnaround from their respective 58 percent and 37 percent rises in all of last year.
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