Tokyo stock prices have bottomed out and started to rise, thanks to the Bank of Japan's quantitative easing of monetary conditions.
The market has also reacted positively to the inauguration of the reform-oriented Cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
Conventional wisdom holds that the stock market accelerates its upward trend when it rises some 30 percent from its bottom.
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