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Tokyo stocks surge in morning, Nikkei tops 40,000 line on tech shares
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks surged Tuesday morning, with the benchmark Nikkei index rising above the 40,000 line, as technology issues rose sharply Full article
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