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 TOKYO (AP) - Japanese stocks dropped Friday for a second straight session on selling of blue chips, hurt by an overnight decline on Wall Street.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index shed 183.24 points, or 1.03 percent, to finish at 17,553.72 points on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. On Thursday, the index slipped 0.06 percent.
Blue chips like Sony moved lower, as did machinery and real estate shares, following Wall Street's overnight drop in the U.S., a major export market for Japan. Weaker-than-expected earnings forecasts also hit some shares like Casio Computer Co.
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