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Japans Nikkei sinks as tech shares track US peers lower

December 15, 2025

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO, - Japan's Nikkei share average dropped more than 1% on Monday as tech stocks tracked their Wall Street peers lower on lingering worries over stretched valuations. The Nikkei slid 1.2% to 50,220.15 by mid-morning, with artificial intelligence -focused startup investor SoftBank Group and chip-testing-tool maker Advantest - an Nvidia supplier - the biggest drags on the index by a wide margin. The broader, less tech-heavy Topix, by contrast, was down just 0.1% to 3,418.94.

Japans Nikkei sinks as tech shares track US peers lower

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Of the Nikkei's 225 components, risers and fallers were evenly split at 110, with five shares trading flat.
"This is not broad-based weakness in stocks across sectors," said Nomura Securities strategist Fumika Shimizu.
"It feels like a sector rotation" away from the big tech shares that have performed so strongly this year, she said.
SoftBank Group tumbled 6.3% and Advantest slumped 5.8%, between them accounting for 533 points of the Nikkei's total 671-point slide.
Fujikura, another darling of the AI trade in Japan, dropped 3.7%.

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Japans Nikkei sinks as tech shares track US peers lower

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