Tokyo’s markets were mixed Tuesday.
While the Nikkei 225 added 0.71 percent to 15,877.67 and the Topix index gained 0.47 percent to 1,532.39, the Mothers market of small and mid-caps fell 2.87 percent to 656.29.
After several days of declines, the real estate sector was higher, gaining 3.5 percent as a whole on new figures showing that office rental rates were up in central Tokyo in August.
Mitsui Fudosan (TYO: 8801; NAS: MDSFF) was 3.53 percent higher to ¥2,640, while Sumitomo Realty & Development (TYO: 8830) gained 4.1 percent to ¥3,290 and Mitsubishi Estate (TYO: 8802) added 4.3 percent to ¥2,810.
Banks were higher as well.
Mitsubishi UFJ (TYO: 8306; NYSE: MTU) was 1 percent higher to ¥1.04 million, while Mizuho Financial (TYO: 8411; NYSE: MFG) was up 1.1 percent to ¥664,000.
Computer game publisher Capcom (TYO: 9697) added 6.3 percent to ¥2,855 on a broker upgrade based on its sales of games for the Wii console.
The automobile manufacturing sector was slightly lower, falling 0.2 percent as a whole even though the yen had weakened slightly against the US dollar.
Toyota Motor (TYO: 7203.T; NYSE: TM; LSE: TYT) dropped 0.2 percent to ¥6,430, while Honda Motor (TYO: 7267; NYSE: HMC) was 0.8 percent lower to ¥3,700.