Japanese shares close 0.81% lower

It's complete bull and randomness. Just like gambling at casinos, there's some skill BUT the house always wins. The house in Investment terms means randomness of the market because of unexpected shocks like wars, mothernature, but most importantly carelessness of people in charge of companies like tepco, jal, ... Just a very big scam buy the investment industry. Gamblers always lose, so I suggest everyone stop giving companies their hard earned money to piss away. Keep it in a bank. Buy land. let those companies reinvest their earnings instead of giving them away as bonuses

The speculation could drive up the Nikkei in the coming week

hard to belive because Nikkei has lost 3.8% This Week - Worst Weekly performance in 8 months !