End of a good year

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Japanese Paralympic athlete Mami Sato pose before she rings a bell during a ceremony marking the end of trading in 2013 at the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) in Tokyo on Monday. The Nikkei stock average rose to a fresh six-year high to close out 2013 with a 57% annual gain, its biggest in more than 40 years on the back of aggressive economic stimulus by Abe. Abe was the first Japanese prime minister to attend the ceremony to mark the end of trading.

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