Tokyo Stock Exchange Makes Gains, Mitsubishi Affiliated Co. Shares Up as Mitsubishi Motors Leads All Advancers (SANYY, NSANY, NMR, TM, TDK, HMC, MC, MLEA, EWJ, DCM, KNBWY)

Traders and investors on the Tokyo Stock Exchange seemed to have had enough of beating a dead horse -- Mitsubishi Motors -- as its shares were traded over 400 million times, ending the day up 9.83%. A total of 7 Mitsubishi affiliated stocks also finished higher today after being slammed in the prior trading session. Let's take a look at the closing numbers and today's advancers and decliners.

Nikkei 225: +79.10 (+0.56%), to close at 14,170.87, actually opened 55+ points lower and hit an intra-day low of 14,015.62 before finishing very strong in the afternoon session closing at its high point of the day

TOPIX: +13.87 (+0.94%), to close at 1,486.34, opened slightly lower and reached an intra-day low of 1,461.83 before finishing very strong in the afternoon session, also closing at its high point of the day

JASDAQ: -0.01 (-0.01%), to close at 108.52, similar to the Nikkei 225 and TOPIX it had a rough morning before finishing strong at its high for the day

Performance of Japanese stocks with ADRs today in Tokyo:
* Advancers: Sanyo Electric (ticker: SANYY) +6.07%, Nissan (ticker: NSANY) +3.49%, Nomura Holdings (ticker: NMR) +2.88%, Toyota (ticker: TM) +2.80%, TDK (ticker: TDK) +2.07%, Honda (ticker: HMC) +1.90%, Matsushita Electric Industrial (ticker: MC) +1.59%, Millea Holdings (ticker: MLEA) +1.49%

* Decliners: NTT DoCoMo (ticker: DCM) -1.55%, Kirin Brewery (ticker: KNBWY) -1.15%