Japan markets enter 'Golden Week' with glittering prospects

Tokyo

THE Tokyo stock market is going into Japan's annual "Golden Week" holiday, which begins Wednesday, at a six-week high and with analysts projecting a series of upbeat corporate earnings reports. These in turn, they say, should drive the market even higher.

This is despite the threat of some kind of reaction on the part of North Korea to the gathering of a Japan-supported "armada" (as US President Donald Trump has termed it) of US naval vessels close to the Korean peninsula