Mumbai, May 13 -- The Japanese stock market traded sharply higher extending the gains in the previous three sessions, following the broadly positive cues from Wall Street overnight, with the Nikkei 225 moving above the 38,300 level with gains across all sectors led by strong gains in technology and financial stocks. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Index is up 667.39 points (1.77%) at 38,311.65. Japanese shares ended modestly higher.

SoftBank Group gained more than 2% and Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing is added more than 1%. Among automakers, Honda is advanced almost 1% and Toyota is increased almost 4%. In the tech space, Advantest is marginally rose almost 1%, Screen Holdings surged almost 3% and Tokyo Electron is spiked almost 5%. In the bank...