India, June 26 -- The Japanese stock market is rising on Thursday despite the mixed cues overnight from Wall Street, with a weaker yen lifting exporters' shares. Investors are cautious as they look ahead to the Trump-Xi Jinping meeting at the G-20 summit later this week.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 Index is adding 73.98 points or 0.35 percent to 21,160.57, after touching a high of 21,177.98 earlier. Japanese shares fell on Wednesday.
The major exporters are mostly higher on a weaker yen. Mitsubishi Electric is rising more than 1 percent, Panasonic is advancing almost 1 percent and Canon is adding 0.3 percent, while Sony is edging down 0.1 percent.
Among tech stocks, Tokyo Electron is rising more than 3 percent and Advantest is higher by alm...