Foreigners Net Sellers of Japanese Stocks for 5th Week .
Tokyo, Aug. 31 (Jiji Press)–Foreign investors were net sellers of Japanese stocks for the fifth straight week last week, a Tokyo Stock Exchange report showed Thursday. In the week from Aug. 21 through Friday, overseas investors posted a selling excess of 152,904 million yen, down from the previous week’s 205,710 million yen, according to the report on stock transactions via 52 brokerage firms on the TSE and the Nagoya Stock Exchange, Japan’s two major cash stock markets. In the reporting week, the key 225-issue Nikkei average fell 17.8 points, or 0.09 pct, to end at 19,452.61, weighed down by geopolitical concerns over North Korea. JIJI PRESS