The Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose 49.46 points to 8815.36 on Tuesday, passing the 8800 mark for the first time since November.
Nintendo Co. (7974), a Japanese maker of video-game players that gets 34 percent of its sales in Europe, rose 1.8 percent after the euro advanced against the yen. Elpida Memory Inc. (6665) advanced 3.1 percent after a newspaper reported the chipmaker is in talks with Micron Technology Inc. and Nanya Technology Corp. about a three-way merger. Inpex Corp. (1605), Japan’s No. 1 energy explorer, advanced 2 percent after the price of crude oil increased.
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