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On the last trading day of the year, Japanese shares posted their best annual performance for more than four decades, leaving other major markets in the dust.

Japanese officials in Okinawa on Friday approved the long-stalled relocation of a controversial U.S. military base, a breakthrough that could remove a running sore in relations between Tokyo and Washington.

Tokyo has won the race to host the 2020 Olympic Games after the Japanese prime minister flew in to personally reassure voters that radioactive leaks from the Fukushima power plant would not create a health risk.

Japan's prime minister on Tuesday called on the US military to suspend helicopter operations in the country's southern Okinawa island chain after a fatal crash.