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Japanese shares reversed course to end marginally higher on Friday, as optimism around domestic corporate outlook outweighed investors' caution ahead of the country's general election.
Japan's Nikkei share average rallied strongly on Tuesday, fuelled by earnings optimism and following overnight Wall Street gains that took the Dow and S&P 500 to record highs.
Japan's Nikkei jumped to a more than two-week high on Friday and posted its first weekly gain in four, after overnight gains on Wall Street boosted technology heavyweights ahead of their earnings results.
Japanese stocks dropped on Monday on disappointing earnings, with semiconductor-related shares among the hardest hit, taking their cue from falls in U.S. tech firms on poor earnings and concerns about the Federal Reserve's tapering.
Japan's Nikkei edged up on Friday after debt-ridden developer China Evergrande Group made a bond payment, but uncertainties around U.S. interest rate hikes, and caution ahead of the nation's general election and corporate earnings season capped gains.