Tokyo shares drop by break on dividend payments
Tokyo shares eased off the previous day's rally Wednesday morning as more than half the firms on the Topix index traded without the right to a September dividend payment.
The Nikkei 225 index fell 1.54 percent, or 257.32 points, to 16,426.61, while the broader Topix fell 1.63 percent, or 22.03 points, to 1,327.19 by the lunch break.