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Japan stocks dive as benchmark bond yield spikes

A money trader works under a screen indicating the U.S. dollar is traded at 103.08 yen at a foreign exchange company in Tokyo, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The dollar fell to 103 yen level. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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Japan stocks div... A money trader works under a screen indicating the U.S. dollar is traded at 103.08 yen at a foreign exchange company in Tokyo, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The dollar fell to 103 yen level. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
Pakistani cricke... In this handout photo provided by the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital Pakistan's cricketer turned politician Imran Khan, leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party leaves the hospital in Lahore, Pakistan on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Khan left the hospital Wednesday, more than two weeks after he suffered serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift at a campaign event, a spokesman said. (AP Photo/Shaukat Khanum Hospital)
Building materia... FILE - In this Sunday, May 12, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi soldiers stand amid the rubble of the garment factory building that collapsed on April 24 as they continue search operation in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. A government investigation said poor quality construction materials and building code violations contributed to the collapse of building housing garment factories last month in Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous, File)
North Korean lea... In this photo provided by China's official Xinhua News Agency, Wang Jiarui, right, the head of the Chinese leadership's international affairs office, meets with North Korea's Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, a senior Workers’ Party official and the military’s top political officer, left, in Beijing, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un veered from threats of nuclear war to tentative diplomacy by sending a trusted confidant to China on Wednesday, a high-profile outreach to Beijing’s new leadership at a time of strained ties between the allies. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Ding Lin) NO SALES
Markets choppy a... A man under an umbrella walks past an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, May 20, 2013. Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.4 percent to 15,352.84 as evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push Asian stock markets higher Monday. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Japan approves j... In this May 5, 2010 file photo, fathers that lost their children to spousal abduction to Japan hold photos of their children during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Japan’s parliament has approved joining an international child custody treaty amid foreign concerns that Japanese mothers can take children away from foreign fathers without recourse. The upper house of parliament on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, voted to join the 1980 Hague Convention on international child abduction following passage by the more powerful lower house last month.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Japanese climber... A team of climbers led by 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura stand on the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Miura on Thursday became the oldest man to reach the top of Mount Everest, a Nepali official and Miura's Tokyo-based support team said. The photo was taken with a telephoto lens from an altitude of 5,550 meters (18,208 feet). It is not clear which of the climbers in the photo is Miura. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
Weak yen a help ... In this Dec. 20, 2012 photo, trucks for export park at a port in Yokohama, west of Tokyo. A steady decline in the yen is proving a godsend for exporters such as Toyota and has won solid support from Japan’s main trading partners, who are betting the impact on their own currencies will be offset by gains from a recovery in the world’s third-largest economy. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Malaysian charge... Police stand guard outside a court room in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Prosecutors filed a sedition charge Thursday against a student activist who urged Malaysians to engage in street protests against the government over claims of election fraud. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Myanmar Muslims ... President Barack Obama gestures toward Myanmar's President Thein Sein during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013. Thein Sein is the first Myanmar president to be welcomed to the White House in almost 47 years. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)