A businesswoman wraps her arms around her son while praying for a good business year as worshippers gather at the Kanda shrine in Tokyo on the first business day after the New Year holiday yesterday. Tokyo stocks rose 1.16 per cent yesterday morning, starting the new year in an upbeat mood on better-than-expected economic data globally.

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