The Nikkei Stock Average fell back on the Tokyo stock market, closing down 2.73% from the previous business day at 64,611.15 yen. Weakness in U.S. stocks and a more than 5% drop in South Korea's KOSPI were met with aversion, while uncertainty over the Middle East situation raised caution over higher crude oil prices and rising interest rates, leading to widespread risk-off sentiment. With major tech companies in Japan, the U.S., and South Korea set to announce earnings next week, position-adjustment selling also emerged. Trading value on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market was 8.437834 trillion yen.