Visitors pray at the start of the new business year at Kanda Myojin Shrine in Tokyo January 4, 2008. Asian stocks fell on Friday, led by a 4 percent slump in Tokyo's Nikkei, on fears a U.S. economic slowdown, surging oil prices, and a weakening dollar would hit the region's export-reliant economies. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (JAPAN)