A Japanese man looks into a glass projection of newly-elected Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi over a stock price quotation board outside a brokerage house in Tokyo April 26, 2001. Japanese shares ended at a three-month high on broad-based buying amid strong hopes the new cabinet will provide Koizumi with the line-up he needs to enact necessary reforms. The Nikkei average closed 145.53 or 1.05 percent higher at 13,973.03, its highest closing since January 23.

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