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Japan have very few shares outstanding.
Japan has 57,908 shares outstanding, while Sony has 907,278,326 shares outstanding. This creates an unbalanced relationship between buyers and sellers. Japan is that stockholders did not want to sell, yet there were many people who wanted to buy. It is just a typical supply and demand relationship. When you have few shares outstanding, the stock price is more likely to be influenced by this relationship than by actual company value.