The following is a list of companies whose shares may move on Japanese markets Monday. Stock prices are as of Friday's close.
Stock symbols are in parentheses after the company name.
The company, which makes 60 percent of the world's memory-chip testing machines, said it expects to post a group net loss of 5 billion yen for its fiscal year ended March 31, reversing a 4 billion yen profit forecast. Advantest rose 810 to 6,680. Daiwa Bank rose 7 to 137. The former state- owned railway plans to write off up to 100 billion yen in losses on real estate and stock investments to improve its financial condition, the Nihon Keizai Newspaper said, without citing sources. East Japan fell 3,000 to 707,000.