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A man works at the Tokyo Stock Exchange after the market reopened in Tokyo on Oct. 2 following a major system outage the previous day. © Reuters

JADA NAGUMO, Nikkei staff writer

October 2, 2020 09:34 JST

Updated on October 2, 2020 16:34 JST

TOKYO -- The Tokyo Stock Exchange reopened trading on Friday, bringing some relief to market participants who were unable to execute trades on Thursday due to a system outage that halted all activity.

Trading began at 9 a.m. as normal and without limits, based on Wednesday's close as starting prices. The TSE replaced its equipment that caused the system failure and confirmed that the trading system worked without problems.