TOKYO -- Companies poised to benefit from the changes wrought by the coronavirus pandemic have emerged as drivers of a budding recovery in Japan's stock market.
The Nikkei Stock Average rose 422 points, or 2%, Thursday to close above 20,000 for the first time in nearly two months and recover more than 20% from a low plumbed in March.
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