Tokyo bourse contingency plan slammed after full-day closure

Critics say market needs to be resilient to software bugs

TOSHIHIRO SATO, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- The full-day shutdown of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday highlighted not only the fragility of the infrastructure underpinning Japan's markets, but how the bourse's emergency response plan failed to specify how to restart the market after the glitches were fixed.

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