Japan, noted Tokyo Stock Exchange head Atsushi Saito in a speech in early July, has 3, 000 companies that have been around for more than 200 years, as many as the rest of the world combined.

FORBES: Beer And Bailouts

As local and international investors have fled Japan's stock market, some 40% of the 1, 500 companies that are the bluest chips of Japan (the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange) trade below breakup value (a price-to-book value of less than one).

FORBES: Gaijin grave dancers

The Tokyo Stock Exchange has begun merging with Japan's tiny regional exchanges, such as those in Niigata and Hiroshima.

ECONOMIST: Slow financial starvation

The last time that the Tokyo stock exchange recorded an annual loss was 1990, the year Japan's economic bubble burst and property prices collapsed.

BBC: Stock markets see red over 2000

The bank holding company trades on the New York Stock Exchange but is majority-owned by Japan's Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ.

FORBES: Dirty Dineros

The Tokyo Stock Exchange has agreed to use the new standard for corporate actions with the Japan Securities Depository Center (JASDEC) beginning in the spring of 2014.

FORBES: Is SWIFT Lagging On Corporate Actions Or Serving Its Global Membership?

The figures from the Tokyo Stock Exchange show that individuals accounted for 36% of the total value of trades in Japan's major stock markets, down from 39% the week before.

WSJ: 5.2% Drop Takes Tokyo Stocks Into a Correction