Toyota Motor Corp. (7203), which gets almost 30 percent of its sales from North America, rose 2.1 percent in Tokyo. TDK Corp. (6762), a Japanese electronic equipment maker, rose 5 percent after saying it plans to buy back shares. James Hardie Industries NV, which makes most of its revenue selling home siding in the U.S., slid 0.6 percent in Sydney. BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP), the world’s No. 1 mining company, retreated 0.9 percent after metal prices fell.

The MSCI Asia Pacific Index (MXAP) rose 0.1 percent to 129.08 as of 9:34 a.m. in Tokyo, after falling as much as 0.5 percent. Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average (NKY) rose 1.4 percent, while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 Index fell 0.7 percent.

To contact the reporters on this story: Kana Nishizawa in Hong Kong at knishizawa5@bloomberg.net; Yoshiaki Nohara in Tokyo at ynohara1@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Nick Gentle at ngentle2@bloomberg.net

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