Standard & Poor's launched the S&P Japan 500 - a broadly...

Standard & Poor's launched the S&P Japan 500 - a broadly representative investible index covering 88% of the Japanese equity market - in an alliance with Toyo Keizai. The S&P Japan 500 builds on the S&P/TOPIX 150 large-cap index by including two new market-cap indexes, the S&P Japan MidCap 100 and SmallCap 250. Toyo Keizai will provide database services for the maintenance of the S&P Japan 500, along with marketing support for the new indexes in Japan.