the likes of tdk, isuzu all falling. one standout was toshiba, rising over 7%, ending 7.7% after the company announced a new board in a bid to improve its corporate governance and to renew investor sentiment after some accounting scandals. still, with commodity prices continuing to fall, the likes of mitsui mining as well as sumitomo metal and mining ended at new lows. concerns over growth in china really remains one of the major obstacles for any positive sentiment, if you will. that's all for me. back to you in the studio. >> thanks very much. >>> china's slowing economy is making japanese companies jittery. they cut their amount of direct investment in china from january to july by more than 20% from a year earlier. officials at china's ministry of commerce say direct investment from japan was about $2 billion. that's down 24% compared with last year. but total inbound foreign direct investment was up nearly 8%. much of the growth came from europe. an executive at a japanese corporate association in china says his com