TOKYO - The benchmark Nikkei stock index finished the year down 9.4 percent on Friday, its first yearly fall in four years, as Russia's war in Ukraine and fears over a potential global recession as the result of aggressive monetary tightening by central banks offset the impact of solid corporate earnings with the yen's historic fall.
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