Ah, the fateful day of April 9, 2025, when Japanโs Nikkei 225 index plummeted over 3% to a staggering 32,010.93! It seems the Wall Street ghosts have decided to haunt the Land of the Rising Sun, as the broader Topix index also succumbed to the gravitational pull of despair, falling 3% to 2,360.32. Technology stocks, those fragile little creatures, were particularly hard hit; Advantest took a 9% tumble, Tokyo Electron tripped over its own wires with a 4.85% drop, and SoftBank Group, bless its heart, fell by 5.96%. Investors, with furrowed brows and trembling hands, are now convinced that the impending 104% U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports might just be the final nail in the coffin of global economic growth. Who knew tariffs could be so dramatic? ๐ญ