<div id="readability-page-1"><div>Japan's Nikkei share average fell on Tuesday as technology stocks tracked Wall Street's sharp overnight decline, with investors cautious ahead of chip giant Nvidia's quarterly results. The Nikkei fell 1% to 49,799.99 as of 0013 GMT, and the broader Topix slipped 0.67% at 3,325.23.U.S. stocks ended sharply lower on Monday, with the S&amp;P 500 and the Nasdaq closing below a key technical indicator for the first time since late April as investors braced for quarterly results from retailers and Nvidia and awaited a long-delayed U.S. jobs report this week. In Japan, technology investor SoftBank Group fell 3.5%. Chip-related Tokyo Electron and Advantest lost 2.46% and 0.35%, respectively. Retail stocks, which fell sharply in the previous session, rose. Department store Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings rose 1.1% and Ryohin Keikaku gained 1.1%. </div></div>

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Japan's Nikkei index fell 1% as technology stocks mirrored Wall Street's decline, with investors cautious ahead of Nvidia's quarterly results. The broader Topix slipped 0.67%. U.S. stocks also ended lower, impacting Japanese tech investors like SoftBank Group, which fell 3.5%. Chip-related stocks Tokyo Electron and Advantest also declined. However, retail stocks like Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings and Ryohin Keikaku rose 1.1%.

Japan's Nikkei falls as technology stocks track Wall Street lower