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The Tokyo Stock Market opened for the first day of trading of the year with Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso ringing the bell during a ceremony on Monday. Aso expressed his hope for Tokyo's market to remain the biggest trading market in Asia while pushing through the country's economic revitalisation policy - known as Abenomics - to recover Japan's economy. Shinzo Abe was re-elected by Japan's parliament in November to serve another term as prime minister after winning a renewed mandate for his "Abenomics" strategies that helped revive the world's third-biggest economy. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 fell 1.06 percent to 17,263.95 in the first hour of the trading due to concerns over Greek politics. European stock markets drifted lower on Friday on the first trading day of the New Year as investors fretted over the state of the economic recovery in the 19-country eurozone, a further fall in the price of oil and the upcoming election in Greece. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/f3afc7c514b6080a0d500b0c78766212 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork