Japan's stocks rose on Wednesday in choppy trade, erasing its earlier losses after China’s relatively benign trade data offset investor nerves over the strong yen.

    The Nikkei rose 0.9% to 16,830.92 after earlier traversing positive and negative territory. The broader Topix gained 0.8% to 1,350.97 and the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 added 0.8% to 12,174.51.