In Japan, stocks are up thanks to a weak yen, but elsewhere in Asia, stock markets are falling behind Wall Street.
Asian the stock market has traded without a unified direction on Friday.
In Japan, stocks were rising, driven by the weak yen. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei 225 index closed up 0.3 percent.
Elsewhere, the stock markets have been falling in the wake of the United States.
In China, the CSI 300 index, which follows large companies, was down 0.3 percent this morning Finnish time. The Hang Seng index of the Hong Kong stock exchange had weakened by 0.5 percent.
Also in South Korea, the Kospi index closed down 0.4 percent.
On Wall Street in the United States, the broad S&P 500 weakened on Thursday for the fourth day in a row and ended up down 0.3 percent. The technology-focused Nasdaq index weakened by 0.6 percent, but the large-cap Dow Jones managed to narrowly turn positive.
Uncertainty interest rate development has weighed on the stock market in the first week of the year.
The minutes of the US central bank's December meeting, published on Wednesday, showed that a large majority of the members of its open market committee, which decides on monetary policy, want to keep the key interest rate unchanged for a while longer. This may mean that the central bank may not start easing monetary policy in line with market expectations in March.
Just a week ago, the market priced in an 85 percent probability that the central bank would start lowering interest rates by March. Now the probability has dropped to 65 percent.
On Friday, interest will focus on the December employment figures published in the United States. In a poll by the news agency Reuters, economists forecast that non-agricultural jobs increased by 170,000 and the unemployment rate rose to 3.8 percent from 3.7 percent in November.
Futures predict a bearish opening for Europe and an uneven opening for the United States.
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