The repatriation signal people actually trade, weekly and five days after the fact rather than six weeks. Sustained selling by Japanese investors removes a standing bid from the long end of the Treasury and European curves, and it shows here long before TIC records the stock change.
30 days to 4 Oct 2026 · -19,049 ×¥100m to 10,829 ×¥100m
This page shows the last 30 days. Japanese net buying of foreign bonds has 770 readings in the warehouse, back to 31 Dec 2011. A plan opens the rest of it, with CSV export and the analyst.
Source: Ministry of Finance Japan, "International Transactions in Securities" (https://www.mof.go.jp/english/policy/international_policy/reference/itn_transactions_in_securities/index.htm), used under the Public Data License (Version 1.0).
Japanese residents' net purchases of foreign bonds and notes during the week, in hundred millions of yen. Negative is repatriation. This is the life insurers and pension funds deciding whether a currency-hedged Treasury still pays, and it turns two months before TIC confirms it.
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