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Flowsweekly×¥100m

Foreign net buying of Japanese bonds

Foreign demand for JGBs, weekly. When the Bank of Japan is moving and foreigners are the marginal buyer, this is the series that says whether the new yield is clearing, and it feeds straight back into global term premium.

Latest
-13,418 ×¥100m
As of
26 Sept 2026
Standard deviations
-1.43
Percentile
8th percentile

30 days to 4 Oct 2026 · -13,418 ×¥100m to 22,362 ×¥100m

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This page shows the last 30 days. Foreign net buying of Japanese 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.

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Source

Ministry of Finance Japan

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).

Non-residents' net purchases of Japanese bonds and notes during the week, in hundred millions of yen. Foreign demand for JGBs against a moving Bank of Japan is what makes the Japanese curve a global story rather than a domestic one.

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