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Japan's Treasury holdings

Japan is the largest foreign owner of the US debt. A sustained fall here is the balance-sheet confirmation of what the weekly Japanese flow data says first, and it is the number quoted whenever the question is who stops buying if hedging costs stay where they are.

No readings in the last 30 days.

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This page shows the last 30 days. Japan's Treasury holdings has 175 readings in the warehouse, back to 31 Jan 2012. A plan opens the rest of it, with CSV export and the analyst.

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Source

U.S. Department of the Treasury, Treasury International Capital System

Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Treasury International Capital (TIC) System, "Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities".

Estimated Japanese holdings of US Treasury bills, bonds and notes at the end of the month, in billions of US dollars. Attribution is by custodian rather than by owner, so a Japanese investor holding through a European custodian is counted there instead.

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