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Column13/01/2026
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market:An Analysis for 2025
In December 2025, business corporations, foreign investors and individuals were net buyers, while trust banks were net selle...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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Column09/12/2025
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market:An Analysis for November 2025
The TOPIX rose for the eighth consecutive month, while the Nikkei declined for the first time in eight months.Business corpora...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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09/12/2025
Proportion of Extreme Commuters by Prefecture in Japan:Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
A research team at Stanford University reported that the number of commuters traveling more than 120 kilometers one way rose by ...
Keiko Iwasaki
Insurance Research Department
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08/12/2025
Average Commuting Time by Prefecture in Japan: Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Amid growing interest in relocating from urban to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic and rising housing prices in major c...
Keiko Iwasaki
Insurance Research Department
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18/11/2025
Japan’s Economic Outlook for Fiscal Years 2025-2027 (November 2025)
Real GDP in the July–September quarter of 2025 recorded negative growth for the first time in six quarters, declining by ...
Taro Saito
Economic Research Department
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Column11/11/2025
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market:An Analysis for October 2025
The Nikkei 225 rose for the seventh consecutive month, reaching the 50,000 level for the first time in history.Foreign investo...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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Column07/10/2025
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market:An Analysis for September 2025
In September 2025, the Nikkei 225 rose for the sixth consecutive month, reaching a new all-time high. In early September, the ma...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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Column08/09/2025
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market:An Analysis for August 2025
In August 2025, the Nikkei 225 rose for the fifth consecutive month, reaching a new all-time high. In early August, the index tem...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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18/08/2025
Japan’s Economic Outlook for Fiscal Years 2025-2026 (August 2025)
Real GDP in the April–June quarter of 2025 grew by 0.3% from the previous quarter (1.0% on an annualized basis), marking the fift...
Taro Saito
Economic Research Department
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Column08/08/2025
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market:An Analysis for July 2025
In July 2025, the Nikkei 225 rose for the fourth consecutive month. In early July, the market was weighed down by uncertainty ove...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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Column08/07/2025
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market:An Analysis for June 2025
In June 2025, the Nikkei 225 rose for the third consecutive month. In early June, the market was weighed down by renewed U.S.-Chi...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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Column10/06/2025
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market: An Analysis for May 2025
In May 2025, the Nikkei 225 rose for the second consecutive month, supported by a U.S.-China agreement to reduce additional tar...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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19/05/2025
Japan’s Economic Outlook for Fiscal Years 2025-2026 (May 2025)
Real gross domestic product (GDP) in the January–March quarter of 2025 posted a decline of 0.2% from the previous quarter (down ...
Taro Saito
Economic Research Department
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09/05/2025
Japan Real Estate Market Quarterly Review-First Quarter 2025
In Q1 2025, Japan’s real GDP is expected to decrease by 0.2% q-o-q (annualized 0.9% decrease), as a surge in imports dragged down ...
Hiroto Iwasa
Financial Research Department
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Column08/05/2025
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market:An Analysis for April 2025
In April 2025, the Nikkei 225 plunged at the beginning of the month following the announcement of reciprocal tariffs by U.S. Pre...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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Column08/04/2025
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market: An Analysis for March 2025
In March 2025, the Nikkei 225 began the month on a soft note, declining from the previous month’s close of 37,155, following the e...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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Column10/03/2025
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market: An Analysis for February 2025
In February 2025, the Nikkei 225 started the month with a decline of over 1,000 yen from the previous month’s close of 39,572, fol...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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18/02/2025
Japan’s Economic Outlook for Fiscal Years 2024-2026 (February 2025)
In the October–December quarter of 2024, real GDP grew by 0.7% from the previous quarter (equivalent to an annualized rate of 2....
Taro Saito
Economic Research Department
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12/02/2025
Japan Real Estate Market Quarterly Review-Fourth Quarter 2024
In Q4 2024, Japan’s real GDP is expected to increase by 0.3% q-o-q (annualized 1.0% increase), marking the third consecutive qu...
Makoto Sakuma
Financial Research Department
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Column12/02/2025
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market: An Analysis for January 2025
In January 2025, the Nikkei 225 briefly surpassed 40,000, but declined mid-month due to rising U.S. interest rates, stricter s...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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Column15/01/2025
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market:An Analysis for December 2024
In December 2024, the Nikkei Stock Average initially rose to 39,248 on the 3rd, buoyed by the strength in U.S. high-tech stocks. ...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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Column10/12/2024
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market:An Analysis for November 2024
In November, the Nikkei Stock Average initially plummeted to 38,053 at the start of the month due to the decline in U.S. high-tec...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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18/11/2024
Japan’s Economic Outlook for Fiscal Years 2024-2026 (November 2024)
In the July–September quarter of 2024, Japan’s real GDP grew by 0.9% on an annualized basis from the previous quarter, marking t...
Taro Saito
Economic Research Department
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Column12/11/2024
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market:An Analysis for October 2024
In October, the Nikkei Stock Average rose in the first half of the month as the yen weakened against the dollar, supported by stro...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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11/11/2024
Japan Real Estate Market Quarterly Review-Third Quarter 2024
In Q3 2024, Japan’s real GDP is expected to increase by 0.2% q-o-q (annualized 0.8% increase), the second consecutive gr...
Yoshida Tasuku
Financial Research Department
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Column08/10/2024
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market: An Analysis for September 2024
In the first half of September, the Nikkei Stock Average was impacted by U.S. economic indicators, which heightened uncertain...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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Column10/09/2024
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market: An Analysis for August 2024
In early August, concerns about an additional rate hike by the Bank of Japan, worse-than-expected U.S. employment statistics...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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16/08/2024
Japan's Economic Outlook for Fiscal Years 2024 and 2025 (August 2024)
Real GDP increased by 3.1% in the April-June quarter of 2024 on an annualized basis from the previous quarter, marking the first ...
Taro Saito
Economic Research Department
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Column13/08/2024
Investors Trading Trends in Japanese Stock Market:An Analysis for July 2024
The Nikkei Stock Average in July showed a "back-and-forth" movement, rising in the first half and falling in the second half.In ...
Chizuru Morishita
Financial Research Department
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09/08/2024
Japan Real Estate Market Quarterly Review-Second Quarter 2024
In Q2 2024, Japan’s real GDP is expected to increase by 0.8% q-o-q (annualized 3.0% increase), the first positive growth in two q...
Watanabe Fumiko
Financial Research Department
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Shingo Ide
New Equity Index May Overcome Problems of Capitalization-Weighted Indexing
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Yasuhide Yajima
The U.S. Dollar’s Amazing Strength in the Deepening Financial Crisis
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Kanako Amano
An International Comparison and Analysis of Japan's High Suicide Rate
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Sayuri Ito
What is the prospects of trilateral cooperation to the WTO reform?
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Japan’s Economic Outlook for Fiscal Years 2025-2027 (November 2025)















