Skip to content
ENTITY PROFILE / KNOWLEDGE GRAPH

Bank of Japan's ETF holdings

RSS

Bank of Japan owns Bank of Japan's ETF holdings, which it brought into its monetary easing program in 2010 to encourage investment in an economy struggling with weak demand and deflation. In a November 2010 explanation of the ETF program, then-Governor Masaaki Shirakawa discussed potential losses and the effects of the central bank's deeper involvement in allocating resources across companies and industries. Bank of Japan's ETF holdings provide broad stock market exposure to Japan, as the purchases were meant to support prices in Japan's market and avoid disruptions to it. Bank of Japan ended new ETF purchases in March 2024, leaving the existing investments on its balance sheet. Bank of Japan began selling Bank of Japan's ETF holdings in January 2026 at an existing pace of about ¥330 billion annually at book value. On Oct. 30, 2026, the Bank of Japan approved faster ETF disposals from January 2027 at about ¥860 billion annually at book value (up from ¥330 billion), about 2.6 times faster than usual, corresponding to about ¥2.46 trillion at market value and roughly one-thousandth (about 0.1%) of market trading value, reducing the estimated time to dispose of its end-September holdings from about 112 years to about 43 years.· Entity summary generated by Graphiti

RELATIONS
6Relations
CURRENT
5Current
EVENTS
1Events
REPORTS
1Source reports
KNOWLEDGE ATLAS0 entities · 0 relations
No public neighbors yet
Explore all published links of a node; previously discovered relations remain visible.

Relation timeline

BY VALID-FROM DATE
  1. Bank of JapanAPPROVED FASTER DISPOSAL OFBank of Japan's ETF holdings

    On Oct. 30, 2026, the Bank of Japan approved faster ETF disposals from January 2027 at about ¥860 billion annually at book value (up from ¥330 billion), about 2.6 times faster than usual, corresponding to about ¥2.46 trillion at market value and roughly one-thousandth (about 0.1%) of market trading value, reducing the estimated time to dispose of its end-September holdings from about 112 years to about 43 years.

    Current1 sourceBank of Japan
  2. Bank of JapanBEGAN SELLINGBank of Japan's ETF holdings

    Bank of Japan began selling Bank of Japan's ETF holdings in January 2026 at an existing pace of about ¥330 billion annually at book value.

    Ended 2027-01-011 sourceBank of Japan
  3. Bank of JapanSTOPPED PURCHASINGBank of Japan's ETF holdings

    Bank of Japan ended new ETF purchases in March 2024, leaving the existing investments on its balance sheet.

    Current1 sourceBank of Japan
  4. Masaaki ShirakawaDISCUSSEDBank of Japan's ETF holdings

    In a November 2010 explanation of the ETF program, then-Governor Masaaki Shirakawa discussed potential losses and the effects of the central bank's deeper involvement in allocating resources across companies and industries.

    Current1 sourceMasaaki Shirakawa
  5. Bank of JapanOWNSBank of Japan's ETF holdings

    Bank of Japan owns Bank of Japan's ETF holdings, which it brought into its monetary easing program in 2010 to encourage investment in an economy struggling with weak demand and deflation.

    Current1 sourceBank of Japan
  6. Bank of Japan's ETF holdingsPROVIDES STOCK MARKET EXPOSURE TOJapan

    Bank of Japan's ETF holdings provide broad stock market exposure to Japan, as the purchases were meant to support prices in Japan's market and avoid disruptions to it.

    Current1 sourceJapan

Relations are facts Graphiti extracted from reports, not verbatim quotes. An end date means later reporting showed the relation no longer holds.

Events 1

Source reports 1