Japan buys ¥169.2bn net of foreign stocks in week to Sept 11

The reversal matters less for its size than for what it says about Japanese institutional appetite for overseas equity exposure, which had briefly turned to net selling. A single week's flip is weak evidence of a durable shift, so the open question is whether this buying persists or was a one-off rebalancing after the prior outflow. The signal to watch is whether Japanese flows into foreign stocks continue to offset the selling pressure seen the week before.