Economy · Japan · Inflows

United States holds 1,320.8 bn of claims on Japan: 1,266.9 bn in securities, 53.9 bn in direct investment

Name: Money ladder: Japan, inflows
Creator: datasteg
License: https://money-flow.datasteg.com/en/sources#licences

Who puts money into this economy, through which instruments, and where its own money goes · United States holds 39.6% of the 3,734.2 bn of securities identified by holder (including 264.1 bn held by reserve managers and international organisations) · Portfolio end-2025 (half-yearly) · bank claims Q4 2025 (quarterly) · direct investment end-2024 · release 20261102.2 · method 1.5 · Updated 2 Nov 2026, 22:57 KST

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Latest 2026-11-02

Securities held abroad
3,734.2 bn
end-2025 · 72 holders · IMF PIP
Bank claims on Japan
1,474.1 bn
Q4 2025 · 611.7 bn in USD · BIS LBS
Gross external liabilities (incl. equity)
7,958.3 bn
debt 4,677.7 bn · equity 2,830.2 bn · derivatives 450.5 bn · Q4 2025 · IMF IIP
Net IIP (assets − liabilities)
+3,594.1 bn
11,552.4 bn assets − 7,958.3 bn liabilities · Q4 2025 · IMF IIP
FX reserves
1,178.4 bn
Sep 2026 · IMF international Reserves

The money ladder, Japan, inflows, USD bn

Positions at the newest period all channels share · width is the position · residence basis

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GlobalIssuing central banks, total assets (own scale)

Switzerland1,148.02026-07-31
China7,285.22026-06-30
Euro area6,739.22026-10-25
UK1,080.82026-07-31
Japan4,020.92026-07-31
United States6,745.62026-10-28

Source: BIS CBTA; ECB ILM; Federal Reserve via FRED

CountryBorder (IIP), liabilities, Q4 2025

Total7,958.3
Portfolio4,119.5
Direct374.7
Other3,013.6

Source: IMF IIP

CountryMade here

Central bank assets4,020.92026-07-31
Monetary base3,735.52026-02-28
Broad money10,452.12026-02-28
FX reserves1,178.42026-09-30

Source: BIS CBTA; IMF MFS; IMF IRFCL

Source: BIS central bank total assets; BIS locational banking statistics (Q4 2025); IMF direct Investment Positions by Counterpart Economy (formerly CDIS) (end-2024); IMF international Investment Position (Q4 2025); IMF international Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity; IMF monetary and Financial Statistics, monetary aggregates; IMF portfolio Investment Positions by Counterpart Economy (formerly CPIS) (end-2025). Calculations: datasteg money-flow, method 1.5, rules R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7. · Updated 2 Nov 2026

Coverage

Portfolio identified by holder90.6%

3,734.2 / 4,119.5 bn · of which reserve managers and international organisations 264.1 bn

Bank loans and deposits identified86.3%

1,271.8 / 1,474.1 bn · IIP loans 1,977.5 bn, deposits 491.7 bn · 1.8% of all reporters' claims come from reporters with no instrument split (Germany, Greece) and stay outside the ribbon (R5)

Direct investment identified100.0%

217.8 / 207.4 bn (DIP, the host's valuation) · IIP 341.4 bn (market value) · exceeds the total by 10.4 bn (coverage capped at 100%)

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Rules applied

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PassV3Every node adds up to its total
PassV5Central bank assets: (0.0% apart, 2026-07)
PassV5FX reserves: 1,287.4 bn vs 1,287.5 bn (0.0% apart, 2026-06)
PassV5portfolio_assets: 4,880.1 bn vs 4,917.8 bn (0.8% apart, 2025-12)
InformationV5fdi_liabilities: 207.4 bn vs 341.4 bn (39.2% apart, 2024-12)
InformationV5us_securities: 2,915.4 bn vs 2,461.6 bn (18.4% apart, 2025-12)
InformationV612 direct investment pairs: the two reports differ by more than 50%
InformationR5Bank ribbon: loans and deposits 1,474.1 bn only. All instruments 1,840.0 bn = loans and deposits + debt securities 188.4 bn (counted in portfolio debt) + derivatives and other 177.5 bn (a pool of its own)
WarningV14Direct investment: pair data exceed the IIP total by 10.4 bn (coverage capped at 100%)

Flows

Border transactions (BOP, published flows)

Portfolio
Q2 2026 · IMF BOP+39.2 bn
Direct
Q2 2026 · IMF BOP−0.2 bn
Other
Q2 2026 · IMF BOP−140.0 bn

Transactions, with no valuation change (R8); never added to positions.

Market context

Credit to the private sector
Q1 2026 · BIS TC7,326.4 bn
International debt securities
Q2 2026 · BIS DSS606.3 bn

Domestic sizes are context only; no foreign share is computed (M5).

Cite

Cite this view

datasteg (2026), “Money ladder: Japan, inflows”, datasteg money-flow, release 20261102.2, method 1.5, 2 November 2026, https://money-flow.datasteg.com/en/e/JPN?r=20261102.2&ch=debt%2Cbank&d=2026-11-02&dir=in.

Figure note: Source: datasteg money-flow (release 20261102.2, method 1.5), from BIS CBTA, BIS LBS, IMF DIP (CDIS), IMF IIP, IMF IRFCL, IMF MFS and IMF PIP (CPIS).

BibTeX

@misc{datasteg:mf:JPN-in:20261102.2,
  author       = {{datasteg}},
  title        = {Money ladder: {Japan}, inflows},
  howpublished = {datasteg money-flow, release 20261102.2, method 1.5},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-11-02},
  url          = {https://money-flow.datasteg.com/en/e/JPN?r=20261102.2&ch=debt%2Cbank&d=2026-11-02&dir=in},
  urldate      = {2026-11-02},
  note         = {Positions from BIS CBTA, BIS LBS, IMF DIP (CDIS), IMF IIP, IMF IRFCL, IMF MFS, IMF PIP (CPIS)}
}

The datasets' own citations (7)

Bank for International Settlements (2026), Central bank total assets, retrieved 27 October 2026, https://data.bis.org/topics/CBTA.
Bank for International Settlements (2026), Locational banking statistics, retrieved 30 October 2026, https://data.bis.org/topics/LBS.
International Monetary Fund (2026), Direct Investment Positions by Counterpart Economy (formerly CDIS), retrieved 27 October 2026, https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.STA:DIP.
International Monetary Fund (2026), International Investment Position, retrieved 27 October 2026, https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.STA:IIP.
International Monetary Fund (2026), International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity, retrieved 29 October 2026, https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.STA:IRFCL.
International Monetary Fund (2026), Monetary and Financial Statistics, monetary aggregates, retrieved 30 October 2026, https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.STA:MFS_MA.
International Monetary Fund (2026), Portfolio Investment Positions by Counterpart Economy (formerly CPIS), retrieved 27 October 2026, https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.STA:PIP.

The method's citation

datasteg (2026), “Money-flow methodology”, version 1.5, datasteg money-flow, 2 November 2026, https://money-flow.datasteg.com/en/method?v=1.5.

@misc{datasteg:mf:method:1.5,
  author       = {{datasteg}},
  title        = {Money-flow methodology},
  howpublished = {datasteg money-flow, version 1.5},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-11-02},
  url          = {https://money-flow.datasteg.com/en/method?v=1.5},
  urldate      = {2026-11-02}
}

Notes

Position. The stock outstanding at the end of a period, at market or book value as the source reports it.
Flow. The change over a period: a published transaction, or the difference of two positions (then valuation changes are mixed in).
Residence. Positions assigned to the economy where the holder or the bank office is located.
Nationality. Bank positions assigned to the economy where the bank's parent is headquartered (BIS CBS).
Coverage. The share of an economy's total for a channel that pair data identify by counterparty.
Financial centre (FC). An economy whose external positions are large relative to its GDP; holdings there often belong to investors elsewhere. The BIS offshore centres carry the tag FC; Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands and Switzerland, where funds are domiciled, carry FD: a holder there is a fund domicile, not an end investor.