While major domestic players continued to unload their equity holdings, foreign investors remained net buyers of Japanese stocks last week for the fourth straight week.
Nonresidents bought 2.42 billion yen more than they sold, compared with 44.37 billion yen the previous week, according to a weekly report released by the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Compared with net weekly purchases of close to 100 billion yen in the first and third weeks of last month, however, foreign investors' buying excess has visibly narrowed in recent weeks.