With more than a half of Japan’s ¥2 quadrillion in individual financial assets being held in savings accounts or in cash, many Japanese people have been indifferent to asset management.
But that may now be changing.
The fall in the yen’s value against the dollar in recent months looks to have been a wake-up call for a large number of people, as banks are seeing a surge in the number of customers funneling their money into foreign currencies.