iShares MSCI Japan ETF
iShares, Inc. · Series S000004249 · 1 share classes
data updated 2026-09-08
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2025 Q4
The iShares MSCI Japan ETF (the Fund ) seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of Japanese equities.
The fund tracks the MSCI Japan Index, which measures large- and mid-capitalization Japanese equities, using representative sampling to hold a portfolio with investment characteristics similar to the index rather than all its constituents. Because the fund may not hold all index components, its returns may diverge from the index. The fund generally invests at least 80% of assets in index securities or depositary receipts, with up to 20% in derivatives, cash, and non-index securities to aid tracking.
| Share class | Expense ratio |
|---|---|
| EWJ | 0.49% |
Portfolio turnover 6.00% · as of 2025 Q4
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Stocks | 99.00% |
| Other | 0.27% |
| Cash & short-term | 0.10% |
| Derivatives | 0.09% |
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
New: IBIDEN CO.,LTD., SHIMIZU CORPORATION, TOPIX INDX FUTR JUN26
Exited: TOYOTA INDUSTRIES CORPORATION, Trend Micro Incorporated, KOBE BUSSAN CO., LTD., Tokyo Metro Co., Ltd., SG HOLDINGS CO.,LTD., TOPIX INDX FUTR MAR26
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026
May 2026 has been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so it is not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Reported price | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 4.05% | $18.79 | $863.06M | 45.9M |
| — | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 3.43% | $18.92 | $730.27M | 38.6M |
| — | SoftBank Group Corp. | 3.34% | $47.04 | $711.43M | 15.1M |
| — | Tokyo Electron Limited | 2.87% | $335.37 | $612.04M | 1.8M |
| — | Hitachi, Ltd. | 2.84% | $32.37 | $604.12M | 18.7M |
| — | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 2.56% | $36.47 | $544.37M | 14.9M |
| — | Sony Group Corporation | 2.54% | $21.57 | $540.35M | 25.1M |
| — | ADVANTEST CORPORATION | 2.39% | $163.50 | $509.73M | 3.1M |
| — | Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. | 2.14% | $44.95 | $455.90M | 10.1M |
| — | Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | 2.01% | $62.98 | $428.17M | 6.8M |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-05-31 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
Top 10 positions are 28.17% of net assets, top 25 50.32%, across 182 issuers.
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