iShares MSCI Japan ETF
iShares · Tracks MSCI Japan Index · Inception Mar 12, 1996
Trailing returns
through Oct 23, 2026- 1 year
- +18.2%
- 3 year
- +20.5%
- annualized
- 5 year
- +9.3%
- annualized
Price return from month-end closes, distributions reinvested at month end. Excludes trading costs, bid-ask spreads and taxes. Past performance says nothing about future returns and is not part of the composite score — see the methodology for what the score does measure.
Composite score
Based on a 0.49% expense ratio.
Based on $23.53B in net assets.
Top-10 holdings represent 28.2% of net assets.
International Developed base · ETF wrapper · 3.79% TTM yield.
The composite is a weighted average of the four core sub-scores above (cost, tax efficiency, liquidity, concentration). Missing sub-scores fall back to the per-category median when the category has at least 50% data coverage, so funds without (e.g.) parsed N-PORT holdings aren't accidentally boosted by renormalization. Tracking quality is shown where computable but isn't currently part of the composite weighting. See methodology for formulas, the tracking-quality partial-coverage rationale, and the dimensions we deliberately don't score (methodology v0.5.2).
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 4.05% |
| 2 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 3.43% |
| 3 | SoftBank Group Corp. | 3.34% |
| 4 | Tokyo Electron Limited | 2.87% |
| 5 | Hitachi, Ltd. | 2.84% |
| 6 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 2.56% |
| 7 | Sony Group Corporation | 2.54% |
| 8 | ADVANTEST CORPORATION | 2.39% |
| 9 | Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. | 2.14% |
| 10 | Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | 2.01% |
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