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iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund EWJ

Issuer: iShares SEC registrant: iShares, Inc. Equity · International
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Last price 95.43 USD Change: Up +0.44 Percent change: Up +0.46%

Source: Yahoo Finance (opens in a new tab) Observed · 1 day ago Quotes may be delayed

Expense ratio
0.49%
Prospectus 30 Dec 2025
Net assets
$21.3B
As of 31 May 2026
Holdings
182
As of 31 May 2026
12-month distribution yield
3.73%
Twice a year
Asset class
Equity
From holdings

iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund (EWJ) is an exchange-traded fund listed on NYSE Arca in the United States, issued by iShares. Its category is Equity · International (equity). Its last price was US$95.43 on 20 Oct 2026. Its expense ratio is 0.49% a year, from its prospectus dated 30 Dec 2025. It reported net assets of US$21.3 billion as of 31 May 2026. Its latest holdings report lists 182 holdings as of 31 May 2026. Over the last 12 months it paid distributions of US$3.56 a unit, a 12-month distribution yield of 3.73%, paid twice a year.

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Fees

Total annual operating expenses (gross)
0.49%
Net, after fee waivers or reimbursements
No waiver stated
Management fee
0.49%
Prospectus date
30 Dec 2025
Filed with the SEC
19 Dec 2025

Source: SEC prospectus risk/return data sets (opens in a new tab) Filed

Size and reporting

Net assets
$21,298,173,249
Total assets
$21,323,080,103
Holdings as of
31 May 2026
Report made public
27 Jul 2026 (57 days after the month end)

Net assets are for the whole fund series, which for some funds (Vanguard's, for example) also includes mutual fund share classes.

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Filed

Top holdings

Largest 25 of 182 positions, as of 31 May 2026. Weight is the percent of net assets the fund reported.

EWJ top holdings as of 31 May 2026
# Holding Identifier Weight Value (USD) Type Country Currency
1 Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. JP3902900004 4.05% $863.1M Equity (common) Japan JPY
2 TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION JP3633400001 3.43% $730.3M Equity (common) Japan JPY
3 SoftBank Group Corp. JP3436100006 3.34% $711.4M Equity (common) Japan JPY
4 Tokyo Electron Limited TOKYO ELECTRON LTD JP3571400005 2.87% $612.0M Equity (common) Japan JPY
5 Hitachi, Ltd. JP3788600009 2.84% $604.1M Equity (common) Japan JPY
6 Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. JP3890350006 2.56% $544.4M Equity (common) Japan JPY
7 Sony Group Corporation JP3435000009 2.54% $540.4M Equity (common) Japan JPY
8 ADVANTEST CORPORATION JP3122400009 2.39% $509.7M Equity (common) Japan JPY
9 Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. JP3885780001 2.14% $455.9M Equity (common) Japan JPY
10 Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. JP3914400001 2.01% $428.2M Equity (common) Japan JPY
11 Mitsubishi Corporation JP3898400001 1.95% $414.9M Equity (common) Japan JPY
12 FAST RETAILING CO., LTD. JP3802300008 1.89% $402.7M Equity (common) Japan JPY
13 KEYENCE CORPORATION JP3236200006 1.87% $397.7M Equity (common) Japan JPY
14 Recruit Holdings Co.,Ltd. JP3970300004 1.80% $383.5M Equity (common) Japan JPY
15 MITSUI & CO., LTD. JP3893600001 1.57% $334.3M Equity (common) Japan JPY
16 Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. JP3371200001 1.57% $333.6M Equity (common) Japan JPY
17 Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. JP3910660004 1.56% $332.3M Equity (common) Japan JPY
18 Kioxia Holdings Corporation JP3236330001 1.49% $317.7M Equity (common) Japan JPY
19 Mitsubishi Electric Corporation JP3902400005 1.48% $314.9M Equity (common) Japan JPY
20 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. JP3900000005 1.45% $308.6M Equity (common) Japan JPY
21 ITOCHU Corporation JP3143600009 1.37% $292.7M Equity (common) Japan JPY
22 HOYA CORPORATION JP3837800006 1.10% $234.0M Equity (common) Japan JPY
23 Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. JP3407400005 1.05% $224.4M Equity (common) Japan JPY
24 Panasonic Holdings Corporation JP3866800000 1.03% $219.5M Equity (common) Japan JPY
25 Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD JP3463000004 0.97% $206.9M Equity (common) Japan JPY

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Made public Holdings as of 31 May 2026

All 182 stored holdings

Breakdowns

Sums of reported weights over every position in the report. Totals can differ from 100% because of derivatives, borrowing and cash.

Asset type

Asset type by weight
TypeWeightBar
Equity (common) 99.00%
Other 0.27%
Short-term investment vehicles (cash funds) 0.10%
Equity derivatives 0.09%

Country

Country by weight
CountryWeightBar
Japan 99.36%
United States 0.10%

The country each issuer is assigned to in the report.

Currency exposure

Currency exposure by weight
CurrencyWeightBar
Japanese yen (JPY) 99.36%
US dollar (USD) 0.10%

The currency each holding is denominated in. Currency hedges are not netted off, so a hedged fund still shows its holdings' currencies.

Sector

No sector data

None of this fund's holdings matched a stock listed on this site, so no sector is shown.

Partial coverage: sectors are known for 0.0% of net assets (0% of the fund's equity weight), the holdings matched by CUSIP or ticker to US stocks listed on this site. The rest is not assigned a sector.

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Holdings as of

Distributions

Paid in the last 12 months
$3.5620
2 payments per unit
12-month yield
3.73%
Distributions only, not total return
Frequency
Twice a year
From the gaps between ex-dates
Latest ex-date
15 Jun 2026

12-month yield = distributions per unit with an ex-date in the last 12 months ($3.5620) ÷ latest price ($95.43) × 100 = 3.73%. It looks back, so it is not a forecast; special distributions in the window are included.

Why a distribution yield is not the fund's return: yield vs total return

Distribution history table (10 payments)
EWJ distributions per unit by ex-date
Ex-dateAmount per unit
15 Jun 2026$0.5010
16 Dec 2025$3.0610
16 Jun 2025$0.5910
17 Dec 2024$1.0640
11 Jun 2024$0.5090
20 Dec 2023$0.8750
7 Jun 2023$0.4310
13 Dec 2022$0.1240
9 Jun 2022$0.5460
13 Dec 2021$0.8880

Source: Yahoo Finance (opens in a new tab) Checked · 2 days ago Amounts are adjusted for later unit splits

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