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EWJ holdings

EWJ reports 181 holdings and behaves like 69.9 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-05-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-05-31
181 Positions reported
69.9 Effective holdings
2.6× Concentration multiple
28.34% Top ten weight

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 3.66% at a quoted market price (level 1), 2 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

EWJ's largest investment is Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc at 4.05% of net assets. Toyota Motor Corp and Softbank Group Corp follow; the three together are 10.82%. Ten companies are 28.34% of the fund; the other 171 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, EWJ behaves like 69.9 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 1.6 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings EWJ has become more concentrated: it behaved like 99.8 at 2019-11-30 and 69.9 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 3 positions were added and 6 dropped; 9.1% of the weight moved.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2019

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Between 2021-02-28 and 2026-05-31, EWJ went from behaving like 99.8 equally weighted positions to 69.9 — 30% fewer, while its top ten went from 22.23% to 28.34% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 181 69.9 28.34% 4.08%
2026-02-28 184 72.5 27.92% 4.41%
2025-11-30 185 70.9 28.45% 4.23%
2025-08-31 181 71.2 28.16% 4.33%
2025-05-31 * 185 70.7 28.22% 4.49%
2025-02-28 192 71.3 28.24% 4.91%
2024-11-30 * 192 74 27.32% 4.65%
2024-08-31 205 76.9 26.56% 5.04%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 * 219 73.7 26.85% 6.01%
2024-02-29 227 72.1 26.84% 6.52%
2023-11-30 * 238 81.9 24.6% 5.73%
2023-08-31 239 87.4 23.48% 5.22%
2023-05-31 * 239 91 22.82% 4.28%
2023-02-28 239 90.8 22.97% 4.53%
2022-11-30 * 239 91.3 22.47% 4.89%
2022-08-31 240 91.2 22.15% 5.13%
2022-05-31 * 261 89.2 22.94% 5.29%
2022-02-28 260 89.9 22.88% 5.29%
2021-11-30 * 273 88.8 24.05% 4.89%
2021-08-31 274 96.7 22.4% 4.63%
2021-05-31 * 275 98.4 22.38% 4.44%
2021-02-28 303 99.8 22.23% 3.89%
2020-11-30 * 320 107.1 21.05% 3.68%
2020-08-31 * 320 110 20.73% 3.99%
2020-05-31 * 324 112.2 20.21% 4.29%
2020-02-29 * 324 110.5 20.1% 4.63%
2019-11-30 * 326 117.8 19.04% 4.45%

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-05-31

The 15 largest of 181 positions in EWJ's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: EWJ.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.4.08%4.1%
2TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION3.45%7.5%
3SoftBank Group Corp.3.36%10.9%
4Tokyo Electron Limited2.89%13.8%
5Hitachi, Ltd.2.85%16.6%
6Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.2.57%19.2%
7Sony Group Corporation2.55%21.8%
8ADVANTEST CORPORATION2.41%24.2%
9Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.2.15%26.3%
10Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.2.02%28.3%
11Mitsubishi Corporation1.96%30.3%
12FAST RETAILING CO., LTD.1.90%32.2%
13KEYENCE CORPORATION1.88%34.1%
14Recruit Holdings Co.,Ltd.1.81%35.9%
15MITSUI & CO., LTD.1.58%37.5%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

Share of EWJ's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
Japan 99.96%
United States 0.04%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of EWJ's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

31.4%Last twelve months filed
99%Whole series, compounded
12.5%Best month
-9.4%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.26 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EWJ.json · all funds.

Who borrows EWJ's shares

2026-05-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-05-31, $13m was out to 2 borrowers, 0.06% of net assets. The largest, MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC, held 82.2% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $11m 82.2%
HSBC BANK PLC $2m 17.8%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 0.06% of net assets, 98.4% of the amount lent. That is a floor on the collateral, not the whole of it — collateral the fund does not hold as a position is not in this filing, so a figure under 100% is not evidence of under-collateralisation. How that figure behaves across all funds. Every quarter EWJ has filed, with each borrower: EWJ.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

184 positions became 181: 3 added (0.9% of the fund at the later date), 6 dropped (0.7% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 9.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EWJ compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
SoftBank Group Corp.1.88%3.36% TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION4.41%3.45%
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.0.84%2.02% Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.1.97%1.46%
Kioxia Holdings Corporation0.49%1.50% ITOCHU Corporation1.66%1.38%
Recruit Holdings Co.,Ltd.1.18%1.81% Nintendo Co., Ltd.1.20%0.95%
Tokyo Electron Limited2.42%2.89% AEON CO.,LTD.0.61%0.37%
TDK CORPORATION0.58%0.97% CHUGAI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.0.87%0.64%

New: IBIDEN CO.,LTD. (0.66%), SHIMIZU CORPORATION (0.16%), TOPIX INDX FUTR JUN26 (0.09%). Gone: TOYOTA INDUSTRIES CORPORATION (0.40%), Trend Micro Incorporated (0.08%), KOBE BUSSAN CO., LTD. (0.07%), Tokyo Metro Co., Ltd. (0.06%), SG HOLDINGS CO.,LTD. (0.06%), TOPIX INDX FUTR MAR26 (0.01%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC99.54%
unknown unknown0.27%
short-term investment STIV0.10%
derivative DE0.09%

3.7% of EWJ is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Derivative exposure and counterparties

as of 2026-05-31

A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $21.30B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

99%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.81%Futures notional (1)
99.8%Sum, % of net assets

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

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Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of EWJ (69.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
NOBL ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF 73 68.5 16.58% 2026-05-31
BBJP JPMorgan BetaBuilders Japan ETF 175 68.6 * 28.8% 2026-07-31
KNG FT Vest S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Target Income ETF 70 68.8 16.25% 2026-07-31
IUS Invesco RAFI Strategic US ETF 543 69 29.54% 2026-05-31
SEIV SEI Enhanced U.S. Large Cap Value Factor ETF 127 69.7 25.86% 2026-06-30
PIZ Invesco Dorsey Wright Developed Markets Momentum ETF 100 70 25.64% 2026-07-31
GCOW Pacer Global Cash Cows Dividend ETF 101 70.1 20.57% 2026-07-31
DBJP Xtrackers MSCI Japan Hedged Equity ETF 175 70.3 28.1% 2026-05-29
SPGP Invesco S&P 500 GARP ETF 76 70.6 19.67% 2026-07-31
XSMO Invesco S&P SmallCap Momentum ETF 108 70.8 24.1% 2026-07-31

Essays that examine EWJ

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