Tokyo Closing Bell delivers a concise, data-first English wrap of the Japanese stock market after every Tokyo trading session.
Japan is the world’s third-largest equity market, yet timely English coverage of its daily internals — short-selling ratios, margin balances, and investor flows — remains scarce outside expensive terminals and paywalled outlets. We close that gap.
What we publish
- Daily Briefing — Nikkei 225 and TOPIX moves, sector highlights, large-cap movers, USD/JPY, and the TSE short-selling ratio, published after the Tokyo close.
- Weekly Flows — who bought and who sold: foreign investors vs. individuals, from the TSE’s official weekly investor statistics.
- Analysis & Guides — evergreen explainers on how the Japanese market works: short-selling data, the yen carry trade, Bank of Japan policy mechanics, and more.
Who we are
Tokyo Closing Bell is produced by the TKCB Editorial team using a purpose-built data pipeline that pulls directly from primary sources — Japan Exchange Group (JPX) statistics and Nikkei Inc. official index data — and cross-verifies every figure before publication. See our Methodology for exactly how each number is sourced and checked.
Article drafts are written by AI language models working from that verified data, then reviewed by a human editor before anything is published. See our Methodology for the full process.
Nothing on this site is investment advice. We report data; we do not recommend trades.