*Balance of Payments basis, net and flow.
**Figures after 2014 are complied according to the directional principle; that is, investments from an affiliated company in its parent company are recorded as withdrawals from the parent company.
***January to September.

Figures were first released in Japanese yen and converted to US dollars quarterly using Bank of Japan average inter-bank rates. From 2014 to 2016, the annual revision data converted using annual average rate.
Because the BOP related statistics have revised, there is no strict continuity in the data before 2013 and after 2014.
Negative values indicate net inflows.
For 2011, the figures of industry breakdown data are not revised.

1 U.S. dollar equals 110.41 Japanese yen or 0.89 euros as of February 2019.
Figures have been rounded.