--- title: What Analysts Say About Triggers of Japan’s Stocks Rout description: Japanese stocks had their worst day since 1987, with both the Topix index and the Nikkei 225 Stock Average entering bear markets as investors fled amid a surge in the yen, tighter monetary policy and U.S. economic concerns canonical: https://time.com/7007854/japan-stock-market-rout/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-08-05T14:24:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T18:05:28.915Z article:section: World og:title: What Analysts Say About Triggers of Japan’s Stocks Rout og:description: Japanese stocks had their worst day since 1987. og:url: https://time.com/7007854/japan-stock-market-rout/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26acb38b9ea34d7b/698a59a309208fff5741d76d/Japan.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Japan Financial Markets og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: What Analysts Say About Triggers of Japan’s Stocks Rout twitter:description: Japanese stocks had their worst day since 1987. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26acb38b9ea34d7b/698a59a309208fff5741d76d/Japan.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # What Analysts Say About Triggers of Japan’s Stocks Rout > Sponsored content. 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Source: [https://aws.amazon.com/quick/](/c/aws-quick-time-2026q4/home?i=5ec06b0b-8258-4d56-bed1-6bc6f8d3bf0d&cr=aws-quick-2026q4-v1) and [https://aws.amazon.com/quick/pricing/](/c/aws-quick-time-2026q4/pricing?i=5ec06b0b-8258-4d56-bed1-6bc6f8d3bf0d&cr=aws-quick-2026q4-v1) by [Momoka Yokoyama and Aya Wagatsuma / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Momoka Yokoyama and Aya Wagatsuma / Bloomberg Contributor Aug 5, 2024 2:24 PM UTC  A monitor shows the Nikkei 225 stock index in Tokyo on Aug. 5, 2024, A monitor shows the Nikkei 225 stock index in Tokyo on Aug. 5, 2024, Shohei Miyano—Kyodo News/AP by [Momoka Yokoyama and Aya Wagatsuma / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Momoka Yokoyama and Aya Wagatsuma / Bloomberg Contributor Aug 5, 2024 2:24 PM UTC Japanese stocks had their worst day since 1987, with both the Topix index and the Nikkei 225 Stock Average [entering](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-05/japan-s-stock-rout-enters-third-day-with-nikkei-in-bear-market) bear markets as investors fled amid a surge in the yen, tighter monetary policy and U.S. economic concerns. Forced margin [selling](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-05/forced-margin-selling-seen-exacerbating-japan-market-rout) among retail investors was seen as exacerbating the rout, while UBS Securities cut its index targets for Japan. Here is what analysts are saying about who is offloading shares and why, and where the market may be headed from here: ## Who’s selling? Rina Oshimo, a senior strategist at Okasan Securities Co. “Selling is being spurred by the unwinding of long positions and the involvement of trend-following hedge funds. Valuation and fundamental strategies are not applicable in some areas due to the panic selling aspect of the market.” Takehiko Masuzawa, head of equity trading at Phillip Securities Japan Kyle Rodda, a senior market analyst at Capital.Com “The rapid move in the yen is putting downward pressure on Japanese equities, but it’s also driving an unwind of a major carry trade — investors had leveraged up by borrowing in yen to buy other assets, chiefly US tech stocks.” ## Yen and BOJ Rafael Nemet-Nejat, a senior portfolio manager at Jin Investment Management Pte “This is a massive deleveraging that is occurring, triggered by the BOJ rate hike and the FOMC likely cutting in September causing a huge unwind in the carry trade.” “Thus, many people long the weak JPY trades and soft landing scenario are being forced to unwind. The moves are extreme especially in crowded longs even if earnings are huge beats, likely indicating that funds are either blowing up and or experiencing a lot of pain.” Tim Morse, an analyst at Asymmetric Advisors “This is all yen driven - sudden plunge from 145 towards 142 makes further technical barrier break seem within reach.” ## U.S. economy Jumpei Tanaka, a strategist at Pictet Asset Management “Japanese equities were adversely affected by the ‘Sahm Rule’ triggered by last Friday’s announcement of the US unemployment rate rising to 4.3%, which raised fears of a U.S. recession.” “At the moment, the US Economic surprise index is showing a negative (worsening) trend, and investors are becoming increasingly wary of deteriorating U.S. economic indicators. In addition, the Jackson Hole meeting is coming up this month and the FOMC meeting next month. Hideyuki Suzuki, a general manager at SBI Securities “At the moment, the US Economic surprise index is showing a negative (worsening) trend, and investors are becoming increasingly wary of deteriorating U.S. economic indicators. In addition, the Jackson Hole meeting is coming up this month and the FOMC meeting next month. ## Outlook James Salter, CIO of Zennor Asset Management “Our short-term concerns do not detract from our longer-term optimism on capital allocation change in Japan.” We do not expect this to have a radical impact on Japanese competitiveness or even earnings.” Hiroshi Namioka chief strategist at T&D Asset Management Co. in Tokyo. “With heightened volatility, the market will likely be rough over the next few days, but towards the end of the week it may rebound.” Rupal Agarwal, Asia quantitative strategist at Sanford C. Bernstein “We are at a point in the cycle where bad news is bad news. Do note, for Japan we have been recommending to look at quality stocks and add more exposure to domestic Japan since the beginning of the year, so this sell-off hasn’t changed our view.” “From a long-term perspective, we still remain positive on the Japan structural story.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7007854/japan-stock-market-rout/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7007854/japan-stock-market-rout/"},"headline":"What Analysts Say About Triggers of Japan’s Stocks Rout","datePublished":"2024-08-05T14:24:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T18:05:28.915Z","description":"Japanese stocks had their worst day since 1987.","url":"https://time.com/7007854/japan-stock-market-rout/","keywords":["Japan","wire","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26acb38b9ea34d7b/698a59a309208fff5741d76d/Japan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Momoka Yokoyama and Aya Wagatsuma / Bloomberg"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26acb38b9ea34d7b/698a59a309208fff5741d76d/Japan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Japan Financial Markets","caption":"Japan Financial Markets","creditText":"Shohei Miyano—Kyodo News/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/japan/","name":"Japan"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/7007854/japan-stock-market-rout/","name":"What Analysts Say About Triggers of Japan’s Stocks Rout"}}]}] ```