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Old 04-18-2007, 10:56 PM
JamesAt15 JamesAt15 is offline
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Default Re: How do I buy Japanese stock???

The problem with buying stocks on the Japanese market is

a) shares are often priced at several hundred US$ each, and
2) the minimum lot size is usually 100 shares

Yahoo Japan Finance page for Nintendo show it at around 36,000yen a share, with a lot size of 100 shares. That's about $30,000 you'd need to invest.

I'm not familiar with ADRs, but from the links TLC posted they look like a much more reasonable way to go for an individual investor.
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