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- Matthews Japan Fund Investor Class (MJFOX) is an open-end mutual fund managed by Matthews International Capital Management, LLC, seeking long-term capital appreciation by investing at least 80% of its net assets in common and preferred stocks of companies located in Japan. The fund pursues a high-conviction growth strategy with an unconstrained all-cap approach, targeting Japanese companies positioned to benefit from Asia's growth, including those leveraged to fast-growing consumer demand across Asia, global industry leaders, and entrepreneurial firms providing innovative domestic solutions; its portfolio emphasizes sectors such as industrials (24.1%), consumer discretionary (17.8%), and information technology (16.3%), with top holdings like Sony Group Corp., Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc., and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc., representing 38.6% of net assets as of June 30, 2025. Managed by Shuntaro Takeuchi since January 2019 and Donghoon Han since April 2023, the Investor Class shares (incepted December 31, 1998) carry a gross expense ratio of 1.15%, minimum initial investment of $2,500, and total net assets of approximately $682 million. Part of the Matthews Asia Funds family, the fund operates within the Japan Stock category (Morningstar) and focuses on U.S. investors, with availability in the United States; it benchmarks against the MSCI Japan Index and maintains a market-cap exposure tilted toward mega-cap (63.3%) and large-cap (23.0%) companies. Matthews International Capital Management, LLC (doing business as Matthews Asia), founded in 1991 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, serves as the investment adviser, managing $6.5 billion in assets as of June 30, 2025, with a bottom-up fundamental philosophy centered on long-term Asia growth; the firm became partially owned by Mizuho Financial Group in 2015 through a capital and business alliance. In recent developments, Matthews Asia launched two new active ETFs in late 2025—the Matthews Emerging Markets Discovery Active ETF (MEMS) and Matthews China Discovery Active ETF—targeting smaller companies with innovative models, alongside the return of portfolio manager Tiffany Hsiao; these expansions complement the firm's Asia-growth strategies without directly impacting MJFOX operations. The fund has sustained strong performance, with 1-year returns of 17.29% for the Investor Class as of June 30, 2025, outperforming the MSCI Japan Index, amid broad-based Japanese market gains through September 2025 driven by a strengthening yen. No major acquisitions, funding rounds, or reorganizations specific to MJFOX were reported in the last 1-2 years.