iShares Inc. MSCI Japan Index (EWJ)

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The iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund is an exchange traded index fund that seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of publicly traded securities in the aggregate in the Japanese market, as measured by the MSCI Japan Index. The MSCI Japan Index consists of stocks traded primarily on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. As of September 30, 2004, the Index's three largest stocks were Toyota Motor Corp., NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Canon Inc. and its three largest industries were automobiles and components, technology hardware and equipment and capital goods. The Fund uses a Representative Sampling strategy to try to track the Index. The Fund pays out dividends to investors at least annually and may pay them on a more frequent basis. The Fund distributes its net capital gains, if any, to investors annually. Click on the Goto Fund Info link below to see the top holdings of the fund and other fund information. Barclays Global Fund Advisors, a subsidiary of Barclays Global Investors, N.A., is the investment advisor to the Fund.