Individual investors turned net buyers of stocks for the first time in four months in January.
They purchased 188.8 billion yen more than they sold on the Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya stock exchanges in a turnaround from net sales of 25 billion yen in December.
Their net purchases topped 100 billion yen for the first time since January 2000.
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