Foreign traders, Chinese fuel Japan's market rally in new year

TOKYO -- Global investors are piling into Japan, fueling the country's equity market this year amid a weaker yen and dampened prospects of the central bank's exit from its negative interest rate policy.

"A lot of foreign investors driving the rally have previously not been invested in Japan," said Zuhair Khan, senior fund manager at Union Bancaire Privee who has been in the Japanese financial services industry for around three decades.