From MNI: Japan’s foreign reserves rose to $1.053 trillion at the end of January from $1.049 trillion at end-December but were below the record high of $1.074 trillion marked at end-November 2009, the Ministry of Finance said on Friday.

The country’s forex reserves remain the second largest in the world, next to China’s, which is estimated at $2.40 trillion at the end of the final quarter of 2009………………………………..Full Article: Source