BOJ: Bank of Japan Statistical Data

Access Bank of Japan time-series statistics from the official flat file download service. Covers price indices (CGPI, SPPI), flow of funds, balance of payments, international investment position, BIS statistics, and TANKAN survey data.

Use Cases

• - Look up Corporate Goods Price Index (CGPI/企業物価指数) trends
• Analyze Services Producer Price Index (SPPI/企業向けサービス価格指数)
• Retrieve Flow of Funds data (資金循環統計)
• Access Balance of Payments statistics (国際収支統計)
• Review BIS international statistics
• Explore TANKAN survey results (短観)

Commands

List available datasets

CODEBLOCK0

Download and display data

CODEBLOCK1

Search for series

CODEBLOCK2

Test connectivity

CODEBLOCK3

Available Dataset Categories

Category	Prefix	Description
Prices	cgpi, sppi, cspi, rop	Corporate/Services price indices
Surveys

co | TANKAN (Short-term Economic Survey) | | Flow of Funds | fof | Financial assets & liabilities | | Balance of Payments | bp | International transactions | | International Investment | qiip | International investment position | | BIS Statistics | bis | BIS international banking/debt | | Money Stock | md | Money stock statistics | | Interest Rates | ir | Various interest rates |

Workflow

1. 1. boj-mcp datasets -> browse available datasets
2. INLINECODE1 -> find relevant series
3. INLINECODE2 -> retrieve data

Important

• - No API key required — BOJ flat files are publicly available
• Data is cached locally after first download for faster subsequent access
• Files are in Shift_JIS encoding (handled automatically)
• Data source: Bank of Japan (https://www.stat-search.boj.or.jp/)
• Python package: pip install boj-mcp or INLINECODE4