2-year yield on government bonds (percentage points; constant maturity; nominal) - Japan - Ministry of Finance - Daily
This series is part of the dataset: Japan constant-maturity government-bond yield curve (Ministry of Finance)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In Japan, the 2-year government-bond yield was 0.96 percent on 30 September 2025, versus 0.93 on 29 September.
Sample. There are 12,706 data points in the daily time series displayed in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series goes from September 1974 to September 2025.
History. Check out a few simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: the yield reached its minimum of -0.37 percent on 27 July 2016; it hit a peak of 12.14 on 4 April 1980; it had a mean value of 2.74.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Percentage points |
|---|---|
| 2025-09-26 | 0.931 |
| 2025-09-29 | 0.931 |
| 2025-09-30 | 0.958 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 2-year yield; Japan government bond yield curve |
| Country | Japan |
| Economic concept | Interest rate |
| Data type | Semiannually compounded interest rate |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Rescaling | None |
| Frequency | Daily |
| Unit | Percentage points |
| Source | Japan Ministry of Finance |
| Source type | National source |
| Data licence | Public Data Licence |
| Measure type | Interpolated level (constant maturity; cubic spline) |