Overall bank lending in Japan was up 0.7 percent on year in January, the Bank of Japan said on Wednesday, standing at 396.734 trillion yen.
That follows the 0.5 percent increase in December.
Including trusts, bank lending added an annual 0.6 percent to 459.176 trillion yen. That matched analyst expectations following the 0.4 percent gain in the previous month.
Lending from foreign banks plummeted 28.9 percent on year to 2.246 trillion in January. That follows the revised 32.1 percent contraction in December.
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