Short interest in Japan Tobacco Inc (OTC:JAPAF) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 579.45K to 742.91K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Japan Tobacco gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Japan Tobacco's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 2.40K shares traded per day, it would take 309.67 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.