Short interest in Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund Inc (NYSE:JOF) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 7.72K to 14.83K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 111.97K shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.