On June 22, approximately 1,200 small and medium-sized enterprises in Japan's National Business Pension Fund (located in Okayama City) plan to start investing in cryptocurrencies within the 2026 fiscal year.

There have been some cases of Japanese companies investing in crypto assets, but direct participation in crypto investments by domestic pension funds remains relatively rare.

The fund plans to allocate about 1% of its total assets to cryptocurrencies, and indirectly invest through passive funds managed by large hedge funds that include various crypto assets.

In terms of asset allocation, for the 2025 fiscal year, the structure is: 80% Japanese yen, 15% US dollars, and 5% other currencies.
In the 2026 fiscal year, the plan is to adjust to: 70% Japanese yen, add 10% in developed country currencies, and allocate the remaining 5% to emerging market currencies, gold, and crypto assets.

The main purpose of this adjustment is to diversify exchange rate risk.
Yumiko Kizuki, executive director of the fund, stated that the status of the US dollar as the global benchmark currency may be weakening, so they decided to reduce dollar holdings.
He also pointed out that Bitcoin has almost zero correlation with the US dollar index, making it a tool for hedging currency devaluation risk and enhancing the portfolio's inflation resistance. #我的Gate交易时刻