What does Japan import the most?

Japan's largest import is crude oil, worth $61.5B in 2025, 8.3% of its total imports of $742B.

Does Japan run a trade surplus or deficit?

Japan ran a trade surplus of $36.9B in 2025: it exported $779B of goods and imported $742B.

Oxygen heterocycles is Japan's fastest-growing top import by value, up 55% year over year, reaching $1.4B in 2025.

$742B

2025 · Annual

Japan yearly trade, 2015-2025

Japan monthly trade through June 2026

#	Name	Value 2025	Share	YoY
1	Crude oil	$61.5B	8.3%	-10%
2	Petroleum gases	$42.6B	5.7%	-8%
3	Telephones and communication equipment	$27.9B	3.8%	+12%
4	Computers and peripherals	$22.6B	3.0%	+24%
5	Integrated circuits	$22.4B	3.0%	+4.8%
6	Refined industrial goods	$18.6B	2.4%	+6.2%
7	Processed materials	$15.7B	2.1%	-3.1%
8	Specialty equipment	$12.8B	1.7%	+12%
9	Consumer products	$9.9B	1.3%	+0.7%
10	Intermediate goods	$7B	1.0%	-5.4%

#	Name	Value 2025	Share	YoY
1	Oxygen heterocycles	$1.4B	0.2%	+55%
2	Coffee	$2.5B	0.3%	+50%
3	Games and amusement equipment	$3B	0.4%	+48%
4	Copper scrap	$2.8B	0.4%	+47%
5	Waste and scrap of batteries and electronics	$1.2B	0.2%	+33%
6	Refined industrial goods	$959M	0.4%	+6.2%
7	Processed materials	$809M	0.4%	-3.1%
8	Specialty equipment	$659M	0.4%	+12%
9	Consumer products	$508M	0.4%	+0.7%
10	Intermediate goods	$358M	0.4%	-5.4%

Source & methodology

We use primary trade sources for every country. See our methodology page for how we source and verify this data.

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