MSCI Barra launched the MSCI Kokunai Japan Equity indexes today...

MSCI Barra launched the MSCI Kokunai Japan Equity indexes today, confirmed Rabbe Ekholm, a managing director. The indexes, with more than 2,500 securities from all major Japanese stock exchanges, include large cap, midcap, small cap and microcap as well as value and growth. There is a total of 900 subindexes. Initially, index and constituent data is available back to May 31, 2005, but MSCI Barra plans to add full historical data in early 2006.