Transaction in Own Shares

JPMorgan Japanese Inv. Trust PLC
20 June 2007



                       LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT

                     JPMORGAN JAPANESE INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

                 REPURCHASE OF ORDINARY SHARES FOR CANCELLATION

JPMorgan Japanese Investment Trust plc has today purchased150,000 ordinary
shares for cancellation at 229.5 pence per share.

Following the transaction the remaining shares in issue total 182,667,919.







20th June 2007





For further information, please contact:



Andrew Norman

JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited, 020 7742 6000





Gavin Tooke

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein - Stockbrokers to the Company

0207 623 8000






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