With some US quarterly results robust, expectations for Japanese firms' earnings results to be strong are also growing.
Market participants are relieved as they now see the trend of foreigners exiting the Japanese market is over.
Foreigners have, thus far, made a lot of money by investing in Japanese stocks which were relatively cheap.
Overall the survey showed that the expansion of the Japanese economy will continue.
It seems that foreign selling, partly spurred by relatively expensive Japanese shares, has peaked out.