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<DESCRIPTION>JEQ 10-31-04 AUDITOR LETTER
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Directors and Shareholders
of The Japan Equity Fund, Inc.


In planning and performing our audit of the financial
statements of The Japan Equity Fund, Inc. (the "Fund") for the
year ended October 31, 2004, we considered its internal
control, including control activities for safeguarding
securities, in order to determine our auditing procedures for
the purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial
statements and to comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR,
not to provide assurance on internal control.

The management of the Fund is responsible for establishing and
maintaining internal control.  In fulfilling this
responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are
required to assess the expected benefits and related costs of
controls.  Generally, controls that are relevant to an audit
pertain to the entity's objective of preparing financial
statements for external purposes that are fairly presented in
conformity with generally accepted accounting principles.
Those controls include the safeguarding of assets against
unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition.

Because of inherent limitations in internal control, errors or
fraud may occur and not be detected.  Also, projection of any
evaluation of internal control to future periods is subject to
the risk that controls may become inadequate because of
changes in conditions or that the effectiveness of their
design and operation may deteriorate.

Our consideration of internal control would not necessarily
disclose all matters in internal control that might be
material weaknesses under standards established by the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).  A
material weakness, for purposes of this report, is a condition
in which the design or operation of one or more of the
internal control components does not reduce to a relatively
low level the risk that misstatements caused by error or fraud
in amounts that would be material in relation to the financial
statements being audited may occur and not be detected within
a timely period by employees in the normal course of
performing their assigned functions.  However, we noted no
matters involving internal control and its operation,
including controls for safeguarding securities, that we
consider to be material weaknesses as defined above as of
October 31, 2004.

This report is intended solely for the information and use of
the Board of Directors, management and the Securities and
Exchange Commission and is not intended to be and should not
be used by anyone other than these specified parties.


PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
New York, New York
December 22, 2004
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