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<DESCRIPTION>JAPAN EQUITY FUND 10-31-05 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 Fund, Inc. (the "Fund") as of and for
the year ended October 31, 2005, in accordance with the
standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States), we considered the Fund's internal control
over financial reporting, including control activities for
safeguarding securities, as a basis for designing our auditing
procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on the
financial statements and to comply with the requirements of
Form N-SAR, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion
on the effectiveness of the Fund's internal control over
financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

The management of the Fund is responsible for establishing and
maintaining effective internal control over financial
reporting.  In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and
judgments by management are required to assess the expected
benefits and related costs of controls.  A fund's internal
control over financial reporting is a process designed to
provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of
financial reporting and the preparation of financial
statements for external purposes in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles.  Such internal control over
financial reporting includes policies and procedures that
provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely
detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of a
fund's assets that could have a material effect on the
financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over
financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.
Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future
periods are subject to the risk that controls may become
inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the
degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may
deteriorate.

A control deficiency exists when the design or operation of a
control does not allow management or employees, in the normal
course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent or
detect misstatements on a timely basis. A significant
deficiency is a control deficiency, or combination of control
deficiencies, that adversely affects the fund's ability to
initiate, authorize, record, process or report external
financial data reliably in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles such that there is more than a remote
likelihood that a misstatement of the company's annual or
interim financial statements that is more than inconsequential
will not be prevented or detected.  A material weakness is a
control deficiency, or combination of control deficiencies,
that results in more than a remote likelihood that a material
misstatement of the annual or interim financial statements
will not be prevented or detected.

Our consideration of the Fund's internal control over
financial reporting was for the limited purpose described in
the first paragraph and would not necessarily disclose all
deficiencies in internal control over financial reporting that
might be significant deficiencies or material weaknesses under
standards established by the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board (United States).  However, we noted no
deficiencies in the Fund's internal control over financial
reporting and its operation, including controls for
safeguarding securities, that we consider to be material
weaknesses as defined above as of October 31, 2005.

This report is intended solely for the information and use of
management and the Board of Directors of the Fund 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 19, 2005





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