DIARY-Japan-Nov 20 -BOJ ends 2-day policy review

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Friday, Nov. 20

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

-- Bank of Japan ends two-day policy board meeting, to be
followed by a news conference by BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa.

-- Cabinet meeting followed by news conferences from Finance
Minister Hiroshisa Fujii and Strategy Minister Naoto Kan.

-- Government's monthly economic report

0700 -- Head of UNHCR Antonio Guterres to hold a news
conference at the Japan National Press Club, to speak about
conditions in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.

COMPANIES

0530 -- Sony Corp (6758.T) media roundtable with Executive
Vice President Kazuo Hirai, head of its game and online
businesses.

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Monday, Nov. 23

National Holiday, Labour Thanksgiving Day

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Tuesday, Nov. 24

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

-- Cabinet meeting followed by news conferences from Finance
Minister Hirohisa Fujii and Strategy Minister Naoto Kan.

0400 -- Citigroup Securities holds South African seminar.
Speakers include Johannesburg Stock Exchange CEO Russell Mark
Loubser.

0500 -- Bank of Japan releases monthly economic report

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Wednesday, Nov. 25

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

2345* -- Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Hirohide Yamaguchi
delivers a keynote speech at Financial Retail Strategy Conference

2350* -- Corporate services price index for October.

2350* -- Crude oil import data for October

0130 -- Two-year JGB auction

0345 -- Two-year JGB auction results
0500 -- Three-month weather forecast

0500 -- Masahiro Kawai, dean of the Asian Development Bank
Institute, to speak at the Japan National Press Club on Japan,
United States and China ties.

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Thursday, Nov. 26

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

2350* -- Bank of Japan releases minutes of Oct. 30 meeting

0130 -- International Energy Agency Executive Director Nobuo
Tanaka speaks at Japan National Press Club on the world energy
outlook.

0300 -- Weekly crude and oil product stock data

COMPANIES

0800 -- Sony Corp (6758.T) roundtable with Executive Deputy
President Hiroshi Yoshioka.

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Friday, Nov. 27

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

2330* -- Nationwide consumer price index for October, Tokyo
CPI for November [JPCPI=ECI] [JPCPIT=ECI] ECONJP

2330* -- October household spending [JPALLS=ECI]

2330* -- October jobless rate and job offers-applicants ratio
[JPJOBA=ECI] [JPUNR=ECI]

2350* -- October retail sales [JPRSLS=ECI]

-- Cabinet meeting followed by news conferences from Finance
Minister Hirohisa Fujii and Strategy Minister Naoto Kan.

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Monday, Nov. 30

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

2350* -- October industrial output [JPIP1=ECI] ECONJP

0100 -- Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa meets local
business leaders in Nagoya, central Japan

0430 -- Trade ministry oil sales data for October

0445 -- Shirakawa news conference

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Tuesday, Dec. 1

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

0600 -- November nuclear run rate data

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Wednesday, Dec. 2

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

-- Laszlo Solyom, President of Hungary, begins five-day visit
to Japan.

2350* -- Monetary base for November [JPMONB=ECI] ECONJP

0100 -- Bank of Japan board member Miyako Suda meets local
business leaders in Kofu, central Japan

0430 -- Suda news conference

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Thursday, Dec. 3

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

-- Laszlo Solyom, President of Hungary, to meet Prime
Minister Yukio Hatoyama.

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Friday, Dec. 4

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

-- Asian Development Bank Institute to hold a conference on
"Effects of Social Policy on Domestic Demand".

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