DIARY-Japan-Feb 16 - Five-year JGB auction

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Tuesday, Feb.16

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

-- Cabinet meeting followed by Finance Minister Naoto Kan
news conference.

0130 -- Five-year JGB auction

0345 -- Five-year JGB auction

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Wednesday, Feb.17

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

-- Bank of Japan begins two-day policy review

2330 -- February Reuters Tankan [JPRTAN=ECI] ECONJP

0200 -- Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga to speak at the
Japan National Press Club

0600 -- Motohide Yoshikawa, Special Representative for
Assistance to Afghanistan and Pakistan to speak at Japan National
Press Club on Japan's stance on Afghanistan.

COMPANIES

0430 -- Mitsubishi Motors Corp (7211.T) launches new compact
SUV "RVR"

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Thursday, Feb. 18

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

-- Bank of Japan's two-day policy review ends, decision
announced. BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa news conference

COMPANIES

0500 -- Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association Chairman
Satoshi Aoki regular news conference

0500 -- LG Electronics Inc (066570.KS) briefing on PC
monitors

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Friday, Feb. 19

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

0500 -- Bank of Japan releases economic monthly report for
February.

0500 -- Kenyan environmentalist and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize
winner Wangari Maathai speaks at the Japan National Press Club on
climate change issues.

0130 -- Liquidity-enhancing JGB auction

0415 -- Liquidity-enhancing JGB auction result

COMPANIES

0600 -- Bridgestone (5108.T) 2009 results

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Monday, Feb. 22

COMPANIES

0630 -- Fujio Mitarai, chairman of Keidanren, and Hiromasa
Yonekura, chairman of the board of councillors and chairman
designate, to hold a news conference

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Tuesday, Feb. 23

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

2350* -- Bank of Japan releases minutes of its Jan. 25-26
policy meeting

0130 -- 20-year JGB auction

0345 -- 20-year JGB auction result

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Wednesday, Feb. 24

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

2350* -- January trade data [JPTBL2=ECI] ECONJP

2350* -- January corporate services price index

0130 -- Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Hirohide Yamaguchi
delivers speech to business leaders in Kagoshima, southern Japan

0530 -- Yamaguchi news conference

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Thursday, Feb. 25

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

0130 -- Two-year JGB auction

0345 -- Two-year JGB auction result

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Friday, Feb . 26

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

2330* -- Nationwide consumer price index for January, Tokyo
CPI for February [JPCPI=ECI] [JPCPIT=ECI] [JPJOBA=ECI] ECONJP

2350* -- Retail sales for January [JPRSLS=ECI]

2350* -- January industrial output [JPIP1=ECI]

0500* -- January housing starts and construction orders
[JPHST=ECI]

0700 -- Iranian parliament's chairperson Ali Larijani to hold
a news conference at the Japan National Press Club

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