DIARY-Japan - Sept 2 -PM Kan, challenger Ozawa to hold debate

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Thursday, Sept. 2

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

2350* -- Weekly capital fund flow data.

2350* -- Monetary base data for August

COMPANIES

0330 -- Delta Airlines (DAL.N) to brief about its Asia
business outlook and strategy

0400 -- Prime Minister Naoto Kan and ruling party powerbroker
Ichiro Ozawa, who are running in ruling Democratic Party
leadership race, to hold debate at Japan National Press Club.

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Friday, Sept. 3

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

-- Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda holds post-cabinet meeting
news conference.

2350* -- Ministry of Finance survey on corporate capital
spending for April-June. [JPBUSX=ECI] ECONJP

0600 -- Nobuaki Koga, President of Japanese Trade Union
Confederation to speak at Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan.

0930 -- Farm ministry announces wheat tender results.

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Monday, Sept. 6

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

-- Bank of Japan begins two-day policy meeting.

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Tuesday, Sept. 7

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

-- Bank of Japan ends two-day board meeting, announces policy
decision.

0500 -- Leading and coincident indicators for July.
[JPLEIN-ECI] [JPCIIN=ECI] ECONJP

0630 -- BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa holds news conference.

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Wednesday, Sept. 8

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

2350* -- Machinery orders for July [JPMORD=ECI] ECONJP

2350* -- Current account balance for July [JPCURA=ECI]
[JPDEF=ECIJP]

2350* -- Bank lending, money stock data for August.
[JPBNK=ECI]

0430 -- Corporate bankruptcies for August [JPBARC=ECI]

0500 -- Bank of Japan monthly economic report

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Thursday, Sept. 9

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

2350* -- Business survey index for July-September.
[JPBUSC=ECI] ECONJP

2350* -- Weekly capital fund flow data.

0500 -- Consumer confidence for August. [JPCONI=ECI]

COMPANIES

0200 -- Nissan Motor Co (7201.T) roundtable with president of
Nissan Motor Thailand

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Friday, Sept. 10

ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS

2350* -- Revised GDP for April-June. [JPGDR1=ECI]
[JPGDAR=ECI] [JPGDPR=ECI] ECONJP

2350* -- Corporate goods price index for August. [JPCGP=ECI]
[JPCGPY=ECI]

2350* -- Minutes from Bank of Japan's Aug. 9-10 monetary
policy meeting.

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