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DIARY-Japan-July 6 -BOJ's Shirakawa to make speech

Sun Jul 5, 2009 6:00pm EDT

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that Reuters will report on that item.
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 Monday, July 6
 ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
 0000 -- Bank of Japan branch managers' meeting
 0030 -- BOJ releases text of speech by Governor Masaaki
Shirakawa
 0500 -- BOJ releases regional economic report
 0500 -- Leading and coincident indicators for May
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 Tuesday, July 7
 ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
 -- Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano and Economics Minister
Yoshimasa Hayashi hold news conferences after Cabinet meeting.
 2350 -- June foreign reserves data [JPRES=ECI]
 0130 -- 40-year JGB auction
 0300 -- Anime director Yoshiyuki Tomino, creator of the first
Gundam anime series, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents Club of
Japan. (www.fccj.or.jp/node/4696)
 0345 -- 40-year JGB auction result
 0600 -- Kang Chol-hwan, former North Korean concentration
camp inmate and Choson Ilbo reporter, to speak at the Foreign
Correspondents Club of Japan about life in a North Korean
concentration camp and what is happening in the country today.
 COMPANIES
 -- Reuters Japan Investment Summit 
(here)
 0400 -- Sony Corp (6758.T) to unveil new Vaio PC models
 0600 -- Aeon Co Ltd (8267.T) Q1 earnings
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 Wednesday, July 8
 ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
 2350* -- Machinery orders for May [JPMORD=ECI] ECONJP
 2350* -- Current account data for May [JPCURA=ECI]
 2350* -- Bank lending data for June [JPBNK=ECI]
 2350* -- Money stock for June
 0300 -- Weekly crude oil and petroleum product stocks data
 0400 -- Corporate bankruptcy data for June
 0500 -- Economy watchers' survey for June [JPEWDI=ECI]
 COMPANIES
 -- Reuters Japan Investment Summit
  (here)
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 Thursday, July 9
 ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
 0130 -- Liquidity-enhancing JGB auction
 0415 -- Liquidity-enhancing JGB auction result
 COMPANIES
 0600 - Fast Retailing (9983.T) Q3 results
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 Friday, July 10
 ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
 -- Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano and Economics Minister
Yoshimasa Hayashi hold news conferences after Cabinet meeting.
 2350* -- June corporate goods price index [JPCGP=ECI]
[JPCGPY=ECI] ECONJP
 0800 -- Opposition Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio
Hatoyama to hold a news conference at Japan Press Club
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 Monday, July 13
 ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
 0430 -- Revised industrial output for May [JPIP4=ECI]
ECONJP
 0500 -- Consumer sentiment survey for June [JPCONI=ECI]
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 Tuesday, July 14
 ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
 -- Bank of Japan begins a two-day policy board meeting
[JPINTR=ECI]
 -- Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano and Economics Minister
Yoshimasa Hayashi hold news conferences after Cabinet meeting.
 COMPANIES
 0430 -- Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) unveils new Lexus HS250h
hybrid model
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 Wednesday, July 15
 ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
 -- Bank of Japan monetary policy decision [JPINTR=ECI]
followed by news conference by BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa
 0300 -- Weekly crude oil and petroleum product stocks
 0300 -- Former Bush administration officials, Stephen Yates
and Christian Whiton, speak on U.S. foreign policy at Foreign
Correspondents Club of Japan (www.fccj.or.jp/node/4705)
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 Thursday, July 16
 ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
 2330 -- Reuters Tankan [JPRTAN=ECI] ECONJP
 0130 -- Five-year JGB auction
 0345 -- Five-year JGB auction result
 0500 -- Bank of Japan releases monthly economic report for
July
 COMPANIES
  0300 -- Tokyo Stock Exchange CEO Atsushi Saito speaks on the
financial crisis and corporate governance at the Foreign
Correspondents Club of Japan. (www.fccj.or.jp/node/4683)
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 Friday, July 17
 ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
 -- Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano and Economics Minister
Yoshimasa Hayashi hold news conferences after Cabinet meeting.
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 Monday, July 20
 No major events scheduled
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 Tuesday, July 21
 ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
 2350* -- Bank of Japan releases minutes of June 15-16 policy
board meeting
 -- Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano and Economics Minister
Yoshimasa Hayashi hold news conferences after Cabinet meeting.
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 Wednesday, July 22
 ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
 0130 -- BOJ Deputy Governor Hirohide Yamaguchi delivers
speech to business leaders in Hakodate, northern Japan.
 0130 -- 20-year JGB auction
 0345 -- 20-year JGB auction result
 0530 -- BOJ's Yamaguchi holds a news conference
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 Thursday, July 23
 ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
 0300 -- Weekly crude oil and petroleum product stocks
 0500 -- 3-month weather forecast
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 Friday, July 24
 No major events scheduled
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