Main events scheduled in Japan for Dec. 9-15:
Dec. 9 (MON)
-- Extraordinary Diet session ends.
-- Empress Masako to turn 56.
-- Cabinet Office to release revised gross domestic product data for July-September period.
-- Finance Ministry to release preliminary balance of payments statistics for October.
-- Cabinet Office to release results of monthly "economy watchers" survey for November.
Dec. 10 (TUES)
-- No major events.
Dec. 11 (WED)
-- Bank of Japan to release corporate goods price index for November.
Dec. 12 (THURS)
-- Cabinet Office to release machinery orders for October.
-- Takamatsu High Court to give ruling on former Japanese fishermen seeking compensation over radiation exposure from 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb tests in Bikini Atoll.
-- Chief Buddhist priest of Kyoto's Kiyomizu Temple to write Chinese character best symbolizing this year's social mood in Japan, in annual event.
Dec. 13 (FRI)
-- Bank of Japan to release December Tankan business sentiment survey.
Dec. 14 (SAT)
-- No major events.
Dec. 15 (SUN)
-- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to visit India through Dec. 17.
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