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.

==Kyodo

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