Main events scheduled in Japan for Wednesday, April 8:

-- Abe's state of emergency declaration to take effect.

-- Finance Ministry to release preliminary balance of payments statistics for February at 8:50 a.m.

-- Cabinet Office to release machinery orders data for February at 8:50 a.m.

-- Cabinet Office to release monthly "economy watchers" survey for March at 2 p.m.

-- Tokyo Shoko Research to release corporate bankruptcy reports for FY 2019 and March.

-- Rakuten Inc. to begin full-scale mobile phone services.

==Kyodo

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