Main events scheduled in Japan for Friday, July 1:

-- Government to ask households, companies to cut power consumption through Sept. 30 to avert outages.

-- Land prices in Japan as of Jan. 1 to be released by the National Tax Agency.

-- Bank of Japan to release June Tankan business sentiment survey at 8:50 a.m.

-- Unemployment rate for May to be released by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications at 8:30 a.m.

-- Ratio of job offers to job seekers for May to be released by Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare at 8:30 a.m.

==Kyodo

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