Main events scheduled in Japan for July:

July 1 (Fri)

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

-- Bank of Japan to release June Tankan business sentiment survey.

-- Unemployment rate for May to be released by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

-- Ratio of job offers to job seekers for May to be released by Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

-- New motor vehicle sales for June to be released by Japan Automobile Dealers Association.

-- Mt. Fuji to open on the Yamanashi Prefecture side for this year's climbing season.

July 2 (Sat)

-- No major events.

July 3 (Sun)

-- No major events.

July 4 (Mon)

-- No major events.

July 5 (Tue)

-- No major events.

July 6 (Wed)

-- New vehicle sales data by model for June to be released by Japan Automobile Dealers Association.

July 7 (Thurs)

-- Preliminary composite indexes of economic indicators for May to be released by Cabinet Office.

-- Japanese government to levy additional sanctions against Russia by freezing assets of Russian Agricultural Bank and Credit Bank of Moscow.

July 8 (Fri)

-- Monthly "economy watchers" survey for June to be released by Cabinet Office.

-- Preliminary balance of payments statistics for May to be released by Finance Ministry.

July 9 (Sat)

-- No major events.

July 10 (Sun)

-- House of Councillors election to be held.

-- Shiga gubernatorial election to be held.

July 11 (Mon)

-- Machinery orders data for May to be released by Cabinet Office.

July 12 (Tue)

-- No major events.

July 13 (Wed)

-- Tokyo District Court to rule on case of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. shareholders demanding former executives pay damages of 22 trillion yen ($163 billion) to the company for neglecting anti-tsunami measures.

July 14 (Thurs)

-- No major events.

July 15 (Fri)

-- 100th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Communist Party.

July 16 (Sat)

-- No major events

July 17 (Sun)

-- No major events.

July 18 (Mon)

-- No major events.

July 19 (Tue)

-- No major events.

July 20 (Wed)

-- Bank of Japan to hold two-day monetary policy meeting.

-- Akutagawa, Naoki literary award recipients to be selected.

July 21 (Thurs)

-- Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda to hold press conference.

-- Customs-cleared trade statistics for June to be released by Cabinet Office.

July 22 (Fri)

-- Nationwide consumer price index for June to be released by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

July 23 (Sat)

-- One-year anniversary of the opening of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with ceremony at National Stadium.

July 24 (Sun)

-- No major events.

July 25 (Mon)

-- No major events.

July 26 (Tue)

-- Bank of Japan to release minutes of June 16-17 Policy Board meeting.

July 27 (Wed)

-- No major events.

July 28 (Thurs)

-- No major events.

July 29 (Fri)

-- Unemployment rate for June to be released by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

-- Ratio of job offers to job seekers for June to be released by Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

-- Preliminary industrial production index for June to be released by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

-- Bank of Japan to release summary of opinions from July 20-21 monetary policy meeting.

July 30 (Sat)

-- No major events.

July 31 (Sun)

-- No major events.

==Kyodo

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