Main events scheduled in Japan for Friday, March 12:

--- Leaders of United States, Japan, Australia and India to meet virtually.

-- Finance Ministry to release business outlook survey for January-March period at 8:50 a.m.

-- Saga District Court to hand down rulings on two lawsuits by local residents who demanded Kyushu Electric Power halt operations of Nos. 3 and 4 reactors of Genkai nuclear plant in Saga Prefecture, and that state scrap approval for utility to run reactors.

==Kyodo

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