Main events scheduled in Japan for Friday, Dec. 25:

-- Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to release unemployment rate for November at 8:30 a.m.

-- Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to release ratio of job offers to job seekers for November at 8:30 a.m.

-- Wireless communication carrier NTT Docomo Inc. to delist from Tokyo Stock Exchange to become wholly owned unit of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.

==Kyodo

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