Main events scheduled in Japan for Monday, April 19:

-- Finance Ministry to release preliminary customs-cleared trade statistics for March at 8:50 a.m.

-- Osaka High Court to hand down ruling on Yasutaka Kakimoto and his wife Yukari, accused of illegally confining their daughter and abandoning their responsibility as parents, resulting in her death.

-- Odakyu Electric Railway Co. to open Romancecar Museum in Ebina, Kanagawa Prefecture.

==Kyodo

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