Main events scheduled in Japan for Friday, Feb. 19:

-- Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to release nationwide consumer price index for January at 8:30 a.m.

-- Tokyo High Court to hand down ruling in damages suit filed by Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuees in Chiba Prefecture against state, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. at 3 p.m.

==Kyodo

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