Main events scheduled in Japan for Jan. 23-29:
Jan. 23 (Mon)
-- Ordinary Diet session to be convened.
-- Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to deliver policy speech in parliament.
-- Minutes of Dec. 19-20 Policy Board meeting to be released by Bank of Japan.
-- Head of Japan Business Federation, known as Keidanren, and head of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, to hold meeting about annual "shunto" spring wage negotiations.
-- Kumamoto District Court to rule on damages suit filed against government by two people over forced sterilization surgeries under now-defunct eugenic protection law.
Jan. 24 (Tues)
-- Nagasaki District Court to rule on 2 million yen damages suit against Nagasaki's prefectural government by American assistant language teacher over its handling of her allegations of sexual harassment including by her boss.
Jan. 25 (Wed)
-- Monthly economic report for January to be released by Cabinet Office.
-- Supreme Court's Grand Bench to rule on appeals case on suit filed by two groups of lawyers seeking to invalidate October 2021 lower house election over vote value disparity.
-- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to launch an H-2A rocket carrying a Japanese government intelligence-gathering satellite.
Jan. 26 (Thurs)
-- Summary of opinions from Jan. 17-18 monetary policy meeting to be released by Bank of Japan.
Jan. 27 (Fri)
-- Tokyo consumer price index for January to be released by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
-- Tokyo District Court to rule on damages suit by the family of a murdered female high school student against judge Kiichi Okaguchi for posting inappropriate messages on social media in connection to her case.
Jan. 28 (Sat)
-- No major events.
Jan. 29 (Sun)
-- No major events.