Main events scheduled for February

Main events scheduled in Japan for February:

In February

-- Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to visit Japan.

Feb. 1 (Wed)

-- Domestic auto sales for January to be released by Japan Automobile Dealers Association.

-- Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike to visit London through Feb. 4.

Feb. 2 (Thurs)

-- No major events.

Feb. 3 (Fri)

-- No major events.

Feb. 4 (Sat)

-- Sapporo Snow Festival to be held through Feb. 11.

Feb. 5 (Sun)

-- Gubernatorial election to be held in Aichi Prefecture.

Feb. 6 (Mon)

-- New motor vehicle sales figures on car-model basis for February to be released by Japan Automobile Dealers Association.

Feb. 7 (Tues)

-- Household spending data for mber, whole of 2022 to be released by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

-- Hiroshima District Court to hand down ruling on lawsuit filed by 28 children of Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors seeking compensation from the state for failing to provide support to them.

Feb. 8 (Wed)

-- Results of "economy watchers" survey for January to be released by Cabinet Office.

-- Balance of payments statistics for December, whole of 2022 to be released by Finance Ministry.

Feb. 9 (Thurs)

-- Osaka High Court to rule on appeals case on damages suit filed against the state and Osaka Prefecture by Keiko Aoki, who was detained for about 20 years and found not guilty in a retrial following the death of her elementary school-age daughter in a 1995 fire in Osaka.

Feb. 10 (Fri)

-- No major events.

Feb. 11 (Sat)

-- National Foundation Day.

Feb. 12 (Sun)

-- No major events.

Feb. 13 (Mon)

-- Tokyo District Court to hand down ruling for SMBC Nikko Securities Inc., former executive indicted for violating the financial instruments and exchange law in a market manipulation scandal.

Feb. 14 (Tues)

-- Preliminary gross domestic product data for October-December period to be released by Cabinet Office.

Feb. 15 (Wed)

-- Number of foreign visitors to Japan in January to be released by Japan National Tourism Organization.

Feb. 16 (Thurs)

-- Customs-cleared trade statistics for January to be released by Finance Ministry.

-- Machinery orders for December, whole of 2022 to be released by Cabinet Office.

Feb. 17 (Fri)

-- No major events.

Feb. 18 (Sat)

-- No major events.

Feb. 19 (Sun)

-- No major events.

Feb. 20 (Mon)

-- No major event.

Feb. 21 (Tues)

-- Female giant panda Xiang Xiang to be returned to China from Ueno Zoological Gardens.

-- Otsu District Court to rule on damages lawsuit filed against government by parents of first lieutenant who died by suicide at a Ground Self-Defense Force garrison after becoming depressed from overwork.

Feb. 22 (Wed)

-- Eimei, China-born giant panda at Adventure World zoo in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, who fathered 16 cubs, to leave for China along with 2 of his offspring.

Feb. 23 (Thurs)

-- Emperor Naruhito's 63rd birthday.

Feb. 24 (Fri)

-- National consumer price indexes for January to be released by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

-- Shizuoka District Court rule on damages suit filed against government by woman over forced sterilization surgery under now-defunct eugenic protection law.

Feb. 25 (Sat)

-- No major events.

Feb. 26 (Sun)

-- Liberal Democratic Party to hold party congress in Tokyo.

Feb. 27 (Mon)

-- No major events.

Feb. 28 (Tues)

-- Preliminary industrial production index for January to be released by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

-- Yamaguchi District Court to hand down ruling on man accused of illegally transferring COVID-19 relief money, mistakenly wired to him by a municipal government in Yamaguchi Prefecture, to a different bank account to use for online gambling.

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