Japan Calendar, May 9-13

The following is a calendar of expected financial events in Japan. Other calendars can be found at: {ECO JN <GO>} for economic indicators, {ACDR <GO>} for earnings, and {CACT <GO>} for corporate actions. Times may change.

May 9

Other Events: 08:50 Minutes of Bank of Japan monetary policy meeting held

on April 6-7. 11:00 Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano gives regular

press conference. 14:00 Goshi Hosono, adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, and

Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director-general at the

Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, hold press

conference on Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima

Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant at the Foreign

Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo. 15:30 Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of Keidanren and also

chairman of Sumitomo Chemical Co., gives regular press

conference. 16:00 Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano gives regular

press conference. 17:00 Fukushima nuclear disaster countermeasure headquarters

holds press conference on Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s

Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant.

Earnings: 11:30 Teijin Ltd. (3401) 13:00 Mitsubishi Estate Co. (8802) 13:30 Sumitomo Corp. (8053) 14:00 Ajinomoto Co. (2802) 15:00 Ebara Corp. (6361) 15:00 Softbank Corp. (9984) 15:00 Toshiba Corp. (6502) 15:30 Cosmo Oil Co. (5007)

May 10

Economic Releases: 11:00 Unit sales of new vehicles by brand for April. 11:00 Unit sales of light vehicles by brand for April. 11:00 Unit sales of imported vehicles for April.

Other Events: NA Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Economy Minister

Kaoru Yosano and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano

give press conference following a Cabinet meeting. 10:20 Auction notice of treasury discount bills. 10:30 Announcement of 40-year Japanese government bonds. 10:30 Auction notice for enhanced liquidity. 12:35 Auction result of treasury discount bills. 12:45 Result of the auction for enhanced-liquidity. 15:00 Shojiro Matsuura, former chairman of Nuclear Safety

Commission, gives press conference at Japan National

Press Club in Tokyo. 16:00 Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano gives regular

press conference. 17:00 Fukushima nuclear disaster countermeasure headquarters

holds press conference on Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s

Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant.

Earnings: 13:00 Mitsubishi Corp. (8058) 13:00 Toray Industries Inc. (3402) 15:00 NEC Corp. (6701) 15:00 Orient Corp. (8585) 15:30 Hoya Corp. (7741) 15:30 Namco Bandai Holdings Inc. (7832) 15:30 Orix Corp. (8591)

May 11

Economic Releases: 08:50 Bank of Japan’s transactions with the government,

April. 08:50 Monetary base and the Bank of Japan’s transactions,

April. 13:30 Indexes of industrial domestic shipments and exports

for March. 14:00 Domestic mobile phone shipments for March. 14:00 Diffusion indexes for March.

Others: 10:20 Auction notice of treasury discount bills. 11:00 Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano gives regular

press conference. 12:35 Auction result of treasury discount bills. 13:00 KDDI Corp., Softbank Corp., NTT DoCoMo Inc. announce

net change and accumulated mobile phone contracts for

April. 15:00 Amounts outstanding in the call market, April. 16:00 Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano gives regular

press conference. 17:00 Fukushima nuclear disaster countermeasure headquarters

holds press conference on Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s

Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant.

Earnings: 11:00 Nissin Foods Holdings Co. (2897) 12:00 Asahi Kasei Corp. (3407) 13:00 Sumitomo Chemical Co. (4005) 13:30 Mitsui Chemicals Inc. (4183) 14:00 Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp. (4188) 14:00 Nishimatsu Construction Co. (1820) 14:00 Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. (4502) 14:30 Taisei Corp. (1801) 15:00 Citizen Holdings Co. (7762) 15:00 Daikin Industries Ltd. (6367) 15:00 Pioneer Corp. (6773) 15:00 Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) 15:30 Inpex Corp. (1605) 15:30 Hitachi Ltd. (6501)

May 12

Economic Releases: 08:50 Trade balance for March. 08:50 Money supply for April. 08:50 Principal figures of financial institutions, April. 11:00 Office vacancy rate. 15:00 Machine tool orders for April, preliminary.

Other Events: 10:00 Bank of Japan accounts as of May 10. 10:30 Auction notice of 10-year Japanese government bonds. 10:30 Announcement of 5-year Japanese government bonds. 11:00 Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano gives regular

press conference. 12:45 Auction result of 10-year Japanese government bonds. 14:00 Kunihiko Shimazaki, chairman of the Coordinating

Committee for Earthquake Prediction, gives press

conference at Japan National Press Club in Tokyo. 16:00 Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano gives regular

press conference. 17:00 Fukushima nuclear disaster countermeasure headquarters

holds press conference on Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s

Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant.

Earnings: 11:30 Yamaha Motor Co. (7272) 13:00 Oji Paper Co. (3861) 13:00 JX Holdings Inc. (5020) 13:30 Daiichi Sankyo Co. (4568) 13:30 Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. (3099) 14:30 Astellas Pharma Inc. (4503) 14:30 Sumitomo Realty & Development Co. (8830) 15:00 Shinsei Bank Ltd. (8303) 15:00 Japan Tobacco Inc. (2914) 15:00 Elpida Memory Inc. (6665) 15:00 Konica Minolta Holdings Inc. (4902) 15:00 Nissan Motor Co. (7201) 15:30 Dentsu Inc. (4324) 15:30 Nikon Corp. (7731) 15:30 Acom Co. (8572) 16:00 Otsuka Holdings Co. (4578) 16:00 Aozora Bank Ltd. (8304)

May 13

Other Events: NA Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Economy Minister

Kaoru Yosano and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano

give press conference following a Cabinet meeting. 12:00 Makoto Iokibe, chief of government advisory panel on

disaster reconstruction, meets press at Japan National

Press Club in Tokyo. 16:00 Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano gives regular

press conference. 17:00 Fukushima nuclear disaster countermeasure headquarters

holds press conference on Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s

Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant.

Earnings: 11:00 Shimizu Corp. (1803) 11:30 JGC Corp. (1963) 13:00 Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (8309) 13:30 Kajima Corp. (1812) 14:00 Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. (1662) 14:00 Obayashi Corp. (1802) 14:00 Tokyu Corp. (9005) 14:30 Yakult Honsha Co. (2267) 15:00 Credit Saison Co. (8253) 15:00 Dai Nippon Printing Co. (7912) 15:00 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (9432) 15:00 Resona Holdings Inc. (8308) 15:30 Promise Co. (8574) 16:00 Mizuho Financial Group Inc. (8411) 17:00 Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. (8316)