Main events scheduled in Japan for Wednesday, June 30:

-- Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to release preliminary industrial production index for May at 8:50 a.m.

-- Cabinet Office to release consumer sentiment data for June at 2 p.m.

-- Operators of shinkansen bullet trains to finish removing all on-board pay phones. They were 1st installed in 1965.

-- Event ticket vendor Pia Corp. to finish closing down all booths nationwide. They were 1st opened in 1984.

==Kyodo

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