Main events scheduled in Japan for Monday, Jan. 17:

-- Ordinary Diet session to be convened.

-- Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to deliver policy speech in parliament.

-- Bank of Japan to hold 2-day monetary policy board meeting.

-- Cabinet Office to release machinery orders for November at 8:50 a.m.

-- 27th anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake, which devastated Kobe, vicinity.

==Kyodo

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