Main events scheduled in Japan for Friday, Jan. 26:

-- Ordinary Diet session to be convened.

-- Minutes of Dec. 18-19 Policy Board meeting to be released by Bank of Japan.

-- Tokyo's consumer price index for January to be released by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications at 8:30 a.m.

-- Osaka High Court to hand down ruling at 3 p.m. on damages lawsuit filed against state by couple in their 70s over forced sterilization surgery under now-defunct eugenic protection law.

==Kyodo

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