*Nikkei Ends Morning Session Down 1.50% At 9,550.18     

TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Japanese industrial production fell a seasonally adjusted 1.5% in June from the previous month, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Friday, due in part to a decline in output of automobiles as well as electronic devices.

TOKYO (Kyodo)--Japan's seasonally adjusted jobless rate in June rose to 5.3 percent, up 0.1 point from 5.2 percent the previous month, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said Friday.

TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Japan's core consumer price index fell 1.0% from a year earlier in June, government data showed Friday, in another sign that the country's economy remains mired in deflation despite the economic recovery.

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** Statistics to be released

0830: Nationwide consumer price index for June, Tokyo's CPI for July (Internal Affairs Ministry)

0830: Unemployment rate for June (Internal Affairs Ministry)

0830: Job offers-to-seekers ratio for June (Labor Ministry)

0830: Average household spending for June (Internal Affairs Ministry)

0850: Preliminary industrial production index for June (METI)

1300: Car production, exports for June, first half of 2010 (Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association)

1400: Housing starts for June (Infrastructure Ministry)

1400: Construction orders for June (Infrastructure Ministry)

1900: July forex interventions (MOF)

** Earnings for three months through June

N/A: Oji Paper, Nippon Paper Group, Sumitomo Chemical, Takeda Pharmaceutical, Daiichi Sankyo, Fujifilm Holdings, Konica Minolta Holdings, Toto, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Seiko Epson, Keyence, Denso, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Mazda Motor, Honda Motor, Fuji Heavy Industries, Marubeni, Tokyo Electron, Sumitomo Corp., Mitsubishi Corp., Unicharm, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Resona Holdings, Mizuho Financial Group, Takefuji, Nomura Holdings, Mitsubishi Estate, Nippon Express, All Nippon Airways, Tokyo Electric Power

** Earnings for six months through June

N/A: Sapporo Holdings, Asahi Breweries, Showa Shell Sekiyu

** Other items

N/A: Cabinet meets

N/A: Extraordinary Diet session begins

N/A: BOJ releases policy board minutes for January through June 2000