Main events scheduled in Japan for Friday, April 21:

-- Yasukuni Shrine's three-day spring festival to begin.

-- Nationwide consumer price index for March, fiscal 2022 to be released by internal affairs ministry.

-- Tokyo District Court to hand down rulings on former chairman of Aoki Holdings Inc. and two others over Tokyo Olympics bribery scandal at 10 a.m.

==Kyodo

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