Main events scheduled in Japan for Monday, July 31:

-- Consumer sentiment data for July to be released by Cabinet Office at 2 p.m.

-- Preliminary industrial production index for June to be released by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry at 8:50 a.m.

-- Tokyo District Court's Tachikawa branch to hand down ruling on Kyota Hattori, accused of a 2021 knife attack and arson in an incident on a Tokyo train while wearing a Joker costume.

==Kyodo

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