(i)Preferred Equity Investment Certificates:Preferred Equity Investment Certificates as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (vii) of the Act;

(ii)Investment Securities:Investment Securities as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xi) of the Act;

(iii)Investment Equity Subscription Rights Certificates: Investment Equity Subscription Rights Certificates as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xi) of the Act;

(iv)Foreign Investment Securities:Foreign Investment Securities as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xi) of the Act;

(v)Options:Options as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xix) of the Act;

(vi)Exclusive Offer to Sell, etc. to Professional Investors:Exclusive Offer to Sell, etc. to Professional Investors as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (6) of the Act;

(vii)Foreign Financial Instruments Market:a Foreign Financial Instruments Market as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (iii), (b) of the Act;

(viii)Over-the-Counter Traded Securities:Over-the-Counter Traded Securities as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (x), (c) of the Act;

(ix)Discretionary Investment Contract:a Discretionary Investment Contract as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xii), (b) of the Act;

(x)Exclusive Solicitation of Professional Investors for Offers to Acquire:Exclusive Solicitation of Professional Investors for Offers to Acquire as prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Act;

(xi)Corporate Group:a Corporate Group as prescribed Article 5, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act;

(xii)Listed Share Certificates, etc.:Listed Share Certificates, etc. as prescribed in Article 24-6, paragraph (1) of the Act;

(xiii)Specified Information on Securities, etc.:Specified Information on Securities, etc. as prescribed in Article 27-33 of the Act;

(xiv)Financial Instruments Business Operators, etc.:Financial Instruments Business Operators, etc. as prescribed in Article 34 of the Act;

(xv)Contract for Cumulative Investment:a Contract for Cumulative Investment as prescribed in Article 35, paragraph (1), item (vii) of the Act;

(xvi)to Entrust, etc.:to Entrust, etc. as prescribed in Article 44, item (i) of the Act;

(xvii)Member, etc.:a Member, etc. as prescribed in Article 81, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Act;

(xviii)Over-the-Counter Securities Market:an Over-the-Counter Securities Market as prescribed in Article 67, paragraph (2) of the Act;

(xix)Tradable Securities:Tradable Securities as prescribed in Article 67-18, item (iv) of the Act;

(xx)Listed Company, etc.:a Listed Company, etc. as prescribed in Article 163, paragraph (1) of the Act;

(xxi)Listed Investment Corporation, etc.:a Listed Investment Corporation, etc. as prescribed in Article 163, paragraph (1) of the Act;

(xxii)Specified Securities:Specified Securities as prescribed in Article 163, paragraph (1) of the Act;

(xxiii)Related Securities:Related Securities as prescribed in Article 163, paragraph (1) of the Act;

(xxiv)Specified Securities, etc.:Specified Securities, etc. as prescribed in Article 163, paragraph (1) of the Act; and

(xxv)Specified Partnerships, etc.:Specified Partnerships, etc. as prescribed in Article 165-2, paragraph (1) of the Act.

(i)Stabilizing Transaction:a Stabilizing Transaction as prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (1) the Order for Enforcement of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (hereinafter referred to as "the Order");

(ii)Short Selling:Short Selling as prescribed in Article 26-2-2, paragraph (1) of the Order;

(iii)Margin Transaction:a Margin Transaction as prescribed in Article 1, paragraph (1) of the Cabinet Office Order on Security Deposits and Transactions, Provided in Article 161-2 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (Ministry of Finance Order No. 75 of 1953; referred to as the "Cabinet Office Order on Security Deposits" in the following item);

(iv)When-Issued Transaction:a When-Issued Transaction as prescribed in Article 1, paragraph (2) of the Cabinet Office Order on Security Deposits;

(iv)-2Beneficiary Certificates of Securities in Trust:Beneficiary Certificates of Securities in Trust as prescribed in Article 2-3, item (iii) of the Order;

(iv)-3Entrusted Securities:Entrusted Securities as prescribed in Article 2-3, item (iii) of the Order;

(v)Market Maker:a Member, etc. that quotes bids and offers for Securities of a specific issue on a regular and continuous basis in a Financial Instruments Exchange Market established by a Financial Instruments Exchange, pursuant to the rules specified by the Financial Instruments Exchange;

(vi)Over-the-Counter Market Maker:the Member of an Authorized Financial Instruments Firms Association that quotes bids and offers for Over-the-Counter Traded Securities of a specific issue on a regular and continuous basis in an Over-the-Counter Securities Market established by the Authorized Financial Instruments Firms Association, pursuant to the rules specified by the Authorized Financial Instruments Firms Association;

(vii)Share Certificates with Put Options:share certificates for shares with put options as prescribed in Article 2, item (xviii) of the Companies Act (Act No. 86 of 2005);

(viii)Share Certificates Subject to Call:share certificates for shares subject to call as prescribed in Article 2, item (xix) of the Companies Act;

(ix)Seller-Related Securities:Related Securities (but only the Related Securities set forth in Article 27-4, item (iii) of the Order) indicating an Option for a purchase and sale of Specified Securities (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of seller in the associated purchase and sale of Specified Securities);

(x)Seller-Related Share Certificates, etc.:Related Share Certificates, etc. as set forth in Article 33-2, item (iii) of the Order that indicate an Option for the purchase and sale of Specified Share Certificates, etc. (meaning Specified Share Certificates, etc. as prescribed in Article 167, paragraph (1) of the Act; hereinafter the same applies in this item) (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of seller in the associated purchase and sale of Specified Share Certificates, etc.);

(xi)Cooperative Structured Financial Institution:a Cooperative Structured Financial Institution as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Preferred Equity Investment by Cooperative Structured Financial Institutions (Act No. 44 of 1993; hereinafter referred to as the "Act on Preferred Equity Investment");

(xii)Amount of Net Assets:the amount arrived at when the total amount of book value of the debt is deducted from the amount of book value of the total assets (or zero, if the amount so calculated is less than zero); and

(xiii)Fixed Assets:Fixed Assets set forth in Article 2, item (xxii) of the Corporation Tax Act (Act No. 34 of 1965).

(i)the trade name and the locality of the head office of the Financial Instruments Business Operator that effected the stabilization transaction (or its principal business office or office in Japan, if the Financial Instruments Business Operator is a foreign corporation; the same applies in the following item, Article 7, paragraph (1), and Article 8, paragraph (1));

(ii)the trade name and the locality of the head office of any Financial Instruments Business Operator effecting stabilizing transactions jointly with the Financial Instruments Business Operator that has effected the stabilizing transaction in question;

(iii)the date and time of the commencement of the stabilizing transaction;

(iv)whether the Securities subject to the stabilizing transaction are Securities listed on a Financial Instruments Exchange (hereinafter referred to as "Listed Securities" in this Article and the following Article) or Over-the-Counter Traded Securities and the issue name thereof;

(v)the concluded price of the stabilizing transaction;

(vi)the following particulars, if the Securities subject to the stabilizing transaction are Listed Securities:

(vii)the following particulars, if the Securities subject to the stabilizing transaction are Over-the-Counter Traded Securities:

(viii)the issue name, issue price, or distribution price of the Securities whose Public Offering, Exclusive Solicitation of Professional Investors for Offers to Acquire, or Secondary Distribution or Solicitation for Selling Only for Professional Investors the person sought to facilitate through a stabilizing transaction (or the issue price and features or the distribution price of the share options, in the case of corporate bond certificates with share options) as well as the total issue value or total distribution value thereof;

(ix)the period during which a stabilizing transaction may be conducted for the Securities subject to the stabilizing transaction; and

(x)any other information of reference.

(i)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (i) of the Act;

(ii)a When-Issued Transaction;

(iii)a transaction in which the person in question conducts Short Selling for the following Securities:

(iv)a transaction in which a Member, etc. of a Financial Instruments Exchange conducts, on its own account, Short Selling of Securities listed on that Financial Instruments Exchange (but only for the Foreign Investment Securities or Securities as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xvii) of the Act that have the nature of share certificates (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Foreign Investment Securities, etc." in this item), Beneficiary Certificates of Securities in a Trust wherein the Entrusted Securities are Foreign Investment Securities, etc., or Securities as set forth in item (xx) of that paragraph that indicate rights associated with Foreign Investment Securities, etc.) that is accompanied by a related transaction in which the Member, etc. conducts a purchase of Securities that are subject to the Short Selling by the Member, etc. in a Foreign Financial Instruments Market (or, if the Securities subject to the Short Selling are Beneficiary Securities of Securities in Trust, a related transaction in which the Member, etc. acquires those Beneficiary Securities of Securities in Trust by placing in trust Securities that it already holds or will purchase in a Foreign Financial Instruments Market which are of the same issue as the Entrusted Securities to which the Beneficiary Securities of Securities in Trust that are subject to the Short Selling pertain; or, if the Securities subject to the Short Selling are the Securities as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xx) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as "Depository Receipts" in this item), a related transaction in which the Member, etc. acquires those Depository Receipts by placing on deposit Securities that it already holds or will purchase in a Foreign Financial Instruments Market which are of the same issue as the Securities to which the rights indicated on the Depository Receipts that are subject to the Short Selling pertain) (but only the transactions set forth in the following items):

(v)a transaction in which a Market Maker conducts Short Selling on its own account in the Financial Instruments Exchange Market on which it quotes sale prices, based on the sale quotes;

(vi)a transaction in which a person sells Securities purchased thereby (other than Securities associated with Short Selling that the person in question has purchased through a person offering to entrust the person in question with Short Selling on a Financial Instruments Exchange Market or to have the person in question broker another person's entrustment with the same, in lieu of undertaking to broker another person's entrustment with Short Selling) whose settlement has yet to be completed, and settles that sale with the Securities purchased thereby;

(vii)a sale of Securities (excluding those that the person in question has borrowed) that are on loan to another person, in a transaction to sell those Securities in a situation in which it is clear that they will be returned prior to the settlement of the sale;

(viii)a transaction in which the relevant person conducts Short Selling through purchase and sales on a Financial Instruments Exchange Market that are conducted outside of the trading session (inclusive of a trading session that is only a morning session or an afternoon session; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter and the following Chapter) specified in the operational rules of the Financial Instruments Exchange that operates the Financial Instruments Exchange Market;

(ix)a transaction to sell share certificates or Investment Securities (hereinafter referred to as "Share Certificates, etc." in this item) of the same issue as, and within the scope of the volume of, the Share Certificates, etc. that the relevant person, having exercised a right to acquire Share Certificates, etc. that is attached to one of the following Securities, will come to acquire as a result of that right having been exercised:

(x)a transaction to sell share certificates of the same issue as, and within the scope of the volume of, the share certificates that the Issuer of Securities will come to acquire as a result of the rights attached to Share Certificates subject to Call having been exercised, if the Issuer of Securities has exercised that right;

(xi)a transaction in which the relevant person sells Share Certificates, etc. of the same issue as, and within the scope of the volume of, the Share Certificates, etc. that the person will receive in redeeming corporate bond certificates (inclusive of the Securities set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xvii) of the Act which have the nature of corporate bond certificates, but not corporate bond certificates with share options (inclusive of the Securities set forth in that item which have the nature of corporate bond certificates with share options)) that carry a special provision indicating that they may be redeemed using Share Certificates, etc. (meaning share certificates or Securities as set forth in (a) of the following item; hereinafter the same applies in this item) that a person other than the Issuer of those corporate bond certificates has issued, if it has been decided that those corporate bond certificates will be redeemed using such Share Certificates, etc.;

(xii)a transaction in which the relevant person sells Securities of the same issue as, and within the scope of the volume of, the shares, Preferred Equity Investment (meaning Preferred Equity Investment as prescribed in the Act on Preferred Equity Investment; the same applies hereinafter), beneficial interest associated with the following Securities (hereinafter referred to as "Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc." in this Chapter) (inclusive of anything equivalent to this in a foreign state), or investment equities (meaning investment equities as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (14) of the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations (Act No. 198 of 1951); the same applies hereinafter) (hereinafter referred to in this item as "Shares, etc.") that the person has been allotted due to a share split, split of Preferred Equity Investment associated with Preferred Equity Investment Certificates, split of beneficial interests associated with Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc., or split of investment equities (hereinafter referred to as a "Share Split, etc." in this item), or due to an Allotment of Shares without Contribution (meaning Allotment of Shares without Contribution as prescribed in Article 185 of the Companies Act; the same applies hereinafter), merger, company split, share exchange, or share transfer, if the Issuer of the Securities carries out that Share Split, etc., Allotment of Shares without Contribution, merger, company split, share exchange, or share transfer:

(xiii)a transaction in which a person responding to a Public Offering, Secondary Distribution, Exclusive Solicitation of Professional Investors for Offers to Acquire, or Exclusive Offer to Sell, etc. to Professional Investors, sells Securities of the same issue as, and within the scope of the volume of, the Securities that the person will acquire a result of that Public Offering, Secondary Distribution, Exclusive Solicitation of Professional Investors for Offers to Acquire, or Exclusive Offer to Sell, etc. to Professional Investors;

(xiv)a transaction in which a person sells Securities of the same issue as, and within the scope of the volume of, the Securities that the person has purchased through a When-Issued Transaction, prior to the transfer of those Securities;

(xv)a transaction in which the relevant person carries out Short Selling (but only Short Selling that falls under Article 26-2-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Order; the same applies in item (v) of the following paragraph and paragraph (3), item (iv)) for any of the following reasons:

(xvi)the following transactions related to Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc.:

(xvii)a transaction as follows, in which a Member, etc. of a Financial Instruments Exchange conducts Short Selling on its own account for the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. or Investment Securities listed on that Financial Instruments Exchange, or in which a High-Speed Trader that has been designated as a person placing orders for the following transactions involving the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. that are listed on a Financial Instruments Exchange pursuant to the rules specified by that Financial Instruments Exchange, conducts Short Selling on its own account for those Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. based on the method specified by the Financial Instruments Exchange:

(xviii)a Margin Transaction;

(xix)a transaction in which a Member, etc. of a Financial Instruments Exchange, having promised its customer that it will purchase Securities held by that customer (but not those that the customer has borrowed and not the Securities as prescribed in Article 26-2 of the Order in a case constituting one as prescribed in that Article) at one of the following prices through a purchase and sale conducted outside a Financial Instruments Exchange Market or a trading session specified in the operational rules of a Financial Instruments Exchange, conducts, on its own account, a Short Selling transaction of Securities of the same issue as the Securities in question, within the scope of the volume of the Purchase in question (transactions as set forth in item (iii) are excluded, but only if sell orders will be executed in accordance with the program set in advance and the transaction is managed under a special account):

(xx)a transaction that a person carries out using the relationship between the trading price of the following Securities and the trading price of the share certificates or Investment Securities (hereinafter referred to as "Share Certificates, etc." in this item and the following item) that the person will come to acquire by exercising the rights attached to those Securities, in which the person newly purchases those Securities as well as selling Share Certificates, etc. of the same issue as and within the scope of the volume of the relevant Share Certificates, etc.:

(xxi)a transaction in which a person sells Share Certificates, etc. of the same issue as, and within the scope of the volume of, the Share Certificates, etc. that the person will come to acquire by exercising rights attached to the following Securities, in order to reduce the risk that could arise due to the fluctuation of prices associated with the outstanding balance from a purchase of those Securities (this includes a case in which the right to acquire the Securities has been granted by the Issuer of the Securities):

(xxii)a transaction as follows which is to be conducted using the relationship between the level of the agreed value or Agreed Figure (meaning an Agreed Figure as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (ii) of the Act; the same applies hereinafter) for a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (i) of the Act that involves Securities (hereinafter referred to as a "futures contract involving securities" in this item) or for a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (ii) of the Act that involves Securities (or a foreign market derivatives transaction similar thereto; hereinafter referred to as a "futures contract involving a securities index" in this Article) and the level of the Securities Index, etc. (meaning the total value of the Securities or Securities Indices (meaning the indices calculated based on the prices of Securities; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) that the futures contract involving securities involves; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) (or any equivalent transaction conducted by using a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act that involves a Securities Index, etc.; but not a transaction as set forth in item (iii) of this paragraph):

(xxiii)a transaction in which the relevant person sells multiple Securities of different issues (but only Securities selected so that the fluctuations in the total value of the Securities approximate the fluctuations of the Securities Index, etc. related to the relevant long-futures contract involving a securities index, etc.) within the scope of the transaction contract balance of a long-futures contract involving a securities index, etc. (but only the transaction contract balance remaining after the deduction of the transaction contract balance of the short-futures contract involving a securities index, etc., corresponding to the long-futures contract involving a securities index, etc. and the amount of the transactions set forth in (a) and (b) of the preceding item associated with the long-futures contract involving a securities index, etc.) which is to be conducted in order to reduce the risk that could arise due to the fluctuation of prices related to the transaction contract balance of the long-futures contract involving a securities index, etc. (or transactions equivalent thereto that the person conducts in connection with the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act associated with a Securities Index; but not the transactions set forth in item (iii));

(xxiv)a transaction that will be conducted using the relationship between the Exercise Price (meaning the price for the transaction which is established by a unilateral manifestation of intention by one of the parties) and the amount receivable for a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act involving a Security (hereinafter referred to as a "Security Option Contract" in this Article) and the trading price of Securities, in which a person both acquires the right to purchase Securities by forming a new Security Option Contract and sells Securities of the same issue as, and within the scope of the volume of, the Securities that the person will come to acquire if the person exercises that right, or in which a person both grants another person the right to sell Securities by forming a new Security Option Contract and sells Securities of the same issue as, and within the scope of the volume of, the Securities that the person will come to acquire if that right is exercised (but not a transaction as set forth in item (iii));

(xxv)a transaction in which the relevant person, having acquired a right to purchase Securities based on a Security Option Contract, sells Securities of the same issue as, and within the scope of the volume of, the Securities that the person will come to purchase if that person exercises that right, in order to reduce the potential risk arising from fluctuations in the amount receivable associated with the Security Option Contract (but not a transaction as set forth in item (iii)) or a transaction in which the relevant person, having granted another person the right to sell Securities through a Security Option Contract, sells Securities of the same issue as, and within the scope of the volume of, the Securities that the person will come to purchase if that right is exercised, in order to reduce the potential risk arising from fluctuations in the amount receivable associated with that Security Option Contract (but not a transaction as set forth in item (iii)) (if the person has acquired the right to sell those Securities based on a Security Option Contract, the volume in question is limited to what remains after the volume of the Securities that the person will come to sell if that person exercises that right and the volume of the transaction as set forth in the preceding item involving Securities of the same issue as the relevant Securities are deducted; and if the person has granted another person the right to purchase those Securities based on a Security Option Contract, the volume in question is limited to what remains after the volume of the Securities that the person will come to sell if that right is exercised and the volume of the transaction as set forth in the preceding item involving Securities of the same issue as the relevant Securities are deducted);

(xxvi)a transaction to be conducted using the relationship between the level of the agreed value of Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. and the level of the agreed value of other Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. to be invested based on the same money rate, value of currency, quotation on a Financial Instruments Exchange Market, or any other indicator (hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Indicator" in this Article) as the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc., in which the person in question both makes a new purchase of the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc., and also sells the other Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. within the scope of the purchase value thereof;

(xxvii)a transaction to be conducted using the relationship between the level of the agreed value and the level of the Indicator of Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. in which the person in question makes a new purchase of the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. and also sells indicator-linked securities (meaning Securities selected so that the fluctuations in the total value of the Securities approximate the fluctuations of the Indicator associated with the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this item through item (xxxii)) within scope of the purchase value (but only the sales of the multiple Securities of different issues, if the indicator-linked securities are multiple Securities of different issues; the same applies in the following item and item (xxxi) and item (xxxii)) (other than the transactions set forth in item (iii));

(xxviii)a transaction in which the relevant person sells indicator-linked securities within the scope of the purchase value thereof in order to reduce the potential risk arising from fluctuations in the price of the purchase balance of Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. (other than a transaction set forth in item (iii));

(xxix)a transaction as follows, conducted using the relationship between the level of the Agreed Figure or level of the Indicator associated with the futures contract involving a securities index and the level of the agreed value of Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc.:

(xxx)a transaction in which the person in question sells Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. within the scope of the transaction contract balance of a long-futures contract involving a securities index (but only the transaction contract balance remaining after the deduction of the transaction contract balance of short-futures contract involving a securities index corresponding thereto and the amount of the transactions set forth in item (xxii), (a) and (b) associated with the same long-futures contract involving a securities index as the long-futures contract involving a securities index in question) or the total amount of purchase value of the indicator-linked securities which are conducted in order to reduce any potential risks arising from fluctuations of prices associated with the transaction contract balance of the long-futures contract involving a securities index or the purchase balance of the indicator-linked securities;

(xxxi)a transaction that will be conducted using the relationship between the price level and the indicator level for Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc., in which a person both acquires the right to purchase Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. by forming a new transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act in connection with the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. (referred to as "Option Contract for Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc." in the following item) and sells indicator-linked securities within the scope of the amount of Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. that the person will acquire if the person exercises that right (other than a transaction as set forth in item (iii) or in which a person both grants another person the right to sell Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. by forming a new Option Contract for Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. and sells indicator-linked securities within the scope of the amount of Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. that the person will acquire if that right is exercised (such an amount is limited to that remaining after the amount of a transaction as set forth in item (xxiv) associated with Securities of the same issue as the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. is deducted));

(xxxii)a transaction in which the relevant person, having acquired a right to purchase Securities based on an Option Contract for Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc., sells indicator-linked securities within the scope of the value of the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. that the person will come to purchase if that person exercises that right, in order to reduce the potential risk arising from fluctuations in the price of the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. (but not a transaction as set forth in item (iii)) or a transaction in which the relevant person, having granted another person the right to sell Securities based on an Option Contract for Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc., sells indicator-linked securities within the scope of the value of the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. that the person will come to purchase if that right is exercised, in order to reduce the potential risk arising from fluctuations in the price of the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. (but not a transaction as set forth in item (iii)) (if the person has acquired the right to sell the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. based on an Option Contract for Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc., the value in question is limited to what remains after the amount of Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. that the person will come to sell if that person exercises that right, the amount of the transaction set forth in item (xxiv) and item (xxv) associated with Securities of the same issue as the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc., and the amount of the transaction set forth in the preceding item associated with the indicator-linked securities are deducted; and if the person has granted another person the right to purchase the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. based on an Option Contract for Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc., the value in question is limited to what remains after the amount of Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. that the person will come to sell if that righty is exercised, the amount of the transaction set forth in item (xxiv) and item (xxv) associated with Securities of the same issue as the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc., and the amount of the transaction set forth in the preceding item associated with the indicator-linked securities are deducted);

(xxxiii)a transaction in which the relevant person sells Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. on a Financial Instruments Exchange Market in order to equalize the prices of the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. with the level of the Indicator associated with the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. (or with the Entrusted Securities referred to in item (xii), (f), as regards the Securities set forth in item (xii), (f); or with the Securities associated with the indicated right referred to in (g) of that item, as regards the Securities set forth in (g) of that item);

(xxxiv)a transaction to be conducted using the relationship between the level of the agreed value of Share Certificates issued by a company that has decided to implement a merger, share exchange, or share transfer (hereinafter collectively referred to as a "Merger, etc." in this item) (hereinafter referred to as "Share Certificates of a Merging, etc. Company" in this item) and the level of the agreed value of shares issued by another company implementing a Merger, etc. with the relevant company (hereinafter referred to as "Share Certificates of a Merged, etc. Company" in this item) based on the ratio of the Merger, etc., in which the person will both make a new purchase of Share Certificates in the Merging, etc. Company and also sell Share Certificates in the Merged, etc. Company within the scope of the purchase value (but only if the date of Merger, etc. and the ratio of Merger, etc. have been decided, and that fact has been made public);

(xxxv)a transaction in which a person conducts Short Selling of Securities of a number that is less than the trading unit specified by the Financial Instruments Exchange that operates the relevant Financial Instruments Exchange Market; and

(xxxvi)a transaction in which a person sells Securities in order to equalize the price of Securities in a Financial Instruments Exchange Market with the price of Securities in a Financial Instruments Exchange Market operated by another Financial Instruments Exchange or in a Proprietary Trading System (meaning a Proprietary Trading System as prescribed in Article 26-2-2, paragraph (7) of the Order; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter) operated by a Financial Instruments Business Operator that has obtained the authorization referred to in Article 30, paragraph (1) of the Act.

(i)a transaction as set forth in items (ii), (iii) and (vii), and item (ix) through item (xiv) of the preceding paragraph;

(ii)a transaction in which an Over-the-Counter Market Maker conducts Short Selling on its own account in the Over-the-Counter Securities Market on which it quotes sale prices, based on the sale quotes;

(iii)a transaction in which a person sells Over-the-Counter Traded Securities purchased thereby (other than Over-the-Counter Traded Securities associated with Short Selling that the person in question has purchased through a person offering to entrust the person in question with Short Selling on an Over-the-Counter Securities Market or to have the person in question broker another person's entrustment with the same, in lieu of undertaking to broker another person's entrustment with Short Selling) whose settlement has yet to be completed, and settles that sale with the Over-the-Counter Traded Securities purchased thereby;

(iv)a purchase and sale on an Over-the-Counter Traded Securities Market constituting a transaction in which the person in question conducts Short Selling of Over-the-Counter Traded Securities outside the trading hours for Over-the-Counter Traded Securities, through a system for transactions on an Over-the-Counter Traded Securities Market, based on the rules specified by the Authorized Financial Instruments Firms Association that operates the Over-the-Counter Traded Securities Market (hereinafter referred to as "System Trading" in this Chapter);

(v)a transaction in which the person in question conducts Short Selling for one of following reasons:

(vi)a Margin Transaction;

(vii)the transactions set forth in items (xx), (xxi) and (xxxiv) of the preceding paragraph;

(viii)a transaction in which the person in question conducts Short Selling for Over-the-Counter Traded Securities of a volume that is less than the published trading unit specified by the Authorized Financial Instruments Firms Association that operates the Over-the-Counter Securities Market;

(ix)a transaction in which the person in question sells certain Over-the-Counter Traded Securities in order to equalize the price of Over-the-Counter Traded Securities in an Over-the-Counter Securities Market with the price of the Over-the-Counter Traded Securities in an Over-the-Counter Securities Market established by another Authorized Financial Instruments Firms Association or a Proprietary Trading System established by a Financial Instruments Business Operator that has obtained the authorization referred to in Article 30, paragraph (1) of the Act.

(i)a transaction as set forth in paragraph (1), items (ii), (iii) and (vii), item (ix) through item (xiv) and item (xvi);

(ii)a transaction in which a Financial Instruments Business Operator, etc. prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (2) conducts Short Selling on its own account in the Proprietary Trading System on which the Financial Instruments Business Operator, etc. quotes sale prices, based on the sale quotes;

(iii)a transaction in which a person sells Securities purchased thereby (other than Securities associated with Short Selling that the person in question has purchased through a person offering to entrust the person in question with in a Proprietary Trading System or to have the person in question broker another person's entrustment with the same, in lieu of undertaking to broker another person's entrustment with Short Selling) whose settlement has yet to be completed, and settles that sale with the Securities purchased thereby;

(iv)a transaction in which the person in question conducts Short Selling for one of the following reasons:

(v)a transaction in which a Financial Instruments Business Operator, etc. that is itself a customer of a Financial Instruments Business Operator that has obtained the authorization referred to in Article 30, paragraph (1) of the Act, having promised its customer that it will purchase Securities held by that customer (but not those that the customer has borrowed and not the Securities prescribed in Article 26-2 of the Order in a case constituting one as prescribed in the same Article) at one of the following price through a purchase and sale conducted outside the Financial Instruments Exchange Market or a trading session specified in the operational rules of a Financial Instruments Exchange, conducts, on its own account, a Short Selling transaction of Securities of the same issue as the Securities in question, within the scope of the volume of the purchase in question (transactions as set forth in paragraph (1), item (iii) are excluded, but only if sell orders will be executed in accordance with the program set in advance and the transaction is managed under a special account):

(vi)the transactions set forth in paragraph (1), item (xx) through item (xxxii) and item (xxxiv);

(vii)a transaction in which the person in question sells Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. on a Proprietary Trading System in order to equalize the prices of the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. with the level of the Indicator for the Beneficiary Securities of an Investment Trust, etc. (or for the Entrusted Securities referred to in item (xii), (f), as regards the Securities set forth in paragraph (1), item (xii), (f); or for the Securities associated with the indicated right referred to in (g) of that item, as regards the Securities set forth in (g) of that item);

(viii)a transaction in which the person in question conducts Short Selling for Securities of a number that is less than the trading unit specified by a Financial Instruments Business Operator that has obtained the authorization referred to in Article 30, paragraph (1) of the Act and establishes the Proprietary Trading System;

(ix)a transaction in which the person in question sells Securities in order to equalize the price of the Securities in a Proprietary Trading System with the price of the Securities in a Proprietary Trading System established by another Financial Instruments Business Operator that has obtained the authorization referred to in Article 30, paragraph (1) of the Act or Financial Instruments Exchange Market or Over-the-Counter Securities Market.

(i)the method set forth in the items of Article 17 of the Cabinet Office Order on Definitions; and

(ii)the method of auction or a method similar to the method set forth in the preceding item.

(i)the transactions set forth in the items of Article 9-3, paragraph (1) (excluding item (xviii));

(ii)a Margin Transaction (but only if the volume of sales is within 50 times as much as the trading unit specified by the Financial Instruments Exchange) conducted by a person that does not fall under the category of Qualified Institutional Investor as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Act (or a foreign corporation similar thereto).

(i)the transactions set forth in the items of Article 9-3, paragraph (2) (excluding item (vi));

(ii)a Margin Transaction (but only if the volume of sales is within 50 times as much as the trading unit specified by an Authorized Financial Instruments Firms Association) conducted by a person that does not fall under the category of a Qualified Institutional Investor as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Act (or a foreign corporation similar thereto).

(i)if, as a result of the Short Selling, the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio (meaning the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio prescribed in paragraph (1), item (vii) of the following Article; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) of the Designated Securities reaches 0.002 or more and the Number of Outstanding Short Selling Positions Expressed in Trading Units exceeds 50:the day on which the Short Selling was conducted;

(ii)if there are any changes in the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio prescribed in the preceding item (only if the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio after the change is 0.002 or more and the Number of Outstanding Short Selling Positions Expressed in Trading Units after the change exceeds 50, unless there is no change in the figure when any numbers beyond three decimal places in the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio before the change and the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio after the change are disregarded or as set forth in the same item):the day on which the change occurred;

(iii)if there are changes in the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio or the Number of Outstanding Short Selling Positions Expressed in Trading Units prescribed in item (i), and the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio after the change has ceased to reach 0.002 or more or the Number of Outstanding Short Selling Positions Expressed in Trading Units after the change has ceased to exceed 50:the day on which the change occurred.

(i)when, as a result of the Short Selling, the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio associated with the Designated Securities reaches 0.002 or more and the Number of Outstanding Short Selling Positions Expressed in Trading Units exceeds 50:the day on which the Short Selling was conducted;

(ii)if there are any changes in the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio prescribed in the preceding item (but only if the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio after the change is 0.002 or more and the Number of Outstanding Short Selling Positions Expressed in Trading Units after the change exceeds 50, unless there is no change in the figure when any numbers beyond three decimal places in the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio before the change and the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio after the change are disregarded or as set forth in the same item):the day on which the change occurred; or

(iii)if there are changes in the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio or the Number of Outstanding Short Selling Positions Expressed in Trading Units prescribed in item (i), and the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio after the change has ceased to reach 0.002 or more or the Number of Outstanding Short Selling Positions Expressed in Trading Units after the change has ceased to exceed 50: the day on which the change occurred.

(i)the Short Selling conducted by a person engaged in Trust Business (meaning Trust Business as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Trust Business Act (Act No. 154 of 2004); the same applies hereinafter) as the investment of trust property (excluding the investment trust property prescribed in Article 3, item (ii) of the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations; hereinafter the same applies in this item and paragraph (1), item (iii), (a) of the following Article):the trust property (or the settlor, for trust property invested based on instructions of a settlor);

(ii)the Short Selling conducted by a person engaged in Investment Management Business (meaning Investment Management Business as prescribed in Article 28, paragraph (4) of the Act; the same applies hereinafter) (but only a person that conducts business involving the acts set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xii) of the Act) as the investment (or gives instructions therefor; the same applies in the following item) of Investment Property (meaning investment property as prescribed in Article 35, paragraph (1), item (xv) of the Act; the same applies in the following item and item (iv) as well as paragraph (1), item (iii) of the following Article) on behalf of the counterparty to a Discretionary Investment Contract:the counterparty to the Discretionary Investment Contract;

(iii)the Short Selling conducted by a person engaged in Investment Management Business (but only a person that conducts business involving the acts set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xiv) of the Act) as the investment of Investment Property made on behalf of the person that holds the right indicated on the Securities prescribed in that item or other rights specified by Cabinet Order:that Investment Property;

(iv)the Short Selling conducted by a person engaged in Investment Management Business (but only a person that conducts business involving the acts set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xv) of the Act) as the investment of Investment Property made on behalf of the person that holds the rights set forth in (a) through (c) of that item or other rights specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in that item: that Investment Property; and

(v)beyond what is set forth in the preceding items, the Short Selling designated by the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency:the things that the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency specifies.

(i)the trade name or name of the person that conducted Short Selling with regard to the Designated Securities (and an indication that the person is an individual (but only an individual whose Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio prescribed in item (vii) is less than 0.05), if this is the case);

(ii)the address or locality of the person that conducted Short Selling with regard to the Designated Securities (excluding individuals whose Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio prescribed in item (vii) is less than 0.05) (this means the name of the person's prefecture and the name of the person's municipality or special ward, if the person is an individual; or equivalent information, if the person is a Non-Resident (meaning a non-resident as prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1), item (vi) of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (Act No. 228 of 1949); the same applies in the following item and Article 29, paragraph (2)));

(iii)the particulars specified in the relevant of the following, if the Short Selling of the Designated Securities is one of the following types of Short Selling:

(iv)the issue name of the Designated Securities for which Short Selling has been conducted;

(v)the date on which the calculation of the outstanding ratio prescribed in item (vii) was conducted;

(vi)the Number of Outstanding Short Selling Positions of the Designated Securities for which the Short Selling was conducted and the Number of Outstanding Short Selling Positions Expressed in Trading Units prescribed in paragraph (7) of the preceding Article;

(vii)the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio (meaning the figure arrived at when the Number of Outstanding Short Selling Positions set forth in the preceding item is divided by the total number of issued shares or the number of units in issue of the Designated Securities) (disregarding any numbers beyond four decimal places; the same applies in paragraph (1) of the following Article) associated with the Designated Securities; and

(viii)when providing Balance and Other Information Related to Short Selling in cases falling under paragraph (1), item (ii) or (iii) or paragraph (6), item (ii) or (iii) of the preceding Article, the information set forth in item (v) for the Balance and Other Information Related to Short Selling provided immediately prior to the provision thereof and the information set forth in the preceding item (referred to as "Latest Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio" in paragraph (1), item (ii) of the following Article).

(i)the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio in the Balance and Other Information Related to Short Selling is 0.005 or more; or

(ii)the Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio in the Balance and Other Information Related to Short Selling is less than 0.005 or the Number of Outstanding Short Selling Positions Expressed in Trading Units prescribed in Article 15-2, paragraph (7) associated with the Balance and Other Information Related to Short Selling is no more than 50 and the Latest Outstanding Short Selling Positions Ratio associated with the Balance and Other Information Related to Short Selling is 0.005 or more.

(i)transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (i) of the Act;

(ii)a transaction in which the person in question conducts Short Selling for the following Securities:

(iii)a transaction in which the person in question conducts Short Selling through a purchase and sale on a Financial Instruments Exchange Market that is conducted outside of the trading session specified in the operational rules of the Financial Instruments Exchange that operates that Financial Instruments Exchange Market.

(i)a transaction in which the person in question conducts Short Selling for the Securities set forth in item (ii), (a) through (j) of the preceding Article; and

(ii)a transaction constituting a purchase and sale on an Over-the-Counter Securities Market, in which the person in question conducts Short Selling for Over-the-Counter Traded Securities outside System Trading hours.

(i)the purchase and sale of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. (meaning Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. as prescribed in Article 162-2 of the Act; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter) conducted by an Issuer of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. under the provisions of Article 156, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act (including as applied following a deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Articles 163 and 165, paragraph (3) of that Act), the provisions of Article 80-2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations applied following a deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 80-5, paragraph (2) of that Act or the laws and regulations of a foreign state equivalent thereto (but only if the Issuer is a foreign person; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter) or the Entrustment, etc. of a person with such a purchase and sale;

(ii)the purchase and sale of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. conducted by a Trust Company, etc. (meaning a Trust Company, etc. as prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act; the same applies in Article 22) on the account of the Issuer of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. based on a trust contract under the provisions of Article 156, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act (including as applied following a deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 163 and Article 165, paragraph (3) of that Act), the provisions of Article 80-2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations applied following a deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 80-5, paragraph (2) of that Act or the laws and regulations of a foreign state equivalent to thereto, or the Entrustment, etc. of a person with such a purchase and sale;

(iii)the purchase and sale of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. conducted by a Financial Instruments Business Operator, etc. based on a Discretionary Investment Contract on behalf of the Issuer of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. under the provisions of Article 156, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act (including as applied following a deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 163 and Article 165, paragraph (3) of that Act), the provisions of Article 80-2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations applied following a deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 80-5, paragraph (2) of that Act or the laws and regulations of a foreign state equivalent thereto; the Entrustment, etc. of a person with such a purchase and sale; or instructions to do the same;

(iv)the purchase and sale of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. conducted by a Financial Instruments Business Operator, etc. on the account of an Issuer of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. based on a contract (excluding those falling under the category of a Discretionary Investment Contract) in which the Financial Instruments Business Operator, etc. obtains consent from the Issuer in deciding whether the Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. will be purchased or sold, the total amount, and either the volume to be traded or the price at which to trade in an individual transaction and may decide the rest thereof, under the provisions of Article 156, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act (including as applied following a deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 163 and Article 165, paragraph (3) of that Act), the provisions of Article 80-2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations applied following a deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Article 80-5, paragraph (2) of that Act or the laws and regulations of a foreign state equivalent thereto, or the Entrustment, etc. of a person with such a purchase and sale; and

(v)Accepting an Entrustment, etc. (meaning Accepting an Entrustment, etc. as prescribed in Article 44-2, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act) of the transactions set forth in the preceding items by a Financial Instruments Business Operator, etc.

(i)that the Issuer will not make a Purchase, etc. of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. from two or more Financial Instrument Business Operators, etc. in the same day;

(ii)that the order price for the Purchase, etc. of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. is any of the following prices:

(iii)that the total volume of orders for Purchases, etc. of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. that it places in one day on the Financial Instruments Exchange Market in which it will purchase Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. will not exceed any of the following volumes:

(i)that the Issuer will not make a Purchase, etc. of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. from two or more Financial Instruments Business Operators, etc. in the same day;

(ii)that an order to Purchase the Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. will not be made at a limit price that exceeds the highest price of that day's Published Prices which have been published by the time on that day when the order is to be made, and that the Issuer will make the order at the limit price not exceeding the price published by a Financial Instruments Exchange as the lowest ask price published by a Market Maker (hereinafter referred to as the "Lowest Ask Price" in this item) and will not place orders at the Lowest Ask Price repeatedly and continuously if the Lowest Ask Price rises immediately after the order;

(iii)that the total volume of orders for Purchases, etc. of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. that it places in one day on the Financial Instruments Exchange Market in which it will purchase Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. will not exceed any of the following volumes:

(i)that it does not Purchase, etc. Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. from two or more Financial Instrument Business Operators, etc. in the same day;

(ii)that it makes the Purchase, etc. of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. based on an order price as follows:

(iii)that the total volume of orders for Purchases, etc. of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. that it places in one day on the Over-the-Counter Securities Market in which it will purchase Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. does not exceed any of the following volumes:

(i)that it does not Purchase, etc. Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. from two or more Financial Instrument Business Operators, etc. in the same day;

(ii)that it does not place any order to Purchase, etc. Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. at a limit price that exceeds the highest price of that day's Published Prices that have been published on that day by the time it places the order, and that it places the order for this at a limit price not exceeding the price published by the Authorized Financial Instruments Firms Association as the lowest ask price published by an Over-the-Counter Market Maker (hereinafter referred to as the "Lowest Ask Price" in this item) and will not repeatedly and continuously place orders at that Lowest Ask Price if the Lowest Ask Price rises immediately after the order;

(iii)that the total volume of orders for Purchases, etc. of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. that it places in one day on the Over-the-Counter Securities Market in which it will purchase Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. will not exceed any of the following volumes:

(i)a method of Purchase, etc. of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. on a Financial Instruments Exchange Market (other than a Purchase, etc. of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. prescribed in the following item), that the Financial Instruments Exchange finds to be appropriate as one that satisfies the following requirements:

(ii)a method of Purchase, etc. of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. associated with a Market Making Issue on the Financial Instruments Exchange Market that the Financial Instruments Exchange finds to be appropriate as one that satisfies the following requirements:

(iii)a method of Purchase, etc. of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. in an Over-the-Counter Securities Market (other than a Purchase, etc. of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. as prescribed in the following item) that the Authorized Financial Instruments Firms Association finds to be appropriate as satisfying the following requirements:

(iv)a method of Purchase, etc. of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. associated with an Over-the-Counter Market Making Issue on an Over-the-Counter Securities Market that the Authorized Financial Instruments Firms Association finds to be appropriate as satisfying the following requirements:

(i)the shares held as a trust property by a person engaged in Trust Business;

(ii)the shares acquired by a person engaged in Securities-Related Business (meaning Securities-Related Business as prescribed in Article 28, paragraph (8) of the Act; the same applies in Article 59, paragraph (1), item (xiv), (b), 1. and Article 62, item (ii)) through the business of Underwriting of Securities (meaning the Underwriting of Securities as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (vi) of the Act) or Secondary Distribution of Securities, or Exclusive Offer to Sell, etc. to Professional Investors; and

(iii)the shares held by a person engaged in the business prescribed in Article 156-24, paragraph (1) of the Act as the person's business.

(i)that there exists monetary claim or other assets to be assigned (or acquired) directly or indirectly from the owner to a corporation established or operated for the purpose of the issuance of Securities (referred to as the "Special Purpose Corporation" in the following item) (the monetary claim or assets are collectively referred to as the "Assigned Assets" in the following item);

(ii)that a Special Purpose Corporation will issue the relevant Securities (or those that are issued for the refinancing of the relevant Securities), and use the money obtained through the management, investment, or disposal of the Assigned Assets for the performance of obligations arising from the Securities.

(i)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (ii) of the Act that concerns Specified Securities, etc.:one in which the person in question would be the party to receive the money (or the party to pay the money, if the Specified Securities, etc. are Seller-Related Securities; hereinafter the same applies in this Article and the following Article) if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure;

(ii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph (or an equivalent transaction that a Financial Instruments Exchange specifies; hereinafter the same applies in this item) which concerns Specified Securities, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or an Option equivalent thereto that a Financial Instruments Exchange specifies) and the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure (or the party to receive money, if the Specified Securities, etc. are Seller-Related Securities; hereinafter the same applies in this Article and following Articles), or an Option equivalent thereto that a Financial Instruments Exchange specifies);

(iii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act that concerns the purchase and sale of Specified Securities, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of buyer in the associated purchase and sale of Specified Securities, etc. (or the position of seller, if the Specified Securities, etc. are Seller-Related Securities; hereinafter the same applies in this Article, the following Article and Article 35)) and the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of seller in the associated purchase and sale of Specified Securities, etc. (or the position of buyer, if the Specified Securities, etc. are Seller-Related Securities; hereinafter the same applies in this Article, the following Article and Article 35));

(iv)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iv) of the Act that concerns Specified Securities, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to receive the money if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or one in which the person in question will be the party to pay the money if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon;

(v)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph involving Specified Securities, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person in question to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon or one whose exercise would cause that person to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the person to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon or one whose exercise would cause that person to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon);

(vi)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (v) of the Act that concerns Specified Securities, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to pay the money if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties have agreed upon in advance occurs;

(vii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph involving Specified Securities, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties agree upon in advance occurs) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person that exercises it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties agree upon in advance occurs);

(viii)a Foreign Market Derivatives Transaction involving Specified Securities, etc.:one that is similar to what one of the preceding items prescribes for the category of transaction set forth in that item;

(ix)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (ii) of the Act that concerns Specified Securities, etc.:one in which the relevant person will be the party to receive the money if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or one that is similar to this;

(x)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph which concerns Specified Securities, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or an Option similar to this) and the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or an Option similar to this);

(xi)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act that concerns the purchase and sale of Specified Securities, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of buyer in the associated purchase and sale of Specified Securities, etc., or an Option similar to this) and the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of seller in the associated purchase and sale of Specified Securities, etc., or an Option similar to this);

(xii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iv) of the Act that concerns Specified Securities, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction if the actual price of the Specified Securities, etc. at the time the person exercises the Option exceeds the figure that the parties agree upon in advance as the price that the Specified Securities, etc. will be if the party exercises that Option, or an Option similar to this) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction if the actual price of the Specified Securities, etc. at the time the person exercises the Option exceeds the figure that the parties agree upon in advance as the price that the Specified Securities, etc. will be if the party exercises that Option, or an Option similar to this);

(xiii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (v) of the Act that concerns Specified Securities, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to receive the money if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, one in which the person in question will be the party to pay the money if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or one that is similar to either of these;

(xiv)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph which concerns Specified Securities, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the person to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, an Option whose exercise would cause that person to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or an Option similar to these) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the person to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, an Option whose exercise would cause that person to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or an Option similar to these);

(xv)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (vi) of the Act that concerns Specified Securities, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to pay the money if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties have agreed upon in advance occurs, or one that is similar to this; and

(xvi)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (vi) of that paragraph involving Specified Securities, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (vi) of that paragraph if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties have agreed upon in advance occurs, or an Option similar to this) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (vi) of that paragraph if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties have agreed upon in advance occurs, or an Option similar to this).

(i)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (ii) of the Act that concerns Specified Securities, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to pay the money if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure;

(ii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph which concerns Specified Securities, etc. (or an equivalent transaction that a Financial Instruments Exchange specifies; hereinafter the same applies in this item):the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or an Option equivalent to this that a Financial Instruments Exchange specifies) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or an Option equivalent to this that a Financial Instruments Exchange specifies);

(iii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act that concerns the purchase and sale of Specified Securities, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of seller in the associated purchase and sale of Specified Securities, etc.) and the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of buyer in the associated purchase and sale of Specified Securities, etc.);

(iv)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iv) of the Act that concerns Specified Securities, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to pay the money if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or the party to receive the money if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon;

(v)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph which concerns Specified Securities, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the person to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon or one whose exercise would cause that person to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the person to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon or one whose exercise would cause that person to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon);

(vi)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (v) of the Act that concerns Specified Securities, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to receive the money if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties have agreed upon in advance occurs;

(vii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph which concerns Specified Securities, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person that exercises it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties agree upon in advance occurs) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties agree upon in advance occurs);

(viii)a Foreign Market Derivatives Transaction involving Specified Securities, etc.:one that is similar to what one of the preceding items prescribes for the category of transaction set forth in that item;

(ix)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (ii) of the Act that concerns Specified Securities, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to pay the money if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or one that is similar to this;

(x)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph which concerns Specified Securities, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or an Option similar to this) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or an Option similar to this);

(xi)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act that concerns the purchase and sale of Specified Securities, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of seller in the associated purchase and sale of Specified Securities, etc., or an Option similar to this) and the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of buyer in the associated purchase and sale of Specified Securities, etc., or an Option similar to this);

(xii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iv) of the Act that concerns Specified Securities, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction if the actual price of the Specified Securities, etc. at the time the person exercises the Option exceeds the figure that the parties agree upon in advance as the price that the Specified Securities, etc. will be if the party exercises that Option, or an Option similar to this) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction if the actual price of the Specified Securities, etc. at the time the person exercises the Option exceeds the figure that the parties agree upon in advance as the price that the Specified Securities, etc. will be if the party exercises that Option, or an Option similar to this);

(xiii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (v) of the Act that concerns Specified Securities, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to pay the money if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, one in which the person in question will be the party to receive the money if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or one that is similar to either of these;

(xiv)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph which concerns Specified Securities, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the person to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, an Option whose exercise would cause that person to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or an Option similar to these) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the person to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon or one whose exercise would cause that person to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph if the price of the Specified Securities, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or an Option similar thereto);

(xv)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (vi) of the Act that concerns Specified Securities, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to receive the money if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties have agreed upon in advance occurs, or one that is similar to this; and

(xvi)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (vi) of that paragraph which concerns Specified Securities, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (vi) of that paragraph if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties have agreed upon in advance occurs, or an Option similar to this) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (vi) of that paragraph if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties have agreed upon in advance occurs, or an Option similar to this).

(i)one in which the person in question has purchased or sold share certificates associated only with a number of shares not fully constituting one unit of shares as prescribed in Article 188, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act;

(ii)one in which an officer or employee of a Listed Company, etc. (or an officer or employee of another company that a Listed Company controls directly or indirectly; hereinafter the same applies in this item and the following item), jointly with another officer or employee of the Listed Company, etc., has purchased share certificates or Investment Securities of the Listed Company, etc. (but only if that officer or employee has purchased these by Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator, etc. with doing so, in the event that the purchase is of share certificates other than those that the Listed Company, etc. has purchased pursuant to the provisions of Article 156, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act (including as applied following a deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Articles 165, paragraph (3) of that Act)), and in which those purchases are found to have been made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if each officer or employee is to contribute less than one million yen per occasion; the same applies in the following item);

(iii)one in which an officer or employee of a Listed Company, etc. has concluded a trust contract with a person engaged in Trust Business for the purpose of investing trust property in share certificates or Investment Securities of the Listed Company, etc. and the person engaged in Trust Business has purchased share certificates or Investment Securities of the Listed Company, etc. based on the instructions from the officer or employee, and in which those purchases are found to have been made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if the trust property for which the settlor is the officer or employee and the trust property for which the settlor is another officer or employee of the Listed Company are jointly invested);

(iv)one in which an employee of an Associated Company of a Listed Company, etc. (but not a Listed Investment Corporation, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this item through item (vi)) jointly with another employee of the Associated Company has purchased share certificates of the Listed Company, etc. by Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator with doing this (other than as set forth in item (ii)), and in which those purchases are found to have been made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if each employee is to contribute less than one million yen per occasion; the same applies in the following item);

(v)one in which an employee of an Associated Company of a Listed Company, etc. has concluded a trust contract with a person engaged in Trust Business for the purpose of investing trust property in share certificates of the Listed Company, etc., and the person engaged in Trust Business has purchased share certificates of the Listed Company, etc. based on instructions from the employee (but not as set forth in item (iii)), and in which those purchases are found to have been made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if the trust property for which the settlor is the employee and the trust property for which the settlor is another employee of the Associated Company are jointly invested);

(vi)one in which a Person Who Has a Transaction Relationship with a Listed Company, etc. (meaning a person that has a transaction relationship with the Listed Company, etc. as designated by the Listed Company, etc. (or that person's officers, if the person is a corporation or any other type of organization; if the person is an individual, this applies only if that individual has a transaction relationship with the Listed Company, etc. in connection with that individual's business); hereinafter the same applies in this item), jointly with another Person Who Has a Transaction Relationship with the Listed Company, etc., has purchased share certificates of the Listed Company, etc. by Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator with doing this, and in which those purchases are found to have been made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if each Person Who Has a Transaction Relationship is to contribute less than one million yen per occasion);

(vi)-2one in which an officer or employee of an Asset Management Company of a Listed Company, etc. (but only a Listed Investment Corporation, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this item) or a Corporation in Specified Relationship (meaning a Corporation in Specified Relationship as prescribed in Article 166, paragraph (5) of the Act; the same applies hereinafter) therewith, jointly with another officer or employee of the Asset Management Company or the Corporation in Specified Relationship, has purchased Investment Securities of the Listed Company, etc. by Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator with doing this, and in which those purchases are found to have been made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if each officer or employee is to contribute less than one million yen per occasion);

(vii)one in which share certificates (or Preferred Equity Investment Certificates; the same applies in item (xv)) or Investment Securities of a Listed Company, etc. have been purchased by a person's Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator with doing so pursuant to a Contract for Cumulative Investment, and in which those purchases are found to have been made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if the amount to be paid in for one issue by each customer is to be less than one million yen per month);

(viii)one in which the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (i) of the Act concerning an aggregate of two or more share certificates or Investment Securities of different issues conducted in a Financial Instruments Exchange are conducted;

(ix)one in which the relevant person conducts a purchase and sale of Specified Securities as specified by Cabinet Order as is provided in Article 159, paragraph (3) of the Act;

(x)one in which an officer or Major Shareholder of a Listed Company, etc. makes a purchase and sale on condition of repurchase for which the repurchase price is set in advance associated with the Specified Securities, etc. issued by the Listed Company, etc., which falls under the category of any of the following Securities (limited to those conducted by the officer or Major Shareholder solely for the officer's or Major Shareholder's own fund procurement):

(xi)one in which the share options for subscription prescribed in Article 238, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act are acquired;

(xii)one in which a person that holds share options or Investment Equity Subscription Rights (meaning Investment Equity Subscription Rights as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (17) of the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations; the same applies hereinafter) has purchased share certificates or Investment Securities by exercising the share options or Investment Equity Subscription Rights;

(xiii)one in which an officer of a Listed Company, etc. will provide services to the Listed Company, etc., and has purchased share certificates of the Listed Company, etc. that the officer will acquire in exchange for payment of the claim acquired thereby, as consideration for the officer's provision of services;

(xiv)one in which the relevant person conducts a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iv) or Article 2, paragraph (22), item (v) of the Act that concerns Specified Securities, etc.;

(xv)one in which the Banks' Shareholdings Purchase Corporation has purchased share certificates or Investment Securities of a Listed Company, etc. (but only one that falls under the category of a special share purchase prescribed in Article 38, paragraph (2) of the Act on Limits for Share, etc. Holdings by Banks and Other Financial Institutions (Act No. 131 of 2001) (or the purchase of share certificates under the provisions of Article 38-2, paragraph (1) of that Act) and those which fall under the category of purchase of Investment Equity under the provisions of Article 38-6, paragraph (1) of that Act) or a sale of the share certificates or Investment Securities which it has purchased (or if the person that the Banks' Shareholdings Purchase Corporation entrusts with part of its business pursuant to the provisions of Article 35 of that Act makes a purchase or sale of share certificates or Investment Securities of a Listed Company, etc. under the entrustment).

(i)a second company in which the Listed Company, etc. holds voting rights constituting over 50 percent of the Voting Rights Held by All the Shareholders, etc. (meaning the Voting Rights Held by All the Shareholders, etc. as prescribed in Article 29-4, paragraph (2) of the Act; the same applies hereinafter);

(ii)a third company in which a second company as set forth in the preceding item holds voting rights constituting over 50 percent of the Voting Rights Held by All the Shareholders, etc.; or

(iii)a forth company in which a third company as set forth in the preceding item holds voting rights constituting over 50 percent of the Voting Rights Held by All the Shareholders, etc.

(i)a second company in which a Listed Company, etc. holds voting rights constituting not less than 25 percent of the Voting Rights Held by All the Shareholders, etc.;

(ii)a second company whose net sales to a Listed Company, etc. in the previous business year were not less than 50 percent of the second company's total amount of net sales; and

(iii)a second company whose purchases from a Listed Company, etc. in the previous business year were not less than 50 percent of the total amount of the second company's purchases.

(i)the Value of Sales, etc. (limited to the amount associated with the Matched Trading Volume) of Specified Securities, etc.; and

(ii)the Value of Purchases, etc. (limited to the amount associated with the Matched Trading Volume) of Specified Securities, etc.

(i)the sale of Related Securities (excluding Seller-Related Securities; hereinafter the same applies in this Article and the following Article), or the purchase of Seller-Related Securities:the amount of Specified Securities associated with Options or rights indicated on the Related Securities subject to the sale or on the Seller-Related Securities subject to the purchase;

(ii)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) or paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act associated with the purchase and sale of Specified Securities:the amount of Specified Securities subject to the purchase and sale which are effected when the Options acquired or granted are exercised;

(iii)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) or paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act associated with the purchase and sale of Related Securities or Seller-Related Securities:the amount of Specified Securities associated with Options or rights indicated on Related Securities or on Seller-Related Securities subject to the purchase and sale which are effected when the Options acquired or granted are exercised.

(i)the sale of Specified Securities: the amount arrived at when the amounts set forth in the following (h) through (m) are deducted from the amount arrived at when the amounts set forth in the following (a) through (g) are added to the amount of Specified Securities of a Listed Company, etc. owned by an officer or Major Shareholder which are of the same type as the Specified Securities subject to sale by the officer or Major Shareholder:

(ii)the sale of Related Securities or the purchase of Seller-Related Securities:the amount arrived at when the amounts set forth in (h) through (m) of the preceding item are deducted from the amounts arrived at when the amounts set forth in (a) through (g) are added to the amount of Specified Securities of the Listed Company, etc. owned by an officer or Major Shareholder which are of the same type as the Specified Securities related to the Options or rights indicated on the Related Securities subject to sale or Seller-Related Securities subject to purchase by the officer or Major Shareholder;

(iii)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) or paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act associated with the purchase and sale of Specified Securities:the amount arrived at when the amounts set forth in (h) through (m) of item (i) are deducted from the amount arrived at when the amounts set forth in (a) through (g) of that item are added to the amount of Specified Securities of the Listed Company, etc. owned by the relevant officer or Major Shareholder which are of the same type as the Specified Securities subject to the purchase and sale effected when the Options which the officer or Major Shareholder acquired or granted are exercised; and

(iv)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) or paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act associated with the purchase and sale of Related Securities or Seller-Related Securities:the amount arrived at when the amounts set forth in (h) through (m) of item (i) are deducted from the amount arrived at when the amounts set forth in (a) through (g) of that item are added to the amount of Specified Securities of the Listed Company, etc. owned by the relevant officer or Major Shareholder which are of the same type as the Specified Securities associated with Options or rights indicated on the Related Securities or Seller-Related Securities subject to the purchase and sale effected when the Options which the officer or Major Shareholder acquired or granted are exercised.

(i)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (ii) or paragraph (22), item (ii) of the Act concerning Specified Securities:the volume arrived at when the transaction contract value for that transaction is divided by the Agreed Figure for one Specified Security (the figure arrived at when the Agreed Figure is divided by the notional number of Specified Securities subject to the transaction);

(ii)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act related to the transactions set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph (or an equivalent transaction that a Financial Instruments Exchange specifies; hereinafter the same applies in this item) or the transactions set forth in paragraph (22), item (iii) of that Article related the transaction set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph concerning Specified Securities:the volume arrived at when the transaction contract value for the transactions set forth in paragraph (21), item (ii) or paragraph (22), item (ii) of that Article which are effected when the Options acquired or granted are exercised is divided by the Agreed Figure for Exercise of Rights (meaning the Agreed Figure associated with a transaction which is established by a unilateral manifestation of intention by one of the parties to the transaction) for one Specified Security;

(iii)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iv) or paragraph (22), item (v) of the Act concerning Specified Securities:the volume arrived at when the notional principal amount for the transaction is divided by the market value of one Specified Security;

(iv)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act related to the transactions set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph or the transactions set forth in paragraph (22), item (iii) of that Article related to the transactions set forth in item (v) of that paragraph concerning Specified Securities:the volume arrived at when the notional principal amount for the transactions set forth in paragraph (21), item (iv) or paragraph (22), item (v) of that Article which are effected when the Options acquired or granted are exercised is divided by the market value of one Specified Security;

(v)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (v) or paragraph (22), item (vi) of the Act concerning Specified Securities:the volume arrived at when the notional principal amount is divided by the market value of one Specified Security;

(vi)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act related to the transactions set forth in item (v) of that paragraph or the transactions set forth in paragraph (22), item (iii) of that Article related to the transactions set forth in item (vi) of that paragraph concerning Specified Securities:the volume arrived at when the notional principal amount for the transactions set forth in paragraph (21), item (v) or paragraph (22), item (vi) of that Article which are effected when the Options acquired or granted are exercised by the market value of one Specified Security;

(vii)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iv) of the Act concerning Specified Securities:the volume arrived at when the notional principal amount for the transaction which is effected when the Options acquired or granted are exercised is divided by the Agreed Figure for Exercise of Rights (meaning the Agreed Figure associated with a transaction which is established by a unilateral manifestation of intention by one of the parties to the transaction) for one Specified Security;

(viii)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (ii) or paragraph (22), item (ii) of the Act concerning Related Securities:the volume arrived at when the number arrived at when the transaction contract value for the transaction is divided by the Agreed Figure for one Related Security (the figure arrived at when the Agreed Figure is divided by the notional number of Related Securities involved in the transaction) is multiplied by the volume of Specified Securities associated with Options or rights indicated on the one Related Security;

(ix)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act related to the transactions set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph (or an equivalent transaction that a Financial Instruments Exchange specifies; hereinafter the same applies in this item) or the transactions set forth in paragraph (22), item (iii) of that Article related to the transactions set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph concerning Specified Securities:the volume arrived at when the number arrived at when the transaction contract value for the transactions set forth in paragraph (21), item (ii) or paragraph (22), item (ii) of that Article which are effected when the Options acquired or granted are exercised is divided by the Agreed Figure for Exercise of Rights (meaning the Agreed Figure in a transaction which is established by a unilateral manifestation of intention by one of the parties to the transaction) for one Related Security is multiplied by the volume of the Specified Securities related to the Options or rights indicated on the one Related Security;

(x)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iv) or paragraph (22), item (v) of the Act concerning Related Securities:the volume arrived at when the number arrived at when the notional principal amount for the transaction is divided by the market value of one Related Security is multiplied by the volume of Specified Securities related to the Options or rights indicated on the one Related Security;

(xi)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act related to the transactions set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph or the transactions set forth in paragraph (22), item (iii) of that Article related to the transactions set forth in item (v) of that paragraph concerning Related Securities:the volume arrived at when the number arrived at when the notional principal amount for the transactions set forth in paragraph (21), item (iv) or paragraph (22), item (v) of that Article which are effected when the Options acquired or granted are exercised is divided by the Agreed Figure for Exercise of Rights for one Related Security, and the product is multiplied by the volume of the Specified Securities associated with the Options or rights indicated on that one Related Security;

(xii)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (v) or paragraph (22), item (vi) of the Act concerning Related Securities:the volume arrived at when the number arrived at when the notional principal amount for the transaction is divided by the market value of one Related Security is multiplied by the volume of Specified Securities related to the Options or rights indicated on that one Related Security;

(xiii)the transaction set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act related to the transactions set forth in item (v) of that paragraph, or the transactions set forth in paragraph (22), item (iii) of that Article related to the transactions set forth in item (vi) of that paragraph concerning Related Securities:the volume arrived at when the number arrived at when the notional principal amount for the transactions set forth in paragraph (21), item (v) or paragraph (22), item (vi) of that Article which are effected when the Options acquired or granted are exercised is divided by the market value of one Related Security is multiplied by the volume of the Specified Securities related to the Options or rights indicated on that one Related Security; and

(xiv)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iv) of the Act concerning Related Securities:the volume arrived at when the number arrived at when the notional principal amount for the transaction effected when the Options acquired or granted are exercised is divided by the Agreed Figure for Exercise of Rights (meaning the Agreed Figure associated with a transaction established by a unilateral manifestation of intention by one of the parties to the transaction) for one Related Security is multiplied by the volume of the Specified Securities related to the Options or rights indicated on that one Related Security.

(i)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (ii) through item (v) of the Act, the transactions set forth in paragraph (22), item (ii) through item (vi) of that Article, or Foreign Market Derivatives Transactions (limited to the those similar to the transactions set forth in paragraph (21), item (ii) through item (v) of that Article) concerning Specified Securities: the volume arrived at when the volumes set forth in (c) and (d) are deducted from the volume arrived at when the volumes set forth in the following (a) and (b) are added to the volume arrived at when the amount of Specified Securities of the Listed Company, etc. owned by an officer or Major Shareholder which are of the same type as the Specified Securities subject to a transaction by the officer or Major Shareholder are divided by the market value of one Specified Security as of the day on which the transaction was made:

(ii)the transactions set forth Article 2, paragraph (21), item (ii) through item (v) of the Act, the transactions set forth in paragraph (22), item (ii) through item (vi) of that Article, or Foreign Market Derivatives Transactions (limited to those similar to the transactions set forth in paragraph (21), item (ii) to item (v) of that Article), concerning Related Securities:the volume arrived at when the volumes set forth in (c) and (d) of the preceding item are deducted from the volume arrived at when the volumes set forth in (a) and (b) of that item are added to the volume arrived at when the amount of the Specified Securities of the Listed Company, etc. owned by the relevant officer or Major Shareholder which are of the same type as the Specified Securities associated with the Options or rights indicated on the Related Securities subject to transaction by the officer or Major Shareholder is divided by the market value for one Specified Security as of the day on which the transaction was made.

(i)a partner that gives instructions for Purchases, etc. or Sales, etc. concerning Specified Securities of the Listed Company, etc. to the trustee of a trust; and

(ii)a partner that executes the operations of Specified Partnerships, etc. where Purchases, etc. or Sales, etc. concerning Specified Securities, etc. of a Listed Company, etc. are exercised pursuant to a Discretionary Investment Contract.

(i)if the relevant person has conducted a purchase or sale of share certificates associated with shares of a number less than the one unit of shares prescribed in Article 188, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act;

(ii)if a partner of a Specified Partnership, etc. (but only if all of that Specified Partnership's, etc. partners are officers or employees of a Listed Company, etc. (or the officers or employees of a second company that a Listed Company, etc. controls directly or indirectly; hereinafter the same applies in this item) and that Specified Partnership, etc. is based on a contract under which they agree to jointly purchase share certificates of the Listed Company, etc.; the same applies in the following item) has purchased share certificates of the Listed Company, etc. (but only if that partner has purchased these by Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator, etc. with doing so, in the event that the purchase is of share certificates other than those that the Listed Company, etc. has purchased pursuant to the provisions of Article 156, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act (including as applied following a deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Articles 165, paragraph (3) of that Act)) and those purchases are found to have been made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if each officer or employee is to contribute less than one million yen per occasion; the same applies in the following item);

(iii)if a partner of a Specified Partnership, etc. has concluded a trust contract with a person engaged in Trust Business for the purpose of investing trust property in share certificates of the relevant Listed Company, etc. and the person engaged in Trust Business has purchased share certificates of the Listed Company, etc. according to the instructions from the partner of a Specified Partnership, etc., and those purchases are found to have been made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if the trust property for which the settlor is the partner of the Specified Partnership, etc. and the trust property for which the settlor is another partner of the Specified Partnership, etc. are jointly invested);

(iv)if a partner of a Specified Partnership, etc. (but only if all of the Specified Partnership's, etc. partners are employees of an Associated Company of a Listed Company, etc. and the Specified Partnership, etc. is based on a contract under which they agree to jointly purchase share certificates of the Listed Company, etc.; the same applies in the following item) has purchased share certificates of the Listed Company, etc. by Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator, etc. with doing so and those purchases are found to have been made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if each employee is to contribute less than one million yen per occasion; the same applies in the following item);

(v)if a partner of a Specified Partnership, etc. has concluded a trust contract with a person engaged in Trust Business for the purpose of investing trust property in share certificates of a Listed Company, etc. and the person engaged in Trust Business has purchased share certificates of the Listed Company, etc. according to the instructions from the partner of the Specified Partnership, etc., and those purchases are found to have been made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if the trust property for which the settlor is the partner of the Specified Partnership, etc. and the trust property for which the settlor is another partner of the Specified Partnership, etc. are jointly invested);

(vi)if a partner of a Specified Partnership, etc. (but only if all partners of the Specified Partnership, etc. are Persons Who Have a Transaction Relationship with a Listed Company, etc. (meaning a person that has a transaction relationship with a Listed Company, etc. as designated by the Listed Company, etc. (or that person's officers, if the person is a corporation or any other type of organization; if the person is an individual, this applies only if that individual has a transaction relationship with the Listed Company, etc. in connection with that individual's business); hereinafter the same applies in this item) and that Specified Partnership, etc. is based on a contract under which they agree to jointly purchase share certificates of the Listed Company, etc.) has purchased share certificates of the Listed Company, etc. by Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator, etc. with doing so, and those purchases are found to have been made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if each Person Who Has a Transaction Relationship is to contribute less than one million yen per occasion);

(vii)if share certificates (or Preferred Equity Investment Certificates) of a Listed Company, etc. have been purchased by a person's Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator with doing so pursuant to a Contract for Cumulative Investment, and those purchases are found to have been made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if the amount to be paid in for one issue by each customer is to be less than one million yen per month);

(viii)if the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (i) of the Act concerning an aggregate of two or more share certificates of different issues to be conducted on a Financial Instruments Exchange is conducted;

(ix)if the purchase and sale of Specified Securities as specified by Cabinet Order as prescribed in Article 159, paragraph (3) of the Act is conducted;

(x)if a partner of a Specified Partnership, etc. makes a purchase and sale on condition of repurchase for which the repurchase price is set in advance associated with the Specified Securities, etc. issued by a Listed Company, etc. which fall under any of the following Securities (limited to those conducted by the partner of the Specified Partnership, etc. solely for fund procurement of the Specified Partnership, etc.):

(xi)if the share options for subscription prescribed in Article 238, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act are acquired;

(xii)if a person that holds share options has purchased share certificates by exercising the share options;

(xiii)if the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iv) or paragraph (22), item (v) of the Act concerning Specified Securities, etc. are conducted.

(i)the Value of Sales, etc. of Specified Securities, etc. (limited to those associated with the Matched Trading Volume);

(ii)the Value of Purchase, etc. of Specified Securities, etc. (limited to those associated with the Matched Trading Volume).

(i)the sale of Specified Securities: the amount arrived at when the amounts set forth in (h) through (m) are deducted from the amount arrived at when the amounts set forth in the following (a) through (g) are added to the amount of Specified Securities of the Listed Company, etc. owned by the relevant partner of a Specified Partnership, etc. which are of the same type as the Specified Securities subject to sale by the partner of a Specified Partnership, etc.:

(ii)the sale of Related Securities or the purchase of Seller-Related Securities:the amount arrived at when the amounts set forth in (h) through (m) of the preceding item are deducted from the amount arrived at when the amounts set forth in (a) through (g) of that item are added to the amount of Specified Securities of the Listed Company, etc. owned by the relevant partner of the Specified Partnership, etc. which are of the same type as the Specified Securities associated with the Options or rights indicated on the Related Securities subject to sale or on the Seller-Related Securities subject to purchase by the partner of the Specified Partnership, etc.;

(iii)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) or paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act subject to the purchase and sale of Specified Securities:the amount arrived at when the amounts set forth in (h) through (m) of item (i) are deducted from the amount arrived at when the amounts set forth in (a) through (g) of that item are added to the amount of Specified Securities of the Listed Company, etc. owned by the relevant partner of the Specified Partnership, etc. which are of the same type as the Specified Securities subject to the purchase and sale effected when the Options acquired or granted are exercised;

(iv)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) or paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act related to the purchase and sale of Related Securities or Seller-Related Securities:the amount arrived at when the amounts set forth in (h) through (m) of item (i) from the amount arrived at when the amounts set forth in (a) through (g) of that item are added to the amount of Specified Securities of the Listed Company, etc. owned by the relevant partner of the Specified Partnership, etc. which are of the same type as the Specified Securities associated with the Options or rights indicated on the Related Securities or on the Seller-Related Securities subject to the purchase and sale effected when the Options acquired or granted are exercised.

(i)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (ii) through item (v) of the Act, the transactions set forth in paragraph (22), item (ii) through item (vi) of that Article, or Foreign Market Derivatives Transactions (limited those similar to the transactions set forth in paragraph (21), item (ii) through item (v) of that Article) concerning Specified Securities: the volume arrived at when the volumes set forth in (c) and (d) are deducted from the volume arrived at when the volumes set forth in the following (a) and (b) are added to the volume arrived at when the amount of Specified Securities of the Listed Company, etc. owned by the relevant partner of the Specified Partnership, etc. which are of the same type as the Specified Securities subject to transaction by the relevant partner of the Specified Partnership, etc. is divided by the market value of one Specified Security as of the day on which the transaction was made:

(ii)the transactions set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (ii) through item (v) of the Act, the transactions set forth in paragraph (22), item (ii) through item (vi) of that Article, or Foreign Market Derivatives Transactions (limited those similar to the transactions set forth in paragraph (21), item (ii) through item (v) of that Article) concerning Related Securities:the volume arrived at when the volume set forth in (c) and (d) of the preceding item is deducted from the volume arrived at when the volume set forth in (a) and (b) of that item is added to the volume arrived at when the amount of the Specified Securities of the Listed Company, etc. owned by the relevant partner of the Specified Partnership, etc. which are of the same type as the Specified Securities related to the Options or rights indicated on the Related Securities subject to transaction by the partner of the Specified Partnership, etc. is divided by the market value of one Specified Security as of the day on which the transaction was made.

(i)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (i), (a) of the Act: that the solicitation falls under any of the following:

(ii)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (i), (e) of the Act: that the allotment falls under any of the following:

(iii)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (i), (f) of the Act:that the ratio of the number of shares increased per share (or per unit, for Preferred Equity Investment) through a split of shares (or of Preferred Equity Investment; hereinafter the same applies in this item) is less than 0.1;

(iv)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (i), (g) of the Act:that the figure arrived at when the amount of dividend of surplus per share or per unit is divided by the amount of dividend of surplus per share or per unit associated with the period that corresponds to each of their preceding business years is more than 0.8 and less than 1.2;

(v)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (i), (h) of the Act: that in cases of a company which is to become a Wholly Owning Parent Company in Share Exchange (meaning a Wholly Owning Parent Company in Share Exchange as prescribed in Article 767 of the Companies Act; the same applies in Article 55-5, paragraph (1), item (ii)), the share exchange falls under either of the following:

(vi)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (i), (j) of the Act: that the merger falls under either of the following:

(vii)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (i), (k) of the Act: that the company split falls under either of the following:

(viii)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (i), (l) of the Act: that the transfer or acquisition of transfer of business in whole or in part falls under any of the following:

(ix)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (i), (n) of the Act:that in each business year commencing within three years after the first day of the business year that includes the scheduled commencement date of sales of new products or of business which uses new technology, the amount of increase in net sales of the company (or the Cooperative Structured Financial Institution; this means the Corporate Group to which the company belongs, if that company is a specified Listed Company, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this item) as a result of commercialization of the new products or new technology is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the net sales in the latest business year of the company, and the total amount of expenditures specially for the commencement of the sales of new products or business using new technology is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the book value of the Fixed Assets as of the last day of the latest business year of the company;

(x)the particulars set forth in Article 28, item (i) of the Order: that the business alliance or cancellation of a business alliance falls under either of the following:

(xi)the particulars set forth in Article 28, item (ii) of the Order: that the transfer or acquisition of shares or equity involving any changes in a Subsidiary Company is the transfer or acquisition of shares or equity involving changes in the following Subsidiary Companies (excluding the specific subsidiary company prescribed in Article 29, item (viii) of the Order (hereinafter referred to as a "Linked Subsidiary Company")):

(xii)the particulars set forth in Article 28, item (iii) of the Order: that the transfer or acquisition of Fixed Assets falls under either of the following:

(xiii)the particulars set forth in Article 28, item (iv) of the Order:that in each business year commencing within three years after the first day of the business year that includes the scheduled date of suspension or closure of business in whole or in part, the amount of decrease in net sales of the company (or the Cooperative Structured Financial Institution; this means the Corporate Group to which the company belongs, if that company is a specified Listed Company, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this item) as a result of the suspension or closure is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the net sales in the latest business year of the company;

(xiv)the particulars set forth in Article 28, item (ix) of the Order:that in each business year commencing within three years from the day of commencement of the business year that includes the scheduled date of the commencement of a new business (or the commercialization of sales of new products or of the provision of new services; hereinafter the same applies in this item and Article 52, paragraph (1), item (xi) and paragraph (2), item (xi)), the amount of increase in net sales of the company (or the Cooperative Structured Financial Institution; this means the Corporate Group to which the company belongs, if that company is a specified Listed Company, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this item) as a result of the commencement of a new business is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the net sales in the latest business year of the company, and the total amount of special expenditures for the commencement of a new business is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the book value of the Fixed Assets as of the last day of the latest business year of the company.

(i)the fact set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (ii), (a) of the Act:that the amount of damage arising from a disaster or in the course of performing operations is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to three percent of the Amount of Net Assets of the company (or the Cooperative Structured Financial Institution; this means the Corporate Group to which the company belongs, if that company is a specified Listed Company, etc.) as of the last day of the latest business year;

(ii)the fact set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (ii), (c) of the Act:that a fact that may be a grounds for delisting or recession of registration of Securities or Preferred Shares (meaning the type of shares which have a precedence on a dividend of surplus; hereinafter the same applies in this item and item (x)) as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (v) of the Act (excluding a fact which may be a grounds for delisting of share certificates other than Preferred Shares and Preferred Equity Investment Certificates) has occurred;

(iii)the fact set forth in Article 28-2, item (i) of the Order: that the fact falls under either of the following:

(iv)the fact set forth in Article 28-2, item (ii) of the Order: that the fact falls under either of the following:

(v)the fact set forth in Article 28-2, item (iii) of the Order:that in each business year commencing within three years after the first day of the business year that includes the day of disposition under laws and regulations, the amount of reduction in net sales of the company (or the Cooperative Structured Financial Institution; this means the Corporate Group to which the company belongs, if that company is a specified Listed Company, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this item) as a result of a disposition under laws and orders is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the amount of the net sales in the latest business year of the company;

(vi)the fact set forth in Article 28-2, item (viii) of the Order:that the amount for which there is a risk of default with regard to accounts receivable, loaned money, any other claims, or the rights to obtain reimbursement is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to three percent of the Amount of Net Assets of the company (or the Cooperative Structured Financial Institution; this means the Corporate Group to which the company belongs, if that company is a specified Listed Company, etc.) as of the last day of the latest business year;

(vii)the fact set forth in Article 28-2, item (ix) of the Order:that in each business year commencing within three years after the first day of the business year that includes the date of suspension of a transaction with a Major Trading Partner (meaning a Major Trading Partner as prescribed in that item; the same applies in Article 53, paragraph (1), item (vi) and paragraph (2), item (vi)), the amount of reduction in net sales of the company (or the Cooperative Structured Financial Institution; this means the Corporate Group to which the company belongs, if that company is a specified Listed Company, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this item) as a result of the suspension of the transaction is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the net sales in the latest business year of the company;

(viii)the fact set forth in Article 28-2, item (x) of the Order:that the amount of exemption from obligation or the amount of assumption or performance of obligations is to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the total amount of obligations of the company (or the Cooperative Structured Financial Institution; this means the Corporate Group to which the company belongs, if that company is a specified Listed Company, etc.) as of the last day of the latest business year;

(ix)the fact set forth in Article 28-2, item (xi) of the Order:that in each business year commencing within three years after the first day of the business year in which mining or collection of a discovered resource is commenced, the amount of increase in net sales of the company (or the Cooperative Structured Financial Institution; this means the Corporate Group to which the company belongs, if that company is a specified Listed Company, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this item) as a result of business using the resource is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the net sales in the latest business year of the company; and

(x)the fact set forth in Article 28-2, item (xii) of the Order:that a fact which is a cause for rescission of the Designation as Tradable Securities (meaning the designation of Securities as Tradable Securities by an Authorized Financial Instruments Firms Association pursuant to its rules; hereinafter the same applies in this item) associated with Preferred Stocks (excluding facts which are a cause for rescission of the Designation as Tradable Securities of share certificates other than Preferred Stock) has occurred.

(i)net sales:that the figure arrived at when the newly prepared forecast or the numbers in the settlement of accounts for the business year are multiplied by the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding business year) is either 1.1 or greater or 0.9 or lower;

(ii)current profits:that the figure arrived at when the newly prepared forecasts or the numbers in the settlement of accounts for the relevant business year are divided by the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding business year) is either 1.3 or greater or 0.7 or less (all cases in which the latest published forecasts or the results of the preceding business year which have been published for lack of relevant forecasts are zero fall under this criteria); and either that when whichever is greater, the newly prepared forecasts or the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding business year) are deducted from the lesser of these and the resulting difference is then divided by whichever is greater of the Amount of Net Assets or the amount of stated capital as of the last day of the preceding business year, the resulting figure is at least 5 percent or that when whichever is greater, the numbers in the settlement of accounts for the relevant business year or the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding business year) are deducted from the lesser of these and the resulting difference is then divided by whichever is greater of the Amount of Net Assets or the amount of stated capital as of the last day of the preceding business year, the resulting figure is at least 5 percent;

(iii)net profit:that the figure arrived at when the newly prepared forecasts or the numbers in the settlement of accounts for the relevant business year are divided by the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding business year) is either 1.3 or greater or 0.7 or less (all cases in which the latest published forecasts or the results of the preceding business year which have been published for lack of relevant forecasts are zero fall under this criteria); and either that when whichever is greater, the newly prepared forecasts or the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding business year) is deducted from the lesser of these and the resulting difference is then divided by whichever is greater of the Amount of Net Assets or the amount of stated capital as of the last day of the preceding business year, the resulting figure is at least 2.5 percent; or that when whichever is greater, the numbers in the settlement of accounts for the relevant business year or the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding business year) is deducted from the lesser of these and the resulting difference is then divided by whichever is greater of the Amount of Net Assets or the amount of stated capital as of the last day of the preceding business year, the resulting figure is at least 2.5 percent;

(iv)dividend of surplus:that the figure arrived at when the newly prepared forecast or the numbers in the settlement of account for the business year (or a figure fixed not through the settlement of accounts) are divided by the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published results of the dividend of surplus for the period corresponding to the preceding business year) is either 1.2 or greater or 0.8 or less (all cases in which the latest published forecasts or the results of the preceding business year which have been published for lack of relevant forecasts are zero fall under this criteria).

(i)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (v), (a) of the Act: that the share exchange falls under either of the following:

(ii)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (v), (b) of the Act: that the share transfer falls under either of the following:

(iii)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (v), (c) of the Act: that the merger falls under either of the following:

(iv)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (v), (d) of the Act: that the company split falls under either of the following:

(v)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (v), (e) of the Act: that the transfer or acceptance of transfer of business in whole or in part falls under either of the following:

(v)-2the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (v), (f) of the Act:that the amount of decrease in the assets of the Corporate Group to which the relevant Listed Company, etc. belongs as a result of a dissolution (excluding dissolution as a result of merger; hereinafter the same applies in this item and item (v)-2 of the following paragraph) is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 30 percent of the Amount of Net Assets as of the last day of the latest business year of the Corporate Group, and both in the business year of the Corporate Group that includes the scheduled date of the dissolution and in the following business year, the amount of decrease in the net sales of the Corporate Group as a result of the dissolution is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the net sales in the latest business year of the Corporate Group;

(vi)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (v), (g) of the Act:that in each business year commencing within three years after the first day of the business year that includes the scheduled commencement date of sales of new products or business which uses new technology, the amount of increase in net sales of the Corporate Group to which the Listed Company, etc. belongs as a result of commercialization of new products or new technology is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the net sales in the latest business year of the Corporate Group, and the total amount of special expenditures for the commencement of sales of new products or business which uses new technology is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the book value of the Fixed Assets as of the last day of the latest business year of the Corporate Group;

(vii)the particulars set forth in Article 29, item (i) of the Order: that the business alliance or cancellation of a business alliance falls under any of the following:

(viii)the particulars set forth in Article 29, item (ii) of the Order: that the transfer or acquisition of shares or equity involving changes in a Subsidiary Company is the one which involves changes in the following Second-Tier Subsidiary Companies:

(ix)the particulars set forth in Article 29, item (iii) of the Order:that the amount of decrease or increase in the assets of the Corporate Group to which the relevant Listed Company, etc. belongs as a result of transfer or acquisition of Fixed Assets is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 30 percent of the Amount of Net Assets as of the last day of the latest business year of the Corporate Group;

(x)the particulars set forth in Article 29, item (iv) of the Order:that in each business year commencing within three years after the first day of the business year that includes the scheduled date of suspension or closure of business in whole or in part, the amount of decrease in net sales of the Corporate Group to which the Listed Company, etc. belongs as a result of the suspension or closure is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the net sales in the latest business year of the Corporate Group;

(xi)the particulars set forth in Article 29, item (vi) of the Order:that in each business year commencing within three years after the first day of the business year that includes the scheduled date of commencement of new business, the amount of increase in net sales of the Corporate Group to which the Listed Company, etc. belongs as a result of the commencement of new business is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the net sales in the latest business year of the Corporate Group, and that the total amount of special expenditures for the commencement of the new business is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the book value of the Fixed Assets as of the last day of the latest business year of the Corporate Group; and

(xii)the particulars set forth in Article 29, item (viii) of the Order:that the relevant person, having made a decision regarding the dividend of surplus of a Linked Subsidiary Company, will make a Purchase and Sale, etc. (meaning a Purchase and Sale, etc. prescribed in Article 166, paragraph (1) of the Act; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter) involving Specified Securities, etc. other than Subsidiary Linked Shares (meaning the shares specified in the articles of incorporation of the relevant Listed Company, etc. for which the dividend of surplus prescribed in Article 29, item (viii) of the Order is decided based on the dividend of surplus of a specific Subsidiary Company; the same applies hereinafter).

(i)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (v), (a) of the Act: that the share exchange falls under either of the following:

(ii)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (v), (b) of the Act: that the share transfer falls under either of the following:

(iii)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (v), (c) of the Act: that the merger falls under either of the following:

(iv)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (v), (d) of the Act: that the company split falls under either of the following:

(v)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (v), (e) of the Act: that the transfer or acceptance of transfer of business in whole or in part falls under either of the following:

(v)-2the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (v), (f) of the Act:that the amount of decrease in the assets of the relevant Linked Subsidiary Company as a result of a dissolution is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 30 percent of the Amount of Net Assets as of the last day of the latest business year of the Linked Subsidiary Company, and that both in the business year of the Linked Subsidiary Company which includes the scheduled date of the dissolution and in the following business year, the amount of decrease in the net sales of the Linked Subsidiary Company as a result of the dissolution is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the amount of the net sales in the latest business year of the Linked Subsidiary Company;

(vi)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (v), (g) of the Act:that in each business year commencing within three years after the first day of the business year that includes the scheduled commencement date of sales of new products or business which uses new technology, the amount of increase in net sales as a result of commercialization of the new products or new technology is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the net sales in the latest business year of the relevant Linked Subsidiary Company, and that the total amount of special expenditures for the commencement of the sales of new products or business which uses new technology are expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the book value of the Fixed Assets as of the last day of the latest business year of the Linked Subsidiary Company;

(vii)the particulars set forth in Article 29, item (i) of the Order: that the business alliance or cancellation of a business alliance falls under either of the following:

(viii)the particulars set forth in Article 29, item (ii) of the Order: that the transfer or acquisition of shares or equity involving changes in a Second-Tier Subsidiary Company is one which involves the changes in the following Second-Tier Subsidiary Companies:

(ix)the particulars set forth in Article 29, item (iii) of the Order:that the amount of decrease or increase in the assets of the relevant Linked Subsidiary Company as a result of the transfer or acquisition of Fixed Assets is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 30 percent of the Amount of Net Assets as of the last day of the latest business year of the Linked Subsidiary Company;

(x)the particulars set forth in Article 29, item (iv) of the Order:that in each business year commencing within three years after the first day of the business year that includes the scheduled suspension or closure date of business in whole or in part, the amount of decrease in net sales as a result of the suspension or closure of business is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the net sales in the latest business year of the Linked Subsidiary Company;

(xi)the particulars set forth in Article 29, item (vi) of the Order:that in each business year commencing within three years after the first day of the business year that includes the scheduled date of commencement of new business, the amount of increase in net sales as a result of the commencement of new business is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the net sales in the latest business year of the relevant Linked Subsidiary Company, and that the total amount of special expenditures for the commencement of new business is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the book value of the Fixed Assets as of the last day of the latest business year of the Linked Subsidiary Company;

(xii)the particulars set forth in Article 29, item (viii) of the Order:that the figure arrived at when the amount of dividend of surplus per share is divided by the amount of dividend of surplus per share associated with the period corresponding to the preceding business year is more than 0.8 and less than 1.2 (but only if the amount of dividend of surplus per share in the latest business year of the Linked Subsidiary Company and the amount of dividend of surplus per share in the latest business year which the Listed Company, etc. determined based on the dividend of surplus of the Linked Subsidiary Company are the same).

(i)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (vi), (a) of the Act:that the amount of damage arising from a disaster or in the course of performing operations is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to three percent of the Amount of Net Assets as of the last day of the latest business year of the Corporate Group to which the relevant Listed Company, etc. belongs;

(ii)the fact set forth in Article 29-2, item (i) of the Order: that the fact falls under either of the following:

(iii)the fact set forth in Article 29-2, item (ii) of the Order: that the fact falls under either of the following:

(iv)the fact set forth in Article 29-2, item (iii) of the Order:that in each business year commencing within three years after the first day of the business year that includes the day of disposition under laws and regulations, the amount of reduction in net sales of the Corporate Group to which the Listed Company, etc. belongs as a result of the disposition is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the amount of the net sales in the latest business year of the Corporate Group;

(v)the fact set forth in Article 29-2, item (vii) of the Order:that the amount for which there is a risk of default with regard to accounts receivable, loaned money, any other claims, or the rights to obtain reimbursement is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to three percent of the Amount of Net Assets as of the last day of the latest business year of the Corporate Group to which the relevant Listed Company, etc. belongs;

(vi)the fact set forth in Article 29-2, item (viii) of the Order:that in each business year commencing within three years after the first day of the business year that includes the date of suspension of a transaction with a Major Trading Partner, the amount of reduction in net sales of the Corporate Group to which the Listed Company, etc. belongs as a result of the suspension of the transaction is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the net sales in the latest business year of the Corporate Group;

(vii)the fact set forth in Article 29-2, item (ix) of the Order:that the amount of exemption from obligation or the amount of assumption or performance of obligations is less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the total amount of obligations as of the last day of the latest business year of the Corporate Group to which the relevant Listed Company, etc. belongs;

(viii)the fact set forth in Article 29-2, item (x) of the Order:that in each business year commencing within three years after the first day of the business year in which mining or collection of a discovered resource is commenced, the amount of increase in net sales of the Corporate Group to which the Listed Company, etc. belongs as a result of business using the resource is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the net sales in the latest business year of the Corporate Group.

(i)the fact set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (vi), (a) of the Act:that the amount of damage arising from a disaster or in the course of performing operations is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to three percent of the Amount of Net Assets as of the last day of the latest business year of the Linked Subsidiary Company;

(ii)the fact set forth in Article 29-2, item (i) of the Order: that the fact falls under either of the following:

(iii)the fact set forth in Article 29-2, item (ii) of the Order: that the fact falls under either of the following:

(iv)the fact set forth in Article 29-2, item (iii) of the Order:that in each business year commencing within three years after the first day of the business year that includes the day of disposition under laws and regulations, the amount of reduction in net sales as a result of the disposition is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the amount of the net sales in the latest business year of the Linked Subsidiary Company;

(v)the fact set forth in Article 29-2, item (vii) of the Order:that the amount for which there is a risk of default with regard to accounts receivable, loaned money, any other claims, or the rights to obtain reimbursement is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to three percent of the Amount of Net Assets as of the last day of the latest business year of the Linked Subsidiary Company;

(vi)the fact set forth in Article 29-2, item (viii) of the Order:that in each business year commencing within three years after the first day of the business year that includes the date of suspension of a transaction with a Major Trading Partner, the amount of reduction in net sales as a result of the suspension of the transaction is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the net sales in the latest business year of the Linked Subsidiary Company;

(vii)the fact set forth in Article 29-2, item (ix) of the Order:that the amount of exemption from obligations or the amount of assumption or performance of obligations is less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the total amount of obligations as of the last day of the latest business year of the Linked Subsidiary Company; and

(viii)the fact set forth in Article 29-2, item (x) of the Order:that in each business year commencing within three years after the first day of the business year in which mining or collection of a discovered resource is commenced, the amount of increase in net sales as a result of business using the resource is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the net sales in the latest business year of the Linked Subsidiary Company.

(i)net sales:that the figure arrived at when the newly prepared forecasts or the numbers in the settlement of accounts for the relevant business year are divided by the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding business year) is either 1.1 or greater or 0.9 or less;

(ii)current profits:that the figure arrived at when the newly prepared forecasts or the results in the settlement of accounts for the business year are divided by the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding business year) is either 1.3 or greater or 0.7 or less (all cases in which the latest published forecasts or the results of the preceding business year which have been published for lack of relevant forecasts are zero fall under this criteria); and either that when whichever is greater, the newly prepared forecasts or the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding business year) is deducted from the lesser of these and the resulting difference is then divided by whichever is greater of the Amount of Net Assets or the amount of stated capital as of the last day of the preceding business year, the resulting figure is at least 5 percent; or that when whichever is greater, the numbers in the settlement of accounts for the relevant business year or the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding business year) is deducted from the lesser of these and the resulting difference is then divided by whichever is greater of the Amount of Net Assets or the amount of stated capital as of the last day of the preceding business year, the resulting figure is at least 5 percent;

(iii)net profit:that the figure arrived at when the newly prepared forecasts or the results in the settlement of account for the business year are divided by the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding business year) is either 1.3 or greater or 0.7 or less (all cases in which the latest published forecasts or the results of the preceding business year which have been published for lack of relevant forecasts are zero fall under this criteria); and either that when whichever is greater, the newly prepared forecasts or the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding business year) is deducted from the lesser of these and the resulting difference is then divided by whichever is greater of the Amount of Net Assets or the amount of stated capital as of the last day of the preceding business year, the resulting figure is at least 5 percent; or that when whichever is greater, the numbers in the settlement of accounts for the relevant business year or the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding business year) is deducted from the lesser of these and the resulting difference is then divided by whichever is greater of the Amount of Net Assets or the amount of stated capital as of the last day of the preceding business year, the resulting figure is at least 5 percent.

(i)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (ix), (b) of the Act: that the total amount to be paid in for the solicitation of persons to subscribe for investment equity issued by an Investment Corporation prescribed in Article 82, paragraph (1) of the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations is expected to be less than 100 million yen (or an amount equivalent to 100 million yen, if it is soliciting persons to subscribe for Investment Securities indicated in foreign currency);

(ii)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (ix), (d) of the Act: that the total amount to be paid in upon the exercise of Investment Equity Subscription Rights to be allotted by Allotment of Investment Equity Subscription Rights without Contribution (meaning Allotment of Investment Equity Subscription Rights without Contribution as prescribed in Article 88-13 of the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations; hereinafter the same applies in this item and Article 59, paragraph (1), item (xiii) and Article 63, paragraph (1), item (xiii)) is expected to be less than 100 million yen (or an amount equivalent to 100 million yen, if Investment Equity Subscription Rights associated with Investment Equity Subscription Rights Certificates indicated in foreign currency are to be allotted) and the ratio of the number of units of investment equity underlying the Investment Equity Subscription Rights allotted per unit by the Allotment of Investment Equity Subscription Rights without Contribution is less than 0.1;

(iii)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (ix), (e) of the Act: that the ratio of the number of units of investment equity increased per unit through a split of investment equity is less than 0.1;

(iv)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (ix), (f) of the Act: that the figure arrived at when the amount of money distributed per unit is divided by the amount of money distributed per unit in the previous Business Period is more than 0.8 but less than 1.2;

(v)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (ix), (g) of the Act: that the amount of increase in assets of an Investment Corporation as a result of the merger is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 30 percent of the Amount of Net Assets as of the last day of the latest Business Period of the Investment Corporation, and the amount of increase in operating profit of the Investment Corporation as a result of the merger both in the Business Period that includes the scheduled date of the merger and in the following Business Period (or both the specified Business Period (meaning two consecutive Business Periods; the same applies hereinafter) that commences on the day of commencement of the Business Period that includes the scheduled date of the merger and the following specified Business Period, if the Business Period of the Investment Corporation is six months) is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the operating profit in the latest Business Period of the Investment Corporation (or the total amount of operating profit in the two latest Business Periods, if the Business Period of the Investment Corporation is six months).

(i)the fact set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (x), (a) of the Act: that the amount of damage arising from a disaster or in the course of performing operations is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to three percent of the Amount of Net Assets as of the last day of the latest Business Period of the Investment Corporation;

(ii)the fact set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (x), (b) of the Act: that a fact that may be a grounds for delisting or recession of registration of Investment Corporation Bonds as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xi) of the Act (excluding a fact which may be a grounds for delisting of investment equity) has occurred;

(iii)the fact set forth in Article 29-2-3, item (i) of the Order: that the fact falls under either of the following:

(iv)the fact set forth in Article 29-2-3, item (ii) of the Order: that the fact falls under either of the following:

(v)the fact set forth in Article 29-2-3, item (iii) of the Order: that in each Business Period commencing within three years after the first day of the Business Period that includes the day of disposition under laws and regulations, the amount of reduction in operating profit of an Investment Corporation as a result of the disposition is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the amount of the operating profit in the latest Business Period of the Investment Corporation;

(vi)the fact set forth in Article 29-2-3, item (vi) of the Order: that the amount for which there is a risk of default with regard to accounts receivable, loaned money, any other claims, or the rights to obtain reimbursement is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to three percent of the Amount of Net Assets of an Investment Corporation as of the last day of the latest Business Period;

(vii)the fact set forth in Article 29-2-3, item (vii) of the Order: that in each Business Period commencing within three years after the first day of the Business Period that includes the date of suspension of a transaction with a Major Trading Partner (meaning a Major Trading Partner as prescribed in that item), the amount of reduction in operating profit of an Investment Corporation as a result of the suspension of the transaction is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the operating profit in the latest Business Period of the Investment Corporation;

(viii)the fact set forth in Article 29-2-3, item (viii) of the Order: that the amount of exemption from obligation or the amount of assumption or performance of obligations is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the total amount of obligations as of the last day of the latest Business Period of an Investment Corporation; and

(ix)the fact set forth in Article 29-2-3, item (ix) of the Order: that in each Business Period which commences within three years from the day of commencement of the Business Period in which mining or collection of a discovered resource is commenced, the amount of increase in operating profit of an Investment Corporation as a result of the resource is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the operating profit in the latest Business Period of the Investment Corporation.

(i)operating profit:that the figure arrived at when the newly prepared forecasts or the figure in the settlement of account for the Business Period is divided by the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding Business Period) is not less than 1.1, or not more than 0.9;

(ii)current profits:that the figure arrived at when the newly prepared forecasts or the figure in the settlement of account for the Business Period are divided by the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding Business Period) is either 1.3 or greater or 0.7 or less (cases in which the latest published forecasts or the actual figures of the preceding Business Period which have been publicized for lack of relevant forecasts are zero all fall under this criteria), and that the figure arrived at when the newly prepared forecasts or the difference arrived at when the smaller is deducted from the larger between the figure in the settlement of account for the Business Period and the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding Business Period) are divided by the Amount of Net Assets as of the last day of the preceding Business Period is not less than 5 percent;

(iii)net profit:that the figure arrived at when the newly prepared forecasts or the figure in the settlement of account for the Business Period are divided by the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding Business Period) is either 1.3 or greater or 0.7 or less (cases in which the latest published forecasts or the actual figures of the preceding Business Period which have been publicized for lack of relevant forecasts are zero all fall under this criteria), and that the figure arrived at when the newly prepared forecasts or the difference arrived at when the smaller is deducted from the larger between the figure in the settlement of account for the Business Period and the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding Business Period) is divided by the Amount of Net Assets as of the last day of the preceding Business Period is not less than 2.5 percent;

(iv)distribution of monies:that the figure arrived at when the newly prepared forecasts or the figure in the settlement of account for the Business Period are divided by the latest published forecasts (or, if there are no such forecasts, the published actual figures of the preceding Business Period) is not less than 1.2, or not more than 0.8 (cases in which the latest published forecasts or the actual figures of the preceding Business Period which have been publicized for lack of relevant forecasts are zero all fall under this criteria).

(i)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (xii), (a) of the Act: that the asset investment falls under any of the following:

(ii)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (xii), (c) of the Act: that in the case of an Asset Management Company which is to become a Wholly Owning Parent Company in Share Exchange, share exchange other than share exchange in which changes in Major Shareholders are expected;

(iii)the particulars set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (xii), (e) of the Act:that in the case of an Asset Management Company which is to become a Company Surviving the Absorption-type Merger (meaning Company Surviving the Absorption-type Merger as prescribed in Article 749, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act), merger other than merger in which changes in Major Shareholders are expected;

(iv)the particulars set forth in Article 29-2-4, item (i) of the Order: that the company split falls under either of the following:

(v)the particulars set forth in Article 29-2-4, item (ii) of the Order: that the transfer of business falls under either of the following:

(vi)the particulars set forth in Article 29-2-4, item (iii) of the Order:that in each Business Period of the Investment Corporation which commences within three years from the day of commencement of the Business Period of the Investment Corporation which includes the scheduled date of the suspension or closure of business associated with asset investment, the amount of reduction in operating profit of the Investment Corporation as a result of the suspension or closure is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the operating profit in the latest Business Period of the Investment Corporation;

(vii)the particulars set forth in Article 29-2-4, item (iv) of the Order:that in each Business Period of the Investment Corporation which commences within three years from the day of commencement of the Business Period of the Investment Corporation which includes the scheduled date of the suspension or discontinuation of asset investment conducted under entrustment from the Investment Corporation in whole or in part, the amount of reduction in operating profit of the Investment Corporation as a result of the suspension or discontinuation is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the operating profit in the latest Business Period of the Investment Corporation;

(viii)the particulars set forth in Article 29-2-4, item (vi) of the Order:that in each Business Period of the Investment Corporation which commences within three years from the day of commencement of the Business Period of the Investment Corporation which includes the scheduled date of commencement of new asset investment conducted under entrustment from the Investment Corporation, the amount of increase in operating profit of the Investment Corporation as a result of the commencement of new asset investment is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the operating profit in the latest Business Period of the Investment Corporation, and the total amount of special expenditures of the Investment Corporation for the commencement of new asset investment is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the book value of the Fixed Assets as of the last day of the latest Business Period of the Investment Corporation.

(i)the fact set forth in Article 166, paragraph (2), item (xiii), (a) of the Act:that in each Business Period of an Investment Corporation which commences within three years from the day of commencement of the Business Period of the Investment Corporation which includes the day of disposition under laws and regulations, the amount of reduction in operating profit of the Investment Corporation as a result of the disposition is expected to be less than an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the amount of the operating profit in the latest Business Period of the Investment Corporation;

(ii)the fact set forth in Article 29-2-5, item (i) of the Order: that the fact falls under any of the following:

(iii)the fact set forth in Article 29-2-5, item (ii) of the Order: that the fact falls under either of the following:

(i)the total amount which the Listed Investment Corporation, etc. has paid and received as the consideration of transactions set forth in Article 29-3, paragraph (3), items (i) and (ii) of the Order in the past three years from the last day of the previous Business Period;

(ii)the total amount which the Listed Investment Corporation, etc. has paid to and received from the Interested Person, etc. as the consideration of transactions set forth in Article 29-3, paragraph (3), items (i) and (ii) of the Order in the past three years from the last day of the previous Business Period.

(i)the total amount of operating profit, etc. of the Listed Investment Corporation, etc. in the previous Business Period;

(ii)the higher of the amounts as listed below:

(i)share certificates associated with shares with no voting rights on any of the particulars which may be resolved at a shareholders meeting; and

(ii)securities or certificates which have been issued by a foreign person and have the nature of the Securities set forth in the preceding two items.

(i)share option certificates with the right to acquire only shares set forth in item (i) of the preceding paragraph; and

(ii)securities or certificates which have been issued by a foreign person and have the nature of Securities set forth in the preceding item.

(i)corporate bond certificates with share options with the right to acquire only shares set forth in paragraph (1), item (i); and

(ii)securities or certificates which have been issued by a foreign person and have the nature of Securities set forth in the preceding item.

(i)Beneficiary Certificates of Securities in Trust of which the Entrusted Securities are share certificates, Share Option Certificates, corporate bond certificates with share options (or instruments or certificates issued by a foreign person that have the nature of these Securities; but not those set forth in the items of paragraph (1) through paragraph (3); the same applies in the following item), Investment Securities, etc. (but not those set forth in paragraph (4); the same applies in the same item) or Investment Equity Subscription Rights Certificates, etc. (meaning Investment Equity Subscription Rights Certificates and Foreign Investment Securities similar to Investment Equity Subscription Rights Certificates; but excluding those set forth in the preceding paragraph; the same applies in the same item) (referred to as the "Beneficiary Securities of Share Certificates, etc. in Trust" in item (iv) of the following paragraph); and

(ii)Securities as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xx) of the Act that indicate rights associated with share certificates, share option certificates, corporate bond certificates with share options, Investment Securities, etc. or Investment Equity Subscription Rights Certificates, etc. (referred to as the "Depository Receipts for Share Certificates, etc." in item (v) of the following paragraph).

(i)for share option certificates, the means of using the number of voting rights from shares underlying the share options;

(ii)for corporate bond certificates with share options, the method in which the relevant number is the number of voting rights from shares underlying the share options attached to the corporate bond certificates with share options;

(iii)for securities or certificates which have been issued by a foreign person and have the nature of securities, the method in which the relevant number is the number of voting rights from shares, and for those which have the nature of share option certificates or corporate bond certificates with share options, the method in which the relevant number is the number of voting rights from shares into which the securities or certificates have been converted in a way equivalent to the securities or certificates issued by a domestic corporation;

(iii)-2for Investment Equity Subscription Rights, the method in which the relevant number is the number of voting rights from investment equity underlying the Investment Equity Subscription Rights;

(iii)-3for Foreign Investment Securities similar to Investment Equity Subscription Rights Certificates, the method in which the relevant number is the number of voting rights from investment equity into which the Foreign Investment Securities have been converted in a way equivalent to Investment Equity Subscription Rights Certificates issued by an Investment Corporation;

(iv)for Beneficiary Securities of Share Certificates, etc. in Trust, the method in which the relevant number is the number specified as follows according to the category of the Entrusted Securities set forth in the following items:

(v)for Depository Receipts for Share Certificates, etc., the method in which the relevant number is the number specified as follows according to the category of Securities associated with the rights indicated on the Depository Receipts for Share Certificates, etc.:

(i)one in which a person that has concluded a written contract for the Purchase and Sale, etc. of Specified Securities, etc. issued by a Listed Company, etc. with the Listed Company, etc. before coming to know a material fact about its business (meaning a material fact about its business as prescribed in Article 166, paragraph (1) of the Act; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) makes the Purchase and Sale, etc. in performance of the contract on the date for the Purchase and Sale, etc. specified in the written contract, or during a period from ten days prior to the time limit for the a Purchase and Sale, etc. specified in the written contract until the time limit;

(ii)one in which a person that has concluded a contract for a Margin Transaction with a Financial Instruments Business Operator before coming to know a material fact about its business, makes a Reversing Trade in performance of the contract during a period from ten days prior to the deferred time limit of performance of obligations associated with Securities for sale or the loan for purchase price specified by a Financial Instruments Exchange or Authorized Financial Instruments Firms Association;

(iii)one in which a person that has concluded a written contract for a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (v) or paragraph (22), item (vi) of the Act that concerns Specified Securities, etc. before coming to know a material fact about the business of the Listed Company, etc., in addition to taking part in the payment and receipt of money between the parties, transfers the Specified Securities, etc. in performance of the contract in a case in which a cause as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (v), (a) or (b) or paragraph (22), item (vi), (a) or (b) of the Act has occurred;

(iv)one in which an officer or employee of a Listed Company, etc. (or an officer or employee of another company that a Listed Company controls directly or indirectly; hereinafter the same applies in this item and the following item), jointly with another officer or employee of the Listed Company, etc., purchases share certificates or Investment Securities of the Listed Company, etc. (but only if that officer or employee purchases these by Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator, etc. with doing so, in the event that the purchase is of share certificates other than those that the Listed Company, etc. has purchased pursuant to the provisions of Article 156, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act (including as applied following a deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Articles 165, paragraph (3) of that Act)) and in which such purchases are made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if each officer or employee contributes less than one million yen per occasion; the same applies in the following item);

(v)one in which the officer or employee of a Listed Company, etc. concludes a trust contract with a person engaged in Trust Business for the purpose of investing trust property in share certificates or Investment Securities of the Listed Company, etc. where pursuant to the trust contract, the officer or employee gives instructions for the purchase of share certificates or Investment Securities of the Listed Company, etc. to the person engaged in Trust Business, and where the purchase is made continuously according to a fixed plan without depending on an individual investment decision (limited to cases in which the trust property for which the settlor is the officer or employee and the trust property for which the settlor is another officer or employee of the Listed Company, etc. are jointly invested);

(vi)one in which an employee of an Associated Company of a Listed Company, etc. (but not a Listed Investment Corporation, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this item through item (viii)), jointly with another employee of the Associated Company, purchases share certificates of the Listed Company, etc. by Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator with doing this (other than as set forth in item (iv)) and in which such purchases are made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if each employee contributes less than one million yen per occasion; the same applies in the following item);

(vii)one in which an employee of an Associated Company of a Listed Company, etc. concludes a trust contract with a person engaged in Trust Business for the purpose of investing trust property in share certificates of the Listed Company, etc. where pursuant to the trust contract, the relevant officer or employee gives instructions for the purchase of share certificates of the Listed Company, etc. to the person engaged in Trust Business (excluding cases set forth in item (v)), and where the purchase is made continuously according to a fixed plan without depending on an individual investment decision (limited to cases in which the trust property for which the settlor is the employee and the trust property for which the settlor is another employee of the Associated Company are jointly invested);

(viii)one in which a Person Who Has a Transaction Relationship with a Listed Company, etc. (meaning a person that has a transaction relationship with the Listed Company, etc. as designated by the Listed Company, etc. (or that person's officers, if the person is a corporation or any other type of organization; if the person is an individual, this applies only if that individual has a transaction relationship with the Listed Company, etc. in connection with that individual's business); hereinafter the same applies in this item), jointly with another Person Who Has a Transaction Relationship with the Listed Company, etc., purchases share certificates of the Listed Company, etc. by Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator with doing so, and in which such purchases are made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if each Person Who Has a Transaction Relationship contributes less than one million yen per occasion);

(viii)-2one in which an officer or employee of the Asset Management Company of a Listed Company, etc. (but only a Listed Investment Corporation, etc.) or a Corporation in Specified Relationship therewith, jointly with another officer or employee of the Asset Management Company or the Corporation in Specified Relationship, purchases Investment Securities of the Listed Company, etc. by Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator with doing so, and in which such purchases are made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if each officer or employee is to contribute less than one million yen per occasion);

(ix)one in which share certificates (or Preferred Equity Investment) or Investment Securities of a Listed Company, etc. are purchased by a person's Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator with doing so pursuant to a Contract for Cumulative Investment, and in which such purchases are made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if the amount to be paid in for one issue by each customer is less than one million yen per month);

(x)one in which a person makes a Purchase, etc. (meaning a Purchase, etc. as prescribed in Article 27-2, paragraph (1) of the Act) in accordance with a plan of tender offer as prescribed in Article 27-2, paragraph (1) of the Act for which the person has issued a Public Notice for Commencing Tender Offer under Article 27-3, paragraph (2) of the Act before coming to know a material fact about the business of the Listed Company, etc.;

(xi)one in which a person makes a Purchase, etc. (meaning a Purchase, etc. as prescribed in Article 27-22-2, paragraph (1) of the Act) in accordance with the plan of tender offer prescribed in Article 27-22-2, paragraph (1) of the Act that the person has filed with the Director General of the Kanto Finance Bureau in accordance with Article 27-3, paragraph (2) of the Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27-22-2, paragraph (2) of the Act before coming to know a material fact about the business of the Listed Company, etc.;

(xii)one in which a person makes a Secondary Distribution of Specified Securities (but only one in which a Financial Instrument Business Operator handles the Secondary Distribution) or an Exclusive Offer to Sell, etc. to Professional Investors (but only one in which a Financial Instruments Business Operator handles the Exclusive Offer to Sell, etc. to Professional Investors) in accordance with a plan for the Secondary Distribution of Specified Securities or Exclusive Offer to Sell, etc. to Professional Investors for which the person has obtained the consent of the Issuer or a plan for the Secondary Distribution of Specified Securities or Exclusive Offer to Sell, etc. to Professional Investors that has been disclosed in accordance with the measures for publication specified in Article 30 of the Order, before the person came to know a material fact about the business of the Listed Company, etc.;

(xiii)one in which an Issuer performs one of the following acts based on a plan for an Allotment of Share Options without Contribution or Allotment of Investment Equity Subscription Rights without Contribution (but only one regarding which provisions are established stipulating that, as a feature of the share options or Investment Equity Subscription Rights, the Issuer is to acquire the share option certificates associated with those share options or Investment Equity Subscription Rights Certificates associated with the Investment Equity Subscription Rights on the condition of certain grounds arising) which has been disclosed in accordance with the measures for publication or made available for public inspection specified in Article 166, paragraph (4) of the Act before the Issuer came to know a material fact about the business of the Listed Company, etc. (but only a plan to sell share option certificates or Investment Equity Subscription Rights Certificates subject to the acquisition to the Financial Instruments Business Operator that concluded a contract prescribed in Article 28, paragraph (7), item (iii) of the Act with the Issuer):

(xiv)cases other than those set forth in the preceding items, in which all of the following requirements are satisfied:

(i)a second company in which the Listed Company, etc. holds voting rights constituting over 50 percent of the Voting Rights Held by All the Shareholders, etc.;

(ii)a third company in which a second company as set forth in the preceding item holds voting rights constituting over 50 percent of the Voting Rights Held by All the Shareholders, etc.; or

(iii)a fourth company in which a third company as set forth in the preceding item holds voting rights constituting over 50 percent of the Voting Rights Held by All the Shareholders, etc.

(i)a second company in which a Listed Company, etc. holds voting rights constituting not less than 25 percent of the Voting Rights Held by All the Shareholders, etc.;

(ii)a second company whose net sales to a Listed Company, etc. in the previous business year were not less than 50 percent of the total amount of that second company's net sales; and

(iii)a second company whose purchases from a Listed Company, etc. in the previous business year were not less than 50 percent of the total amount of that second company's purchases.

(i)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (ii) of the Act that concerns Share Certificates, etc. (meaning the Share Certificates, etc. prescribed in Article 167, paragraph (1) of the Act; hereinafter the same applies except in Article 62 and Article 62-2):one in which the person in question will be the party to receive the money if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure (or the party to pay money, for Seller-Related Share Certificates, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this Article and the following Article);

(ii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph (or an equivalent transaction that a Financial Instruments Exchange specifies; hereinafter the same applies in this item) concerning Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or an Option equivalent thereto that a Financial Instruments Exchange specifies) and the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure (or the party to receive money, for Seller-Related Share Certificates, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this Article and the following Article), or an equivalent Option that a Financial Instruments Exchange specifies);

(iii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act that concerns the purchase and sale of Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of buyer (or the position of seller, for Seller-Related Share Certificates, etc., the position as a seller; hereinafter the same applies in this Article and the following Article) in the associated purchase and sale of Share Certificates, etc.) and the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of buyer (or the position of seller, for Seller-Related Share Certificates, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this Article and the following Article) in the associated purchase and sale of Share Certificates, etc.);

(iv)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iv) of the Act that concerns Share Certificates, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to receive the money if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or one in which the person in question will be the party to pay the money if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon;

(v)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph which concerns Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the person to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or an Option whose exercise would cause that person to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the person to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or an Option whose exercise would cause that person to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon);

(vi)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (v) of the Act that concerns Share Certificates, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to pay the money if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties have agreed upon in advance occurs;

(vii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph which concerns Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties agree upon in advance occurs) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person that exercises it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties agree upon in advance occurs);

(viii)a Foreign Market Derivatives Transaction involving Share Certificates etc.:one that is similar to what one of the preceding items prescribes for the category of transaction set forth in that item;

(ix)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (ii) of the Act that concerns Share Certificates, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to receive the money if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or one that is similar to this;

(x)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph which concerns Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or an Option similar to this) and the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or an Option similar to this);

(xi)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act that concerns the purchase and sale of Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of buyer in the associated purchase and sale of Share Certificates, etc. or an Option similar to this) and the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of seller in the associated purchase and sale of Share Certificates, etc. or an Option similar to this);

(xii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iv) of the Act that concerns Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction if the actual price of the Share Certificates, etc. at the time the person exercises the Option exceeds the figure that the parties agree upon in advance as the price that the Share Certificates, etc. will be if the party exercises that Option, or an Option similar to this) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction if the actual price of the Share Certificates, etc. at the time the person exercises the Option exceeds the figure that the parties agree upon in advance as the price that the Share Certificates, etc. will be if the party exercises that Option, or an Option similar to this);

(xiii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (v) of the Act that concerns Share Certificates, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to receive the money if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, one in which the person in question will be the party to pay the money if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or one that is similar to either of these;

(xiv)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph which concerns Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the person to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, an Option whose exercise would cause that person to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or an Option similar to these) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the person to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, an Option whose exercise would cause that person to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or an Option similar to these);

(xv)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (vi) of the Act that concerns Share Certificates, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to pay the money if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties have agreed upon in advance occurs, or one that is similar to this; and

(xvi)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (vi) of that paragraph which concerns Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (vi) of that paragraph if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties have agreed upon in advance occurs, or an Option similar to this) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (vi) of that paragraph if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties have agreed upon in advance occurs, or an Option similar to this).

(i)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (ii) of the Act that concerns Share Certificates, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to pay the money if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure;

(ii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph (or an equivalent transaction that a Financial Instruments Exchange specifies; hereinafter the same applies in this item) which concerns Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or an equivalent Option that a Financial Instruments Exchange specifies) and the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or an equivalent Option that a Financial Instruments Exchange specifies);

(iii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act that concerns the purchase and sale of Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of seller in the associated purchase and sale of Share Certificates, etc.) and the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of buyer in the associated purchase and sale of Share Certificates, etc.);

(iv)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iv) of the Act that concerns Share Certificates, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to pay the money if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or in which the person in question would be the party to receive the money if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon;

(v)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph which concerns Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the person to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or an Option whose exercise would cause that person to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the person to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or an Option whose exercise would cause that person to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon);

(vi)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (v) of the Act that concerns Share Certificates, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to receive the money if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties have agreed upon in advance occurs;

(vii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph which concerns Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person that exercises it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties agree upon in advance occurs) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties agree upon in advance occurs);

(viii)a Foreign Market Derivatives Transaction in Share Certificates, etc.:one that is similar to what one of the preceding items prescribes for the category of transaction set forth in that item;

(ix)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (ii) of the Act that concerns Share Certificates, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to pay the money if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or one that is similar to this;

(x)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph which concerns Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or an Option similar to this) and the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph if the Actual Figure exceeds the Agreed Figure, or an Option similar to this);

(xi)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act that concerns the purchase and sale of Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of seller in the associated purchase and sale of Share Certificates, etc. or an Option similar to this) and the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to acquire the position of buyer in the associated purchase and sale of Share Certificates, etc. or an Option similar thereto);

(xii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iv) of the Act that concerns Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction if the actual price of the Share Certificates, etc. at the time the person exercises the Option exceeds the figure that the parties agree upon in advance as the price that the Share Certificates, etc. will be if the party exercises that Option, or an Option similar to this) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction if the actual price of the Share Certificates, etc. at the time the person exercises the Option exceeds the figure that the parties agree upon in advance as the price that the Share Certificates, etc. will be if the party exercises that Option, or an Option similar to this);

(xiii)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (v) of the Act that concerns Share Certificates, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to pay the money if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, one in which the person in question will be the party to receive the money if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or anything similar to one of these;

(xiv)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act that concerns a transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph which concerns Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the person to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, an Option whose exercise would cause that person to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or an Option similar to these) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the person to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. rises above the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, an Option whose exercise would cause that person to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (v) of that paragraph if the price of the Share Certificates, etc. falls below the price they are at the time the transaction is agreed upon, or an Option similar to these);

(xv)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (vi) of the Act that concerns Share Certificates, etc.:one in which the person in question will be the party to receive the money if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties have agreed upon in advance occurs, or one that is similar to this; and

(xvi)a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (22), item (iii) of the Act that concerns the transactions set forth in item (vi) of that paragraph concerning Share Certificates, etc.:the acquisition of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to receive the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (vi) of that paragraph if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties have agreed upon in advance occurs, or an Option similar to this) or the granting of an Option (but only an Option whose exercise would cause the person exercising it to be the party to pay the money in the associated transaction as set forth in item (vi) of that paragraph if the cause set forth in (a) or (b) of that item that the parties have agreed upon in advance occurs, or an Option similar to this).

(i)related to those in which the number of Share Certificates, etc. (meaning the Share Certificates, etc. prescribed in Article 31 of the Order; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) bought up every year through the buying up is less than 2.5 percent of the Voting Rights Held by All Shareholders, etc. of the Issuer of the Share Certificates, etc.; or

(ii)related to those performed by a Financial Instruments Business Operator (limited to a person registered as referred to in Article 29 of the Act to engage in Type I Financial Instruments Business as prescribed in Article 28, paragraph (1) of the Act) engaged in a Securities-Related Business to facilitate the distribution of Securities with a customer as its counterparty in which the Share Certificates, etc. bought up through the buying up are to be resold immediately after the buying up.

(i)if information has been received about the fact that the tender offer prescribed in Article 27-2, paragraph (1) of the Act (but only if the main clause of that paragraph applies) will be launched for Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. (meaning Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. as prescribed in Article 167, paragraph (1) of the Act; hereinafter the same applies in this Article and the following Article): The following particulars on which information was received from a Specified Person Concerned with a Tender Offer, etc. (meaning Specified Person Concerned with a Tender Offer, etc. as prescribed in Article 167, paragraph (5), item (viii) of the Act; hereinafter the same apply in this Article) associated with the tender offer:

(ii)if information has been received about the fact that the buying up prescribed in Article 31 of the Order will be performed: The following particulars on which information was received from a Specified Person Concerned with a Tender Offer, etc. associated with the buying up:

(iii)if information has been received about the fact that the tender offer prescribed in Article 27-22-2, paragraph (1) of the Act will be launched for Listed Share Certificates, etc.: The following particulars on which information was received from a Specified Person Concerned with a Tender Offer, etc. associated with the tender offer:

(i)one in which a person that has concluded a written contract for a Purchase, etc. (meaning a Purchase, etc. as prescribed in Article 167, paragraph (1) of the Act; hereinafter the same applies except in item (x) and item (xi)) or Sale, etc. (meaning a Sale, etc. as prescribed in Article 167, paragraph (1) of the Act; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) of Share Certificates, etc. issued by the Issuer of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. or Listed Share Certificates, etc. with the Issuer before coming to know the Facts of the Tender Offer, etc. makes a Purchase, etc. or Sale, etc. in performance of the contract on the date for the Purchase, etc. or Sale, etc. that is specified in the written contract, or during a period from ten days prior to the time limit for the Purchase, etc. or Sale, etc. specified in the written contract until the time limit;

(ii)one in which a person that has concluded a contract for a Margin Transaction with a Financial Instruments Business Operator before coming to know the Facts of the Tender Offer, etc., makes a Reversing Trade in performance of the contract during a period from ten days prior to the deferred time limit for the performance of obligations associated with Securities for sale or the loan for purchase price specified by a Financial Instruments Exchange or Authorized Financial Instruments Firms Association;

(iii)one in which a person that has concluded a written contract for a transaction as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (v) or paragraph (22), item (vi) of the Act that concerns the Share Certificates, etc. subject to a Tender Offer, etc. before coming to know the Facts of the Tender Offer, etc., both takes part in the payment and receipt of money between the parties and transfers the Share Certificates, etc. in performance of the contract in a case in which a cause as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (21), item (v), (a) or (b) or paragraph (22), item (vi), (a) or (b) of the Act has occurred;

(iv)one in which an officer or employee of the Issuer of the Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. or Listed Share Certificates, etc. subject to a Tender Offer, etc. (or an officer or employee of another company that the Issuer controls directly or indirectly; hereinafter the same applies in this item and the following item), jointly with another officer or employee of the Issuer, purchases share certificates or Investment Securities of the Issuer (but only if the purchase is made by a person's Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator, etc. with doing so, in the event that the purchase is of share certificates other than those that the company has purchased pursuant to the provisions of Article 156, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act (including as applied following a deemed replacement of terms pursuant to Articles 165, paragraph (3) of the same Act)), and in which such purchases are made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if each officer or employee contributes less than one million yen per occasion; the same applies in the following item);

(v)one in which an officer or employee of the Issuer of the Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. or Listed Share Certificates, etc. subject to a Tender Offer, etc., based on a trust contract concluded with a person engaged in Trust Business for the purpose of investing trust property in share certificates or Investment Securities of the Issuer, gives instructions for the purchase of share certificates or Investment Securities of the Issuer to the person engaged in Trust Business, and if purchases are made continuously according to a fixed plan without depending on an individual investment decision (but only if the trust property for which the settlor is the officer or employee and the trust property for which the settlor is another officer or employee of the Issuer are jointly invested);

(vi)one in which an employee of an Associated Company of a company which is the Issuer of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. or of Listed Share Certificates, etc. associated with a Tender Offer, etc., jointly with another employee of the Associated Company, purchases share certificates of the company by Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator with doing this (other than cases as set forth in item (iv)) and in which such purchases are made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if each employee contributes less than one million yen per occasion; the same applies in the following item);

(vii)one in which an employee of an Associated Company of a company which is the Issuer of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. or of Listed Share Certificates, etc. subject to a Tender Offer, etc., based on a trust contract concluded with a person engaged in Trust Business for the purpose of investing trust property in share certificates of the company, gives instructions for the purchase of share certificates of the company to the person engaged in Trust Business (excluding cases set forth in item (v)), and if purchases are made continuously according to a fixed plan without depending on an individual investment decision (limited to cases in which the trust property for which the settlor is the employee and the trust property for which the settlor is another employee of the Associated Company are jointly invested);

(viii)one in which a Person Who Has a Transaction Relationship with the company that is the Issuer of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. or of Listed Share Certificates, etc. subject to a Tender Offer (meaning a person that has a transaction relationship with the company as designated by the company (or that person's officers, if the person is a corporation or any other type of organization; if the person is an individual, this applies only if that individual has a transaction relationship with the company in connection with that individual's business); hereinafter the same applies in this item), jointly with another Person Who Has a Transaction Relationship with the company, purchases share certificates of the company, etc. by Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator with doing so, and in which such purchases are made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if each Person Who Has a Transaction Relationship contributes less than one million yen per occasion);

(viii)-2one in which an officer or employee of an Asset Management Company of an Investment Corporation that is an Issuer of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. subject to a Tender Offer, etc. or a Corporation in Specified Relationship therewith, jointly with another officer or employee of the Asset Management Company or the Corporation in Specified Relationship, purchases Investment Securities of the Investment Corporation by Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator with doing this, and in which such purchases are made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if each officer or employee is to contribute less than one million yen per occasion);

(ix)one in which share certificates or Investment Securities of the Issuer of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. or of Listed Share Certificates, etc. subject to a Tender Offer are purchased by a person's Entrusting, etc. a Financial Instruments Business Operator with doing so pursuant to a Contract for Cumulative Investment, and in which such purchases are made continuously according to a fixed plan rather than being based on individual investment decisions (but only if the amount to be paid in for one issue by each customer is less than one million yen per month);

(x)one in which a person makes a Purchase, etc. (meaning a Purchase, etc. as prescribed in Article 27-2, paragraph (1) of the Act) in accordance with a plan for a tender offer as prescribed in Article 27-2, paragraph (1) of the Act for which the person has issued a Public Notice for Commencing Tender Offer under Article 27-3, paragraph (2) of the Act before coming to know the Facts of the Tender Offer, etc.;

(xi)one in which a person makes a Purchase, etc. (meaning a Purchase, etc. as prescribed in Article 27-22-2, paragraph (1) of the Act) in accordance with a plan for a tender offer as prescribed in Article 27-22-2, paragraph (1) of the Act that the person filed with the Director General of the Kanto Finance Bureau in accordance with Article 27-3, paragraph (2) of the Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27-22-2, paragraph (2) of the Act before coming to know the Facts of the Tender Offer, etc.;

(xii)one in which a person makes a Secondary Distribution of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. (but only those for which a Financial Instruments Business Operator handles the Secondary Distribution) or Exclusive Offer to Sell, etc. to Professional Investors (but only those for which a Financial Instruments Business Operator handles the Exclusive Offer to Sell, etc. to Professional Investors) in accordance with a plan for the Secondary Distribution of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. or Exclusive Offer to Sell, etc. to Professional Investors for which the person has obtained the consent of the Issuer, or a plan concerning the Secondary Distribution of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. or Exclusive Offer to Sell, etc. to Professional Investors which has been disclosed in accordance with the measures of publication specified in Article 30 of the Order, before the person came to know the Facts of the Tender Offer, etc.;

(xiii)one in which an Issuer performs the following acts based on a plan for an Allotment of Share Options without Contribution or Allotment of Investment Equity Subscription Rights without Contribution (but only those for which there are provisions stipulating that, as the features of share options or Investment Equity Subscription Rights, the Issuer is to acquire share option certificates associated with the share options or Investment Equity Subscription Rights Certificates associated with the Investment Equity Subscription Rights on the condition of certain grounds arising) that has been disclosed in accordance with the measures for publication or made available for public inspection specified in Article 167, paragraph (4) of the Act before the Issuer came to know the Facts of the Tender Offer, etc. (limited to a plan to sell share option certificates or Investment Equity Subscription Rights Certificates subject to the acquisition to the Financial Instruments Business Operator that concluded a contract prescribed in Article 28, paragraph (7), item (iii) of the Act with the Issuer):

(xiv)cases, beyond those set forth in the preceding items, in which all of the following requirements are satisfied:

(i)a second company in which the Issuer of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. or of Listed Share Certificates, etc. subject to a Tender Offer holds voting rights constituting over 50 percent of the Voting Rights Held by All the Shareholders, etc.; or

(ii)a third company in which a second company as set forth in the preceding item holds voting rights constituting over 50 percent of the Voting Rights Held by All the Shareholders, etc.;

(iii)a fourth company in which a third company as set forth in the preceding item holds voting rights constituting over 50 percent of the Voting Rights Held by All the Shareholders, etc.

(i)a second company in which a first company which is the Issuer of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. or of Listed Share Certificates, etc. subject to a Tender Offer, etc. holds voting rights constituting not less than 25 percent of the Voting Rights Held by All the Shareholders, etc.;

(ii)a second company whose net sales to a first company which is the Issuer of the Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. or Listed Share Certificates, etc. associated with a Tender Offer in the previous business year were not less than 50 percent of the total amount of the second company's net sales; or

(iii)a second company whose purchases from a first company which is the Issuer of Listed or Other Share Certificates, etc. or Listed Share Certificates, etc. associated with a Tender Offer in the previous business year were not less than 50 percent of the total amount of the second company's purchases.

(i)those of the Securities as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xii) of the Act that constitute Beneficiary Securities of loan trusts regarding which there is a contract to cover losses in principal;

(ii)the Securities prescribed in Article 2 of the Cabinet Office Order on Definitions;

(iii)those of the Securities as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xvii) of the Act that have the nature of the Securities set forth in item (i) through item (vi) of that paragraph and the preceding two items;

(iv)the Securities prescribed in Article 3 of the Cabinet Office Order on Definitions;

(v)those of the Securities as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xix) of the Act that are related to the Securities set forth in item (i) through item (vi) of that paragraph or in the preceding items or the following item through item (ix);

(vi)those of the Securities as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xx) of the Act that indicate rights associated with Securities as set forth in item (i) through item (vi) of that paragraph or in the preceding items;

(vii)the Securities set forth in Article 1, items (i) and (ii) of the Order;

(viii)the beneficial interest in a trust set forth in Article 2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Act and rights set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph that are deemed to constitute Securities pursuant to that paragraph, regarding which there is a contract to cover losses in principal; and

(ix)things that are deemed to be Securities pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act and that constitute the rights prescribed in Article 1-3-4 of the Order.

(i)the Securities prescribed in Article 2 of the Cabinet Office Order on Definitions;

(ii)those of the Securities as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xvii) of the Act that have the nature of the Securities set forth in item (i) through item (vi) of that paragraph and the preceding item;

(iii)the Securities prescribed in Article 3 of the Cabinet Office Order on Definitions;

(iv)those of the Securities as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xix) of the Act that are related to the Securities set forth in item (i) through item (vi) of that paragraph or in the preceding three items or the following item through item (viii);

(v)those of the Securities as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xx) of the Act that indicate rights associated with Securities as set forth in item (i) through item (vi) of that paragraph or the preceding items;

(vi)the Securities set forth in Article 1, items (i) and (ii) of the Order;

(vii)the beneficial interest in a trust set forth in Article 2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Act and the rights set forth in item (ii) of that paragraph that are deemed to be Securities pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph regarding which there is a contract to supplement profits; and

(viii)things that are deemed to be Securities pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act and that constitute the rights prescribed in Article 1-3-4 of the Order.