(i)a corporation or any other organization established based on laws and regulations of a foreign country, or a corporation or any other organization which has its principal office in a foreign country;

(ii)a company set forth in Article 26, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Act (excluding a specified listed company, etc.);

(iii)a corporation or any other organization in which the persons set forth in Article 26, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act account for the majority of its officers (meaning the officer prescribed in item (v) of that paragraph; the same applies hereinafter) or the majority of its officers having the authority to represent (excluding those set forth in the preceding two items); and

(iv)a partnership, etc. (meaning the partnership, etc. prescribed in Article 26, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Act; the same applies hereinafter) in which the persons set forth in item (i) of that paragraph and those set forth in the preceding three items account for the majority of executive partners (meaning the executive partner prescribed in item (iv) of that paragraph; the same applies hereinafter) of the partnership, etc. (excluding those set forth in the preceding three items);

(i)the net number of shares obtained by aggregating the number of substantial shares (meaning shares other than the shares for which the authority for exercise, etc. of voting rights, etc. (meaning the authority to exercise voting rights or any other rights as a shareholder of a share or the authority to give instructions regarding the exercise of voting rights or any other rights; hereinafter the same applies in this Article and paragraph (1), item (viii) of the following Article) is delegated to a person other than the owners of shares, and, as a result of this delegation, the owners of the shares cannot exercise the voting rights or any other rights as the shareholders of those shares; the same applies hereinafter) in a listed company, etc. owned by each shareholder of the listed company, etc. (limited to a foreign corporation, etc. or another company or its subsidiary company; the same applies in the following item), the number of substantial shares of the listed company, etc. owned by an individual or a corporation or any other organization (limited to one that falls within any of the categories set forth in Article 26, paragraph (1), item (ii), (iii), or (v): the same applies in the following item) that is a non-resident and that would fall under any of the items of paragraph (19) if the shareholder is deemed to be the acquirer of shares, etc. prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph (hereinafter referred to as the "person closely related to the shareholder" in this item), and the number of shares of the listed company, etc. that are subject to the investment in shares (including giving instructions to do so, and limited to investment in shares that satisfies the requirements prescribed in paragraph (7)) if the shareholder and the person closely related to the shareholder make investment in shares as entrusted by another person based on a contract such as a discretionary investment contract (meaning the discretionary investment contract prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xii), (b) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (Act No. 25 of 1948); hereinafter the same applies in this Article) (on the basis of the net total calculated by deducting the number of duplicate shares, if any; the same applies hereinafter); or

(ii)the net number of voting rights obtained by aggregating the number of voting rights substantially held or otherwise exercisable under contract (meaning voting rights held or otherwise exercisable under contract other than the voting rights held or otherwise exercisable under contract for which the authority for exercise, etc. of voting rights (meaning the authority to exercise voting rights as a shareholder of a share or the authority to give instructions regarding the exercise of voting rights; the same applies hereinafter) is delegated to a person other than the holders of voting rights held or otherwise exercisable under contract (meaning the voting rights held or otherwise exercisable under contract prescribed in Article 26, paragraph (2), item (iv) of the Act; hereinafter the same applies in this item), and, as a result of this delegation, the holders of the voting rights held or otherwise exercisable under contract cannot exercise the voting rights held or otherwise exercisable under contract; the same applies hereinafter) in a listed company, etc. that are held by each shareholder of the listed company, etc. (excluding voting rights subject to the undertaking of delegation of voting prescribed in paragraph (18); hereinafter the same applies in this item), and the number of voting rights substantially held or otherwise exercisable under contract in the listed company, etc. that are held by an individual or a corporation or any other organization that is a non-resident and that would fall under any of the items of paragraph (19) if the shareholder is deemed to be the acquirer of shares, etc. prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph (on the basis of the net total calculated by deducting the number of duplicate voting rights, if any; the same applies hereinafter).

(i)the persons set forth in the items of paragraph (3);

(ii)a partnership, etc., in which the ratio of the total of the amounts of capital contributions by the persons set forth in Article 26, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act and the persons set forth in the items of paragraph (3), to the total amount of capital contributions by all partners (meaning all partners prescribed in paragraph (1), item (iv) of that Article) is 50 percent or more (excluding those set forth in the preceding item);

(iii)a limited liability partnership prescribed in Article 2 of the Limited Liability Partnership Act (Act No. 40 of 2005) (hereinafter referred to as a "limited liability partnership" in this item), in which the persons set forth in the following account for the majority of partners of the limited liability partnership (excluding those set forth in item (i)):

(i)voting rights attached to shares that are subject to discretionary investment management targeting shares prescribed in paragraph (17) (limited to one that satisfies the requirements set forth in paragraph (16), item (iii), (a));

(ii)voting rights subject to the undertaking of delegation of voting prescribed in paragraph (18); and

(iii)voting rights subject to the authority for exercise, etc. of voting rights with regard to shares owned by another person (excluding the voting rights set forth in the preceding two items).

(i)a proposal on the election of a director or auditor (limited to a proposal by a foreign investor (meaning the foreign investor prescribed in Article 26, paragraph (1) of the Act; the same applies hereinafter) on election of the foreign investor itself or the election of a person specified by order of the competent ministry as a person related to the foreign investor);

(ii)a proposal on the transfer of the entire business set forth in Article 467, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Companies Act;

(iii)a proposal on an absorption-type merger prescribed in Article 2, item (xxvii) of the Companies Act (limited to the case where the company becomes a company absorbed in absorption-type merger set forth in Article 749, paragraph (1), item (i) of that Act; the same applies in Article 7, item (i));

(iv)a proposal on the dissolution of the company; and

(v)a proposal specified by order of the competent ministry as being equivalent to any of those set forth in the preceding items.

(i)consent given with regard to a substantial change of the business purpose of a company: one-third; or

(ii)consent given with regard to any of the matters relevant to the proposals set forth in the items of the preceding paragraph: 1 percent.

(i)banking business prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Banking Act (Act No. 59 of 1981) (including the business deemed to be banking business pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of that Act);

(ii)the business of a foreign insurance company, etc. prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (7) of the Insurance Business Act (Act No. 105 of 1995);

(iii)general gas pipeline service business prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Gas Business Act (Act No. 51 of 1954);

(iv)general electricity transmission and distribution prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the Electricity Business Act (Act No. 170 of 1964) and electricity transmission prescribed in item (x) of that paragraph;

(v)the business conducted by a financial instruments business operator prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act that engages in the Type-I financial instruments business prescribed in Article 28, paragraph (1) of that Act or the investment management business prescribed in paragraph (4) of that Article;

(vi)the business of a foreign trust company prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (6) of the Trust Business Act (Act No. 154 of 2004); or

(vii)funds transfer service prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Payment Services Act (Act No. 59 of 2009).

(i)if the amount of outstanding loans to a corporation having its principal office in Japan after the making of a loan prescribed in Article 26, paragraph (2), item (vii) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as "making of a loan" in this Article and Article 7, item (iii)) to that corporation is not less than 100 million yen and not more than the amount specified by order of the competent ministry: the amount specified by order of the competent ministry; or

(ii)if the amount of outstanding loans to a corporation having its principal office in Japan after the making of a loan to that corporation exceeds the amount specified by order of the competent ministry referred to in the preceding item: the amount calculated by deducting the total of the amount of the outstanding loan and the amount of the outstanding bonds issued by the corporation (limited to a company) and offered to specific persons as prescribed in paragraph (16), item (i) (hereinafter referred to as "bonds" in this item) which are owned by the person that made the loan (including the total of the amount of the outstanding loan made and the amount of the outstanding bonds acquired by an individual or a corporation or any other organization (limited to one that falls within any of the categories set forth in Article 26, paragraph (1), items (ii) through (v) of the Act: hereinafter referred to as a "corporation, etc.") that is a non-resident and that would fall under any of the items of paragraph (19) if the person that has made the loan is deemed to be the acquirer of shares, etc. prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph, and excluding the amount of the loan), from an amount equivalent to 50 percent of the amount specified by order of the competent ministry as the amount of liabilities of the corporation after the making of the loan (or zero, if the amount thus calculated is less than zero).

(i)a person engaging in the trust business, insurance business, or financial instruments business:

(ii)the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Export-Import Bank of the United States;

(iii)beyond what is set forth in the preceding two items, a person mainly engaging in making loans (excluding the making of loans by a person engaging in the business of purchase and sale, transportation, storage, or intermediation of purchase and sale of goods, in association with these transactions) in the course of trade; or

(iv)a person specified by order of the competent ministry as being equivalent to any of those set forth in the preceding three items.

(i)the acquisition of bonds issued by a company which are offered to specific persons among those set forth in the items of Article 26, paragraph (1) of the Act; provided, however, that the acquisition of bonds that falls under any of the following is excluded:

(ii)the acquisition of investment securities issued by a corporation established under a special law;

(iii)discretionary investment management targeting shares of a listed company, etc., which satisfies the following requirements:

(iv)undertaking of delegation of voting, which falls under any of the following:

(v)the acquisition of the authority for exercise, etc. of voting rights (referred to as "acquisition of the authority for exercise, etc. of voting rights, etc." in paragraph (1), item (v) of the following Article and Article 7, item (i)) with regard to shares of a listed company, etc. owned by another person, as a result of which the ratio of the net number of voting rights obtained by aggregating, after the acquisition, the number of voting rights substantially held or otherwise exercisable under contract by the person that has acquired the authority (hereinafter referred to as the "acquirer of authority" in this item) and the number of voting rights substantially held or otherwise exercisable under contract by an individual or corporation, etc. that is a non-resident and that would fall under any of the items of paragraph (19) if the acquirer of authority is deemed to be the acquirer of shares, etc. prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph, to the total voting rights in the listed company, etc., comes to 1 percent or more (excluding the cases that constitute the acts set forth in the preceding two items);

(vi)delegation of the authority to act as proxy in the exercise of the voting rights in a non-listed company which have continued to be directly held by a person since before the person becomes a non-resident (limited to delegation by a non-resident individual to any of the persons set forth in the items of Article 26, paragraph (1) of the Act, which falls under both of the following; referred to as "delegation of voting" in Article 7, item (i)):

(vii)the acquisition of consent for jointly exercising voting rights substantially held or otherwise exercisable under contract in a listed company, etc., from an individual or corporation, etc. that is another non-resident holding voting rights substantially held or otherwise exercisable under contract in the listed company, etc. (referred to as "acquisition of consent for joint exercise of voting rights" in Article 7, item (i)), as a result of which the ratio of the net number of voting rights obtained by aggregating the number of voting rights substantially held or otherwise exercisable under contract by the person that has acquired the consent (hereinafter referred to as the "consent acquirer" in this item and Article 3-2, paragraph (2), item (ii)), the number of voting rights substantially held or otherwise exercisable under contract by the person that has given the consent (hereinafter referred to as the "consenter" in this item), and the number of substantially held or otherwise exercisable under contract by an individual or a corporation, etc. that is a non-resident and that would fall under any of the items of paragraph (19) if the consent acquirer is deemed to be the acquirer of shares, etc. prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph, or fall under any of the items of items (i) to (xiv), (xvii), and (xviii) of that paragraph if the consenter is deemed to be the acquirer of shares, etc. prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph, to the total voting rights in the listed company, etc., comes to 10 percent or more.

(i)the person undertaking the delegation is a person that is not the company or its officer;

(ii)the delegation is relevant to a proposal regarding matters specified by order of the competent ministry as matters through which the person undertaking the delegation is likely to have substantial control of the management of the company or is likely to have a material influence on the management of the company; and

(iii)the delegation is accompanied by solicitation of another to have that person act as a proxy in the exercise of voting rights.

(i)a corporation, etc. in which voting rights in the number equivalent to 50 percent or more of the total voting rights are directly held by the acquirer of shares, etc. (meaning the acquirer of shares prescribed in Article 26, paragraph (2), item (iii) of the Act, the acquirer of voting rights prescribed in item (iv) of that paragraph, or the consenter prescribed in item (v) of that paragraph; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph);

(ii)a corporation, etc. (excluding one set forth in the preceding item) in which voting rights in the number equivalent to 50 percent or more of the total voting rights are directly held by the acquirer of shares, etc. and the corporation, etc. set forth in that item;

(iii)if the acquirer of shares, etc. is a corporation, etc.: a corporation, etc. (excluding those set forth in the preceding two items) that directly holds voting rights in the number equivalent to 50 percent or more of the total voting rights in the acquirer of shares, etc.;

(iv)if the acquirer of shares, etc. is a corporation, etc.: a corporation, etc. (excluding those set forth in items (i) and (ii)) that directly holds voting rights in the number equivalent to less than 50 percent of the total voting rights in the acquirer of shares, etc., when the total of the number of voting rights in the acquirer of shares, etc. directly held by the corporation, etc. that directly holds voting rights in a number equivalent to less than 50 percent of the total voting rights in the acquirer of shares, etc., and the number of voting rights in the acquirer of shares, etc. directly held by another corporation, etc. that directly holds voting rights in a number equivalent to 50 percent or more of the total voting rights in that corporation, etc., comes to 50 percent or more of the total voting rights in the acquirer of shares, etc.;

(v)a corporation, etc. (excluding those set forth in the preceding items) that directly holds voting rights in a number equivalent to 50 percent or more of the total voting rights in any corporation, etc. set forth in the preceding two items;

(vi)a corporation, etc. (excluding those set forth in the preceding items) in which voting rights in a number equivalent to 50 percent or more of the total voting rights are directly held by the corporation, etc. set forth in the preceding item;

(vii)a corporation, etc. (excluding those set forth in the preceding items) in which voting rights in a number equivalent to 50 percent or more of the total voting rights are directly held by the corporations, etc. set forth in the preceding two items;

(viii)a corporation, etc. (excluding those set forth in the preceding items) in which voting rights in a number equivalent to 50 percent or more of the total voting rights are directly held by the corporations, etc. set forth in item (iii);

(ix)a corporation, etc. (excluding those set forth in the preceding items) in which voting rights in a number equivalent to 50 percent or more of the total voting rights are directly held by the corporation, etc. set forth in item (iii) and the corporation, etc. set forth in the preceding item;

(x)an officer of the acquirer of shares, etc. (limited to a corporation, etc.) and an officer of the corporation, etc. set forth in each of the preceding items;

(xi)a corporation, etc. (excluding those set forth in items (i) through (ix)) in which the persons set forth in the preceding item account for the majority of officers;

(xii)the spouse of the acquirer of shares, etc. (limited to an individual);

(xiii)a lineal relative of the acquirer of shares, etc. (limited to an individual);

(xiv)if the acquirer of shares, etc. is a governmental organization or public entity or any entity equivalent thereto that is located in a country or region outside Japan: any other governmental organization or public entity or any entity equivalent thereto in that country or region (excluding those set forth in items (i) through (ix) and (xi));

(xv)if the acquirer of shares, etc. has agreed to exercise voting rights or any other rights as a shareholder of a listed company, etc. jointly with another non-resident individual or corporation, etc. that holds substantial shares of the listed company, etc., or if the acquirer of shares, etc. has agreed to exercise voting rights or any other rights as a shareholder of a listed company, etc. jointly with another non-resident individual or corporation, etc. that holds the authority for exercise, etc. of voting rights, etc. attached to the shares of the listed company, etc. owned by another person: the other non-resident individual or corporation, etc. (excluding those set forth in the preceding items);

(xvi)an individual or corporation, etc. (excluding the acquirer of shares, etc. and those set forth in the preceding items) that is a non-resident and that would fall under any of the categories set forth in items (i) through (xiv) if the person set forth in the preceding item is deemed to be the acquirer of shares, etc.;

(xvii)if the acquirer of shares, etc. is a partner of a specified partnership, etc. (meaning the specified partnership, etc. prescribed in Article 26, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Act; hereinafter the same applies in this item) (or a member of an organization similar to a specified partnership (meaning the organization similar to a specified partnership prescribed in item (iv) of that paragraph; the same applies in paragraph (4) of the following Article); the same applies hereinafter) (limited to the case where a partner of a specified partnership, etc. becomes the acquirer of shares, etc. along with an act equivalent to inward direct investment, etc. (meaning the inward direct investment, etc. prescribed in Article 26, paragraph (2) of the Act; the same applies hereinafter) conducted by the specified partnership, etc.): a managing partner of the specified partnership, etc. (excluding the acquirer of shares, etc. and those set forth in the preceding items); or

(xviii)an individual or corporation, etc. (excluding the acquirer of shares, etc. and those set forth in the preceding items) that is a non-resident and that would fall under any of the categories set forth in items (i) through (xv) if the person set forth in the preceding item is deemed to be the acquirer of shares, etc.

(i)the acquisition of shares or equity in a company or voting rights attached to the shares or equity through inheritance or bequest;

(ii)if, as a result of a merger of a corporation that owns shares or equity in a non-listed company (excluding one that operates a business of any of the business types specified by order of the competent ministry as business types involving inward direct investment, etc. that is highly likely to undermine national security; referred to as a "specified non-listed company" in the following item), a corporation that survives or a corporation newly established after the merger acquires the shares or equity or voting rights attached to the shares or equity: the acquisition of the shares or equity or the voting rights;

(iii)if, as a result of a split of a corporation that owns shares or equity in a specified non-listed company, a corporation newly established or a corporation succeeding to business after the split acquires the shares or equity or voting rights attached to the shares or equity: the acquisition of the shares or equity or the voting rights;

(iv)the acquisition of shares, equity, or voting rights in a non-listed company (excluding acquisition as a result of which the ratio of the number of shares, the amount of capital contributions, or the net number of voting rights obtained by aggregating the shares, etc. under ownership, etc. of the person that has acquired the shares, equity, or voting rights (hereinafter referred to as the "acquirer of shares, equity, or voting rights" in this item) after the acquisition ("shares, etc. under ownership, etc." means the number of shares of a non-listed company directly owned, the amount invested in a non-listed company, or the net number of voting rights obtained by aggregating the number of voting rights in a non-listed company directly held and the number of voting rights involved in the undertaking of delegation of voting (limited to those that fall under paragraph (16), item (iv), (a) of the preceding Article); hereinafter the same applies in this item), and the shares, etc. under ownership, etc. of an individual or corporation that is a non-resident and that would fall under any of the items of paragraph (19) of the preceding Article if the acquirer of shares, equity, or voting rights is deemed to be the acquirer of shares, etc. prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph, to the total number of issued shares, the total amount of capital contributions, or the total voting rights in the non-listed company, comes to 10 percent or more), other than the acquisition of shares, equity, or voting rights in a non-listed company that falls within the category of inward direct investment, etc. set forth in any of the items of the following paragraph;

(v)the acquisition of new shares issued as a result of a share split or consolidation of shares or of voting rights attached to the new shares, discretionary investment management targeting the new shares (meaning discretionary investment management targeting shares prescribed in paragraph (17) of the preceding Article (limited to one that satisfies the requirements set forth in paragraph (16), item (iii), (a) of that Article): the same applies hereinafter), or acquisition of the authority for exercise, etc. of voting rights attached to the new shares;

(vi)an act set forth in Article 26, paragraph (2), item (i), (iii) through (v), (vii), or (viii) of the Act or an act set forth in paragraph (16), item (i) through (v), or (vii) of the preceding Article, which is conducted by a specified listed company, etc. (meaning the specified listed company, etc. prescribed in paragraph (4) of the preceding Article; the same applies through to Article 4, paragraph (1), item (ii));

(vii)an act set forth in Article 26, paragraph (2), item (i), (iii) through (v), or (vii) of the Act or an act set forth in paragraph (16), item (i), through (v), or (vii) of the preceding Article, which is conducted by a partner in a partnership, etc. along with an act equivalent to inward direct investment, etc. conducted by the partnership, etc.;

(viii)if the authority for exercise, etc. of voting rights, etc. (excluding the authority to only exercise rights other than voting rights as a shareholder, and the authority to only give instructions regarding the exercise of the rights other than voting rights) has been delegated to a person other than the person that has acquired shares, and, as a result of this delegation, the person that has acquired the shares cannot exercise the voting rights or any other rights as the shareholder of those shares: an act set forth in Article 26, paragraph (2), item (iii) or (iv) of the Act conducted by the person that has acquired the shares;

(ix)the acquisition of shares of a listed company, etc. set forth in Article 26, paragraph (2), item (iii) of the Act, as a result of which the ratio of the net number of shares obtained by aggregating the number of substantial shares of the listed company, etc. that the person that has acquired the shares (hereinafter referred to as the "acquirer of shares" in this item) is to own after the acquisition, the number of substantial shares of the listed company, etc. owned by the acquirer of shares and an individual or corporation, etc. that is a non-resident and that would fall under any of the items of paragraph (19) of the preceding Article if the acquirer of shares is deemed to be the acquirer of shares, etc. prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph (hereinafter referred to as the "person closely related to the shareholder" in this item), and the number of shares of the listed company, etc. that are subject to the discretionary investment management targeting shares by the acquirer of shares and the person closely related to the acquirer of shares, to the total number of issued shares of the listed company, etc., is less than 1 percent;

(x)the acquisition of voting rights in a listed company, etc. set forth in Article 26, paragraph (2), item (iv) of the Act, as a result of which the ratio of the net number of voting rights obtained by aggregating the number of voting rights substantially held or otherwise exercisable under contract that the person that has acquired the voting rights (hereinafter referred to as the "acquirer of voting rights" in this item) is to hold in the listed company, etc. after the acquisition, and the number of voting rights substantially held or otherwise exercisable under contract in the listed company, etc. to be held by an individual or corporation, etc. that is a non-resident and that would fall under any of the items of paragraph (19) of the preceding Article if the acquirer of voting rights is deemed to be the acquirer of shares, etc. prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph, to the total voting rights in the listed company, etc., is less than 1 percent;

(xi)the consent set forth in Article 26, paragraph (2), item (v) of the Act, as a result of which the ratio of the net number of voting rights obtained by aggregating the number of voting rights substantially held or otherwise exercisable under contract in a listed company, etc. that are held by the person that gives the consent (hereinafter referred to as the "consenter" in this item), and the number of voting rights substantially held or otherwise exercisable under contract in the listed company, etc. that are held by an individual or corporation, etc. that is a non-resident and that would fall under any of the items of paragraph (19) of the preceding Article if the consenter is deemed to be the acquirer of shares, etc. prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph, to the total voting rights in the listed company, etc., is less than the ratio specified in each of the items of paragraph (12) of the preceding Article according to the categories of consent set forth in these items; or

(xii)beyond what is set forth in the preceding items, an act specified by order of the competent ministry.

(i)inward direct investment, etc. involved in a business type specified by order of the competent ministry as a business type that falls under either (a) or (b) (with regard to inward direct investment, etc. set forth in Article 26, paragraph (2), items (i) through (v) of the Act and paragraph (16), items (i) and (iii) through (vii) of the preceding Article: including the case where a subsidiary company of a listed company, etc. or any other company prescribed in these provisions, and a company specified by order of the competent ministry as another company on which the relevant company has a material influence in terms of decisions on its financial and operational or business policies (excluding a subsidiary company) operate a business of any of the business types specified by order of the competent ministry):

(ii)inward direct investment, etc. specified by order of the competent ministry as being likely to constitute inward direct investment, etc. set forth in Article 27, paragraph (3), item (ii) of the Act; or

(iii)inward direct investment, etc. specified by order of the competent ministry as being likely to constitute a capital transaction subject to the designation by the Minister of Finance under the provisions of Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Foreign Exchange Order (Cabinet Order No. 260 of 1980).

(i)the name, domicile or residence, nationality, and occupation of the person making the notification (if the person is a corporation or any other organization, its name, the location of its principal office, the content of the business it operates, its stated capital, and the name of its representative);

(ii)the business purpose regarding inward direct investment, etc.;

(iii)the amount and time of execution of inward direct investment, etc.;

(iv)the reason for conducting inward direct investment, etc.; and

(v)other matters specified by order of the competent ministry.

(i)if a person delivering the document is unable to meet the person to be served with the document prescribed in paragraph (7) at the place where the document is to be served: by delivering the document to an employee or any other worker of, or a person cohabiting with, the person to be served, who has reasonable discretion concerning the receipt of the document (referred to as an "employee, etc." in the following item); or

(ii)if the person to be served with the document prescribed in paragraph (7) or an employee, etc. thereof is not present at the place where the document is to be served, or these persons refuse to receive the document without reasonable grounds: by leaving the document at the place where the document is to be served.

(i)a person that has been sentenced to a punishment under the provisions of the Act, if five years have not yet passed since the day on which the person finished serving the sentence or ceased to be subject to its execution or the day on which the person has violated a disposition under the provisions of the Act or an order based on the Act (excluding the one set forth in the following item);

(ii)a person that has been issued an order under the provisions of Article 27-2, paragraph (4) of the Act or Article 28-2, paragraph (4) of the Act;

(iii)the government of a foreign country, a governmental organization of a foreign country, a local public entity of a foreign country, the central bank of a foreign country, or a political party or any other political group of a foreign country (referred to as a "foreign government, etc." in the following item and Article 4-3, paragraph (1));

(iv)a corporation or any other organization, which falls under any of the following:

(v)officers of the corporation or any other organization set forth in the preceding two items.

(i)inward direct investment, etc. as set forth in paragraph (2), item (ii) or (iii) of the preceding Article;

(ii)inward direct investment, etc. as set forth in Article 2, paragraph (16), items (ii), (iv), and (vi), and item (vii) (limited to inward direct investment, etc. relevant to a proposal regarding matters specified by order of the competent ministry as matters through which the consent acquirer is likely to have substantial control of the management of a company or is likely to have a material influence on the management of the company) (excluding that set forth in the preceding item);

(iii)inward direct investment, etc. involved in any of the business types specified by order of the competent ministry as business types involving inward direct investment, etc. that is highly likely to constitute inward direct investment, etc. involving national security, etc. among the business types specified by order of the competent ministry as prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i) of the preceding Article (including cases where a subsidiary company of a listed company, etc. or any other company involved in the inward direct investment, etc., and a company specified by order of the competent ministry as another company on which the company involved in the inward direct investment, etc. has a material influence in terms of decisions on its financial and operational or business policies (excluding a subsidiary company) operate a business of any of the business types specified by order of the competent ministry), other than those set forth in the following (excluding those set forth in the preceding two items):

(iv)inward direct investment, etc. intended for conducting an act that makes it difficult to implement a business of any of the business types specified by order of the competent ministry prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i) of the preceding Article in a continuous and stable manner (excluding those set forth in the preceding three items); or

(v)inward direct investment, etc. specified by order of the competent ministry as being equivalent to any of those set forth in the preceding items.

(i)specified acquisition through inheritance or bequest;

(ii)specified acquisition conducted by a specified listed company, etc.;

(iii)specified acquisition conducted by a partner in a partnership, etc. along with an act equivalent to specified acquisition conducted by the partnership, etc.;

(iv)beyond what it set forth in the preceding three items, an act specified by order of the competent ministry.

(i)the name, domicile or residence, nationality, and occupation of the person making the notification (if the person is a corporation or any other organization, its name, the location of its principal office, the content of the business it operates, its stated capital, and the name of its representative);

(ii)the business purpose regarding specified acquisition;

(iii)the amount and time of execution of specified acquisition;

(iv)the reason for conducting specified acquisition; and

(v)other matters specified by order of the competent ministry.

(i)a person that has been sentenced to a punishment under the provisions of the Act, if five years have not yet passed since the day on which the person finished serving the sentence or ceased to be subject to its execution or the day on which the person has violated a disposition under the provisions of the Act or an order based on the Act (excluding the one set forth in the following item);

(ii)a person that has been issued an order under the provisions of Article 27-2, paragraph (4) of the Act or Article 28-2, paragraph (4) of the Act;

(iii)a foreign government, etc.;

(iv)a corporation or any other organization, which falls under any of the following:

(v)officers of the corporation or any other organization set forth in the preceding two items.

(i)specified acquisition involved in any of the business types specified by order of the competent ministry as business types involving specified acquisition that is highly likely to constitute specified acquisition involving national security among the business types specified by order of the competent ministry as prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (2) (including cases where a subsidiary company of a non-listed company, etc. involved in the specified acquisition, and a company specified by order of the competent ministry as another company on which the non-listed company has a material influence in terms of decisions on its financial and operational or business policies (excluding a subsidiary company) operate a business of any of the business types specified by order of the competent ministry);

(ii)specified acquisition intended for conducting an act that makes it difficult to implement a business of any of the business types specified by order of the competent ministry prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (2) in a continuous and stable manner (excluding the one set forth in the preceding item); or

(iii)specified acquisition specified by order of the competent ministry as being equivalent to any of those set forth in the preceding two items.

(i)if the address and residence or any other place of service of the person to be served are unknown; and

(ii)if, with regard to service to be made in a foreign country, it is impossible to make service pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, or it is found to be impossible to make service even by such means;

(i)the conclusion of a contract involved in the conclusion, etc. of a technology introduction contract set forth in (a) through (d) (excluding the conclusion of a contract due to the change of one party to a contract involved in the conclusion, etc. of a technology introduction contract), which is related to designated technology (meaning technology specified by order of the competent ministry as technology involved in the conclusion, etc. of a technology introduction contract that is likely to undermine national security, disturb the maintenance of public order, or interfere with the protection of public safety; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph and Article 6-4, paragraph (2), item (ii));

(ii)the modification of terms of a contract involved in the conclusion, etc. of a technology introduction contract set forth in (a) through (d) of the preceding item (limited to a change to add designated technology); or

(iii)the conclusion, etc. of a technology introduction contract (excluding those set forth in item (i), (b) through (d)) for which the amount of consideration for a technology introduction contract is to exceed an amount equivalent to 100 million yen as a result of the modification of terms of the contract and which pertains to designated technology.

(i)the name, domicile or residence, and occupation of the person making the notification (if the person is a corporation, its name, the location of its principal office, the content of the business it operates, its stated capital, and the name of its representative);

(ii)the type of technology and consideration for the conclusion, etc. of a technology introduction contract;

(iii)the time of execution of the conclusion, etc. of a technology introduction contract;

(iv)the reason for conducting the conclusion, etc. of a technology introduction contract; and

(v)beyond what is set forth in the preceding items, the terms of a contract involved in the conclusion, etc. of a technology introduction contract, and other matters specified by order of the competent ministry.

(i)the name, domicile or residence, nationality, and occupation of the person making the report (if the person is a corporation or any other organization, its name, the location of its principal office, the content of the business it operates, its stated capital, and the name of its representative);

(ii)the business purpose regarding inward direct investment, etc. or specified acquisition;

(iii)the amount and day of execution of inward direct investment, etc. or specified acquisition; and

(iv)other matters specified by order of the competent ministry.

(i)the conclusion, etc. of a technology introduction contract concerning guidance on technology for business management; or

(ii)the conclusion, etc. of a technology introduction contract concerning technology other than designated technology.

(i)matters concerning the acquisition or transfer of shares or equity in a company (including a corporation established under a special law), acquisition of voting rights, discretionary investment management targeting shares, undertaking of delegation of voting, acquisition of the authority for exercise, etc. of voting rights, delegation of voting, acquisition of consent for joint exercise of voting rights, substantial change of the business purpose, appointment of a director or auditor, an absorption-type merger, or dissolution of a company: the competent minister for the business operated by the company (if the company's subsidiary company or a company specified by order of the competent ministry as prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (2), item (i) operates a business of any of the business types specified by order of the competent ministry as prescribed in that item, or the company's subsidiary company or a company specified by order of the competent ministry as prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (2) operates a business of any of the business types specified by order of the competent ministry as prescribed in that paragraph: including the competent minister for the relevant business; the same applies in item (vi));

(ii)matters concerning the establishment of a branch office, etc. in Japan, or a substantial change of the type or business purpose of a branch office, etc. in Japan: the competent minister for the business operated by the branch office, etc.;

(iii)matters concerning the making of a loan to a corporation having its principal office in Japan: the competent minister for the business operated by the corporation;

(iv)matters concerning the transfer or acquisition of, or succession to a business: the competent minister for the business;

(v)matters concerning the conclusion, etc. of a technology introduction contract: the competent minister for the business for which the technology involved in the conclusion, etc. of the technology introduction contract is to be introduced; or

(vi)matters concerning the acquisition of bonds issued by a company: the competent minister for the business operated by the company.

(i)receiving a notification based on the provisions of Article 27, paragraph (1) of the Act, Article 28, paragraph (1) of the Act, and Article 30, paragraph (1) of the Act;

(ii)giving notice of the shortening of a period based on the provisions of Article 27, paragraphs (2) and (4) of the Act, Article 28, paragraphs (2) and (4) of the Act, and Article 30, paragraphs (2) and (4) of the Act and other functions concerning the shortening of the period, which are specified by the Minister of Finance and the competent minister for the business;

(iii)sending a document stating the extended period based on the provisions of Article 27, paragraphs (3) and (6) of the Act, Article 28, paragraphs (3) and (6) of the Act, and Article 30, paragraphs (3) and (6) of the Act;

(iv)sending a document stating the content of a recommendation based on the provisions of Article 27, paragraph (5) of the Act, Article 27-2, paragraph (3) of the Act, Article 28, paragraph (5) of the Act, Article 28-2, paragraph (3) of the Act, and Article 30, paragraph (5) of the Act;

(v)receiving notice concerning the acceptance of a recommendation based on the provisions of Article 27, paragraph (7) of the Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 28, paragraph (7) of the Act and Article 30, paragraph (7) of the Act);

(vi)sending a document stating the content of an order based on the provisions of Article 27, paragraph (10) of the Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 28, paragraph (7) of the Act and Article 30, paragraph (7) of the Act), Article 27-2, paragraph (4) of the Act, Article 28-2, paragraph (4) of the Act, and Article 29, paragraphs (1) through (5) of the Act;

(vii)giving notice of rescission based on the provisions of Article 27, paragraph (11) of the Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 28, paragraph (7) of the Act and Article 30, paragraph (7) of the Act);

(viii)receiving a report based on the provisions of Article 55-5, paragraph (1) of the Act and Article 55-6, paragraph (1) of the Act;

(ix)preparing a record based on the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (9) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (13) of that Article, Article 3-2, paragraph (4), Article 4, paragraphs (8) and (10), Article 4-3, paragraph (4), Article 4-4, paragraph (2), and Article 5, paragraphs (6) and (8));

(x)receiving a report based on the provisions of Article 6-5; and

(xi)functions incidental to the functions set forth in the preceding items.