Article 1The purpose of this Act is to protect depositors, etc. and ensure the settlement of funds by failed financial institutions, by providing a system for the payment of insurance proceeds and the purchase of deposits and other claims necessary if the refunding of deposits, etc. is suspended by a financial institution, and by establishing a system for providing appropriate financial assistance to facilitate mergers and other resolutions of failed financial institutions, the management of failed financial institutions by financial administrators, the transfer of the business of failed financial institutions, and any other measures concerning resolving issues in relation to the failure of financial institutions, measures for the purchase of specified, difficult-to-collect claims, measures in response to financial crises, and measures for the orderly resolution of assets and liabilities of financial institutions, etc., thereby contributing to upholding an orderly credit system.

Article 1-2Consideration must be given to the autonomy of financial institutions in the application of this Act.

Article 2(1)The term "financial institutions" as used in this Act means the following (excluding those whose head office is located outside the jurisdiction under which this Act has effect):

(2)The term "deposits, etc." as used in this Act means the following:

(3)The term "depositors, etc." as used in this Act means depositors and other creditors in relation to deposits, etc.

(4)The term "failed financial institution" as used in this Act means a financial institution that has suspended the refunding of deposits, etc. (meaning the payment of obligations for deposits, etc.; the same applies hereinafter) or is likely to suspend the refunding of deposits, etc. in light of the status of its business or assets.

(5)The term "bank holding company, etc." as used in this Act means the following:

(6)The term "preferred shares, etc." as used in this Act means preferred shares (meaning shares for which, at the time of issuance, there are no matters on which voting rights may be exercised, with preferred contents with regard to dividends of surplus and distribution of residual assets; the same applies hereinafter), subordinated bonds (meaning bonds with a special clause of subordinated contents with regard to the payment of principal and interest, and which fall under bonds specified by Cabinet Order as contributing to the adequacy of equity capital of a bank, etc., bank holding company, etc. or the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd.; the same applies hereinafter), or preferred equity investments (meaning preferred equity investments prescribed in the Act on Preferred Equity Investment by Cooperative Financial Institution (Act No. 44 of 1993; hereinafter referred to as the "Preferred Equity Investment Act"); the same applies hereinafter).

(7)The term "shares, etc." as used in this Act means preferred shares, etc. and shares which are not classified as preferred shares.

(8)The term "subscription for preferred shares, etc." as used in this Act means subscription for preferred shares, etc. or loans for consumption made pursuant to subordinated loan agreements (meaning loans for consumption falling under those with a special clause of subordinated contents with regard to the payment of principal and interest, and which are specified by Cabinet Order as contributing to the adequacy of equity capital of a financial institution or bank holding company, etc.).

(9)The term "subscription for shares, etc." as used in this Act means subscription for shares other than preferred shares or the subscription for preferred shares, etc.

(10)The term "collateralization of damage" as used in this Act means compensating creditors, based on a contract concluded in advance, through partial repayment of an unpaid amount of a loan in cases where obligations under the loan are not satisfied in whole or in part.

(11)The term "transfer of insured deposits" as used in this Act means the assumption of obligations in relation to the deposits, etc. of a failed financial institution by another financial institution, when the obligations include obligations in relation to the deposits, etc. corresponding to amounts of insurance proceeds calculated under the provisions of Article 54, paragraphs (1) through (3) (including cases where the provisions of the same paragraphs are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-2, paragraph (2)) and Article 54-2, paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as the "insurance claim calculation provision") (excluding those associated with the transfer or assumption of business (hereinafter referred to as a "transfer of business, etc.")).

(12)The term "financial institution under management" as used in this Act means a financial institution that has become subject to an order to management as prescribed in Article 74, paragraph (1) pursuant to the provisions of Article 74, paragraph (1) or (2) or Article 110, paragraph (1).

(13)The term "bridge bank" as used in this Act means a bank that has taken over the business of a financial institution under management through the assumption of business, transfer of insured deposits, a merger, or company split (hereinafter referred to as the "assumption of business, etc."), whose primary purpose is to maintaining and continue the business on a temporary basis, and that has been established as a subsidiary company of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan (meaning a company of which voting rights exceeding fifty-hundredths of the voting rights held by all of its shareholders are held by the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan; the same applies hereinafter).

Article 69-2(1)With regard to obligations borne by a financial institution with regard to funds transfer transaction and other transactions specified by Cabinet Order as transactions in relation to the settlement of funds undertaken by a financial institution (excluding those for which payment is made in a foreign currency, and limited to those resulting from entrustment by a financial institution and by other persons who engage in financial business other than persons specified by Cabinet Order and to those specified by Cabinet Order; hereinafter referred to as "settlement obligations" in this Chapter), other than those that will be extinguished if there is refund of the covered deposits for settlement (hereinafter referred to as "specified settlement obligations" in this paragraph and paragraph (1) of the following Article), the specified settlement obligations will be deemed to be obligations in relation to the covered deposits for settlement, claims in relation to the specified settlement obligations will be deemed to be claims in relation to the covered deposits for settlement, creditors in relation to the specified settlement obligations will be deemed to be the depositors, etc., the amount of the specified settlement obligations will be deemed to be the amount of the covered deposits for settlement, and the repayment of the specified settlement obligations will be deemed to be refunding the covered deposits for settlement, for the purpose of applying the provisions of this Act (excluding Article 58-2, this Chapter, Article 73, and Article 127 and penal provisions pertaining thereto). In this case, the term "insurance premiums in relation to deposits that satisfy all of the following requirements (excluding foreign currency deposits and other deposits specified by Cabinet Order; hereinafter referred to as "deposits for payment and settlement purposes")" in Article 51-2, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "insurance premiums in relation to the specified settlement obligations," the term "insurance proceeds in relation to the deposits for payment and settlement purposes (excluding those held under the name of another person and other deposits for payment and settlement purposes specified by Cabinet Order; hereinafter referred to as "covered deposits for settlement")" in Article 54-2, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "insurance proceeds in relation to the specified settlement obligations," and the term "the amount of principal ... of" will be deemed to be replaced with "the amount of," the term "the covered deposits for settlement held thereby" in Article 54-2, paragraph (2) will be deemed to be replaced with "the claims in relation to the specified settlement obligations held thereby," the term "deposits, etc." in Article 55-2, paragraph (5) will be deemed to be replaced with "specified settlement obligations", and the term "covered deposits, etc." in Article 58-3, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "specified settlement obligations".

(2)Where the settlement obligations will be extinguished if there is refund of the general deposits, etc., the general deposits, etc. whose amount is equivalent to the amount of the relevant settlement obligations will be deemed to be the deposits for payment and settlement purposes.

Article 69-3(1)If the DICJ receives from any of the following persons an application for a loan of funds necessary for the repayment of the settlement obligations (limited to those carried out with respect to the covered deposits for settlement or specified settlement obligations corresponding to the amount of insurance proceeds calculated under Article 54-2, paragraph (1) and Article 54, paragraph (3) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-2, paragraph (2)), the DICJ may, when it finds it necessary, and following a resolution of the board, decide to make a loan in relation to the relevant application up to the total amount of insurance proceeds in relation to the relevant settlement obligations calculated under Article 54-2, paragraph (1) and Article 54, paragraph (3) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-2, paragraph (2):

(2)The provisions of Article 64, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the cases where a decision is made under the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of Article 64, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the cases where a decision to provide a loan is made under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "pertains to a merger, etc. to which ... is a party" in Article 64, paragraph (3) will be deemed to be replaced with "pertains to ...".

(3)The loan provided under paragraph (1) to a person specified in each of the following items will, in relation to creditors other than the DICJ in bankruptcy proceedings, reorganization proceedings, rehabilitation proceedings or special liquidation proceedings in relation to the relevant financial institution, be deemed to be provided prior to the decision prescribed in each respective item:

(4)The expected costs of the loan of funds provided pursuant to a decision under paragraph (1) will be deemed to be the expected costs of the financial assistance prescribed in Article 64, paragraph (2) for the purpose of applying Article 64, paragraph (2).

(5)The person specified in paragraph (1), item (ii) or (viii) will be deemed to be a financial institution for the purpose of the application of this Act in relation to the loan prescribed in paragraph (1).

Article 69-4(1)If a financial institution that owes the settlement obligations and settlement creditors (meaning other financial institutions that hold claims in relation to the relevant settlement obligations and also owe other settlement obligations to the relevant financial institution (including other persons who have acquired from the relevant other financial institutions the claims in relation to the relevant settlement obligations or assumed the relevant other settlement obligations and other persons specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) have, prior to the occurrence of an insured event in relation to the relevant financial institution, concluded a contract, under which the whole or part of the settlement obligations owed to each other will be extinguished by way of continuous set-off thereof, if the settlement obligations subject to the relevant contract arose after the relevant financial institution's insolvency, etc. (meaning insolvency (meaning the condition in which the relevant financial institution, due to the lack of ability to pay, is generally and continuously unable to pay its debts as they become due), suspension of payments, or a petition for the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings, commencement of reorganization proceedings, commencement of rehabilitation proceedings or commencement of special liquidation; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) and there has been a decision in relation to the relevant financial institution for the provision of a loan under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 127, paragraph (1)), the relevant settlement creditors may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 517 and Article 518 of the Companies Act, Article 71 and Article 72 of the Bankruptcy Act, Article 49 and Article 49-2 of the Corporate Reorganization Act (including cases where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 35 of the Act on Special Measures for the Reorganization Proceedings of Financial Institutions) and Article 93 and Article 93-2 of the Civil Rehabilitation Act, set off the settlement obligations specified in the following items that are owed by the relevant financial institution in relation to claims held by the creditors against the settlement obligations owed by the creditors prescribed in the item:

(2)The provisions of Article 653 of the Civil Code do not apply to a consignment contract concluded by the relevant financial institution in relation to the settlement obligations.

(3)When a decision has been made to loan funds under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article to a failed financial institution that has become subject to an order for commencement of special liquidation, the court may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 500, paragraph (1) and Article 537, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act, in response to an application filed by the relevant failed financial institution, grant permission for the repayment of the settlement obligations prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article.

(4)The court must, upon granting the permission under the preceding paragraph, specify the types of the settlement obligations to be repaid, limit of the amount of repayment, and period of repayment (in the case referred to in the same paragraph, the last day of the relevant period must precede the date of notice under Article 549, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act).

(5)When specifying the types of the settlement obligations to be repaid, limit of the amount of repayment, and period of repayment under the preceding paragraph, the court must hear the opinion of the DICJ in advance.

Article 70(1)In the cases prescribed in Article 57, paragraph (1) (including cases where the DICJ finds it necessary for the protection of the depositors, etc. of a financial institution subject to a category-one insured event), the DICJ may, following a resolution by the board, decide to purchase deposits and other claims in relation to an insured event prescribed in each item of Article 57, paragraph (1) (meaning claims in relation to the deposits, etc. held by the depositors, etc. in the financial institution subject to the insured event (excluding the deposits, etc. specified by Cabinet Order) that are not subject to a security interest; the same applies hereinafter).

(2)The purchase under the preceding paragraph will be made within the purchase period publicly announced under Article 72, paragraph (1) or (3), upon request by the depositors, etc. who hold deposits and other claims in relation to the insured event prescribed in the preceding paragraph based on an approximate estimate of the relevant deposits and other claims; provided, however, that if the DICJ has collected the deposits and other claims in relation to the purchase, if an amount obtained by deducting from the amount so collected the amount of costs specified by Cabinet Order as being required for the relevant purchase exceeds the amount equivalent to estimated proceeds payment in relation to the relevant purchase, the DICJ is to pay the excess to the relevant depositors, etc.

(3)The amount of estimated proceeds payment prescribed in the preceding paragraph is calculated by deducting from the amount of deposits and other claims to be purchased by the DICJ from the depositors, etc. the amount of interest, distribution of profits and any other amount equivalent thereto specified by Cabinet Order corresponding to the period between the date of the insured event and the date of the relevant purchase, and multiplying the amount thus calculated by a rate determined by the DICJ under paragraph (1) of the following Article (hereinafter referred to as "estimated proceeds payment rate").

(4)The provisions of Article 53, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of an amount equivalent to estimated proceeds payment in relation to the purchase under paragraph (2) (hereinafter referred to as "estimated proceeds payment").

(5)When the DICJ finds that the depositors, etc. did not make a request within the purchase period prescribed in paragraph (2) due to natural disaster or any other unavoidable reason, the DICJ may, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2), purchase deposits and other claims of the relevant depositors, etc. even after the lapse of the relevant purchase period.

Article 71(1)In making a decision under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the DICJ must, following a resolution of the board, specify the estimated proceeds payment rate for the purchase in relation to the relevant decision and obtain the authorization of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance for the relevant decision.

(2)When making a decision on the estimated proceeds payment rate under the preceding paragraph, the board must take into consideration, in light of the financial conditions of the financial institution in relation to the decision under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the expected amount of payment to be received for deposits and other claims in relation to the relevant financial institution if it becomes subject to bankruptcy proceedings, and give due consideration to the efficient use of the DICJ's assets.

(3)When granting the authorization set forth in paragraph (1), the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance must obtain consent from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare if the relevant financial institution is a labor bank or Rokinren Bank, and must obtain consent from the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry if the relevant financial institution is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd.

Article 72(1)Upon receiving the authorization set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the DICJ must, following a resolution by the board, promptly specify the period, location, and method of the estimated proceeds payment in relation to the purchase of deposits and other claims and other particulars specified by Cabinet Order and give public notice thereof together with the estimated proceeds payment rate in relation to the relevant authorization.

(2)If, after giving public notice under the preceding paragraph, there is public notice under Article 197, paragraph (1) of the Bankruptcy Act (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 209, paragraph (3) of the relevant Act), notice under Article 137-2, paragraph (2), or any other event specified by Cabinet Order with respect to the relevant financial institution, the DICJ may, pursuant to Cabinet Order provisions, change the purchase period that was publicly announced under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

(3)If the DICJ has changed the payment period under the preceding paragraph, the DICJ must give public notice of particulars in relation to the relevant change without delay.

(4)When making payment under the proviso to Article 70, paragraph (2), the DICJ must, following a resolution of the board, specify the amount and period of payment and other particulars specified by Cabinet Order and give public notice thereof in advance.

(5)The provisions of Article 56, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to cases where the DICJ has specified the particulars prescribed in paragraph (1), changed the purchase period under paragraph (2), and specified the matters prescribed in the preceding paragraph.

Article 73(1)If depositors, etc. have received the estimated proceeds payment for the deposits and other claims which they hold (excluding those in relation to the long-term credit bank bonds, etc. issued by means of a discount, among those listed in Article 2, paragraph (2), item (v); hereinafter the same applies in this Article), if the amount of the relevant estimated proceeds payment (hereinafter referred to as "amount of estimated proceeds payment" in this Article) is equal to or less than the amount specified by Cabinet Order as the amount of principal of the relevant deposits and other claims on the date of the relevant estimated proceeds payment (hereinafter referred to as "amount of principal on the reference date" in this Article), the amount of estimated proceeds payment will be deemed to be the amount of principal to be repaid with respect to the relevant deposits and other claims, and if the amount of estimated proceeds payment exceeds the amount of principal on the reference date, the portion of the relevant amount of estimated proceeds payment equivalent to the relevant amount of principal on the reference date will be deemed to be the amount of principal to be repaid with respect to the relevant deposits and other claims, and the portion of the relevant amount of estimated proceeds payment that exceeds the relevant amount of principal on the reference date will be deemed to be the amount prescribed in each of the following items according to the category of the deposits, etc. in relation to the relevant deposits and other claims prescribed in each respective item, in applying the provisions of the Income Tax Act and other laws and regulations concerning income tax:

(2)If the depositors, etc. have received payment under the proviso to Article 70, paragraph (2), the amount of money received for deposits and other claims in relation to the relevant payment (hereinafter referred to as "amount of settlement payment" in this paragraph) will be deemed to be the amount prescribed in each of the following items according to the category prescribed in the item, in applying the provisions of the Income Tax Act and other laws and regulations concerning income tax:

(3)If the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply, necessary particulars for the application of the special provisions of Article 4-2 and Article 4-3 of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation and other provisions of the preceding two paragraphs will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 74(1)In cases where the Prime Minister (if a financial institution in relation to the order prescribed in this paragraph is a labor bank or Rokinren Bank, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if the financial institution is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd., the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; the same applies in the following paragraph, paragraph (4) (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of the following Article), paragraph (5), paragraph (1) of the following Article, Article 77, paragraphs (2) through (4), Article 79, paragraph (1) (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 79, paragraph (3)), Article 80, Article 84, paragraph (1), and Article 90) finds that a financial institution is unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets, or that, in light of the status of its business affairs or assets, a financial institution is likely to suspend refund of deposits, etc. or a financial institution has suspended refund of deposits, etc., and that any of the following requirements is satisfied, the Prime Minister may order that the business and assets of the relevant financial institution be placed under the management of a financial administrator (hereinafter referred to as "order to manage"):

(2)Upon receiving notification from a financial institution that a situation is likely to arise in which the financial institution is unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets, the Prime Minister may, when finding that the relevant situation is likely to arise and any of the requirements specified in the preceding paragraph are satisfied, issue the order to manage with respect to the relevant financial institution.

(3)A financial institution (excluding failed financial institutions) that has become subject to the order to manage under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs will be deemed to be a failed financial institution for the purpose of the application of this Act.

(4)Upon issuing the order to manage, the Prime Minister must give public notice thereof in the Official Gazette.

(5)A financial institution must, if it is unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets or is likely to suspend the refunding of deposits, etc. in light of the status of its business or assets, give written notification of the fact and reasons thereof to the Prime Minister.

Article 75(1)The Prime Minister must rescind the order to manage, when finding that there is no longer any need for the relevant order to manage.

(2)The provisions of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph.

Article 76(1)If a financial institution under management is a bank, etc. or the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd., the Prime Minister may, when finding it necessary, prohibit any entry of a change of the name of a shareholder.

(2)For the purpose of applying the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if a financial institution under management set forth in the preceding paragraph is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. as prescribed in the same paragraph, the term "the Prime Minister" will be deemed to be "the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry".

Article 77(1)When an order to manage has been issued, the right to represent a financial institution under management, conduct its business, and manage and dispose of its assets will be vested exclusively in a financial administrator. The same applies to the rights of a director and executive officer (if the financial institution under management is a Shinkin bank, etc., a director) prescribed in Article 828, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Companies Act (including cases where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 28 of the Shinkin Bank Act, Article 52-2 (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 58, paragraph (7) of the same Act) and Article 61-7 of the same Act, Article 32 of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Cooperatives Act, Article 57 (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 57-3, paragraph (6) of the same Act) and Article 67 of the same Act, Article 28 of the Labor Bank Act, Article 57-2 (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 62, paragraph (7) of the same Act) and Article 65 of the same Act), and Article 831 of the Companies Act (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 24, paragraph (10) and Article 48-8 of the Shinkin Bank Act, Article 27, paragraph (8), Article 54, Article 82, paragraph (4) and Article 82-10, paragraph (4) of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Cooperatives Act, and Article 24, paragraph (11) and Article 54 of the Labor Bank Act).

(2)The Prime Minister must, at the time of issuing an order to manage, appoint one or more financial administrators.

(3)The Prime Minister may, when finding it necessary, appoint another financial administrator after the appointment of a financial administrator under the preceding paragraph, or, when finding that the financial administrator has failed to properly manage the business and assets of the financial institution under management, dismiss the financial administrator.

(4)The Prime Minister must, if they have appointed or dismissed a financial administrator under paragraph (2) or the preceding paragraph, notify the financial institution under management to that effect and give public notice thereof in the Official Gazette.

(5)The provisions of Article 69, Article 70, Article 80, and Article 81, paragraphs (1) and (5) of the Corporate Reorganization Act apply mutatis mutandis to a financial administrator and the provisions of Article 78 of the Act on General Incorporated Associations and General Incorporated Foundations apply mutatis mutandis to a financial institution under management. In this case, the term "the permission of the court" in Article 69, paragraph (1) of the Corporate Reorganization Act will be deemed to be replaced with "approval from the Prime Minister" (if the financial institution under the management of the financial administrator is a labor bank or Rokinren Bank, of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if the financial institution is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd., of the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; the same applies hereinafter), the term "trustee representative" in Article 70 of the same Act will be deemed to be replaced with "financial administrator representative", the term "the permission of the court" in Article 70, paragraph (2) of the same Act will be deemed to be replaced with "approval from the Prime Minister", the term "the court" in Article 81, paragraph (1) of the same Act will be deemed to be replaced with "the Prime Minister", the term "trustee representative" in Article 81, paragraph (5) of the same Act will be deemed to be replaced with "financial administrator representative", and the term "representative director and other representatives" in Article 78 of the Act on General Incorporated Associations and General Incorporated Foundations will be deemed to be replaced with "financial administrator".

Article 78(1)A corporation may be appointed as a financial administrator or financial administrator representative.

(2)The DICJ may be appointed as a financial administrator or financial administrator representative and carry out the business thereof.

Article 79(1)The Prime Minister must, when they have issued an order to manage or rescinded an order to manage, immediately notify the district court which has jurisdiction over the location of the head office or principal office of the financial institution under management to that effect, attach a transcript of the written order to a written commission, and commission its registration in the registry office which has jurisdiction over the location of the head office or principal office of the financial institution under management.

(2)The registration under the preceding paragraph must include the name and address of a financial administrator.

(3)The provisions of paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to cases where any changes occur to the particulars specified in the preceding paragraph.

Article 80The Prime Minister may, if they find it necessary, request a financial administrator to submit reports or materials with regard to the status of business and assets, etc. of a financial institution under management or order a financial administrator to prepare and submit a plan for its management and take other necessary measures.

Article 81(1)A financial administrator may request a company director, accounting advisor, corporate auditor, and accounting auditor of a financial institution under management (if the financial institution under management is a company with an audit and supervisory committee, a company director, accounting advisor and accounting auditor, if the financial institution under management is a company with a nominating committee, etc., a company director, executive officer, accounting advisor and accounting auditor, and if the financial institution under management is a Shinkin bank, etc., a director, inspector and accounting auditor; the same applies in Article 87, paragraph (5)), and a manager (if the financial institution under management is a credit cooperative, the Federation of Credit Cooperatives, labor bank or Rokinren Bank, a counselor), and any other employee of a financial institution under management, a financial institution agent (if the financial institution agent is a corporation, including any of its officers and employees) having a financial institution under management as its principal financial institution, the other party to a contract in relation to the agency or intermediary prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Shoko Chukin Bank Limited Act of the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. (limited to the case where it is a financial institution under management; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) (including any of its officers and employees), and an electronic payment handling service provider, etc. (including any of its officers and employees) having a financial institution under management as its entrusting financial institution, and a person who previously held any of these positions (with regard to any person who previously held any of these positions, limited to those items in relation to matters that could have been known by that person during the period when they were engaged in the operations of the financial institution under management) to report on the status of business and assets of the financial institution under management, or inspect the books, documents, and any other items of the financial institution under management and those of the financial institution agent having the financial institution under management as its principal financial institution, the other party to a contract in relation to the agency or intermediary prescribed in the same paragraph of the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd., and the electronic payment handling service provider, etc. having the financial institution under management as its entrusting financial institution.

(2)A financial administrator may, if it is necessary for carrying out their duties, inquire with, or request the cooperation of, government agencies, public entities, or any other person.

Article 82(1)Financial administrators and financial administrator representatives (hereinafter referred to as "financial administrator, etc." in this Article) must not divulge any secret which may have come to their knowledge in the course of their duties. The same applies after a financial administrator, etc. resigns from office.

(2)If a financial administrator, etc. has legal personality, its officers and staff who are engaged in financial administrator, etc. affairs must not divulge any secret which may have come to their knowledge in the course of their duties. The same applies after the relevant officers or staff members are no longer engaged in financial administrator, etc. affairs.

Article 83(1)A financial administrator must, in order to have a director, accounting advisor, corporate auditor or accounting auditor of a financial institution under management (a director, accounting advisor or accounting auditor if the financial institution under management is a company with an audit and supervisory committee, a company director, executive officer, accounting advisor or accounting auditor if the financial institution under management is a company with a nominating committee, etc., and a director, inspector or accounting auditor if the financial institution under management is a Shinkin bank, etc.) or a person who previously held any of these positions perform civil responsibilities based on a breach of obligations in the course of duties, file an action or take other necessary measures.

(2)A financial administrator must, when by carrying out their duties they believe that an offense has been committed, take necessary measures toward filing an accusation.

Article 84(1)Financial administrators must obtain approval from the Prime Minister when carrying out, for themselves or for a third party, any transaction with a financial institution under management. In this case, Article 108 of the Civil Code does not apply.

(2)An act will be null and void if the approval set forth in the preceding paragraph has not been obtained; provided, however, that it may not be duly asserted against a third party without knowledge of the requirement to obtain the approval.

Article 85Deleted

Article 86(1)In a financial institution under management, resolutions by a shareholders meeting or class meeting specified in Article 309, paragraph (2), item (iii) of the Companies Act (limited to the part in relation to Article 171, paragraph (1) of the same Act) through item (v) of the same paragraph, (ix), (xi), or (xii) of the same paragraph, or Article 324, paragraph (2), item (i) or (iv) of the same Act, resolutions or decisions under Article 48-3 of the Shinkin Bank Act, Article 53 of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Cooperatives Act, or Article 53 of the Labor Bank Act, and resolutions or decisions under Article 22, paragraph (2) (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (5) of the same Article), Article 29, paragraph (4) (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (5) of the same Article) or Article 35, paragraph (2) of the Act on Financial Institutions' Merger and Conversion may, notwithstanding these provisions, be made provisionally by two-thirds or more of the votes held by the shareholders, members, association members, substitute members, or representatives (referred to in paragraph (4) as "shareholders, etc.") present.

(2)In a financial institution under management, resolutions of shareholders meetings or class meetings specified in each item of Article 309, paragraph (3) or Article 324, paragraph (3) of the Companies Act and resolutions under Article 22, paragraph (3) (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (5) of the same Article) of the Act on Financial Institutions' Merger and Conversion may, notwithstanding these provisions, be made provisionally by a majority of the shareholders present and two-thirds or more of the votes held by the shareholders present.

(3)In a financial institution under management, resolutions of a shareholders meeting under Article 309, paragraph (4) of the Companies Act may, notwithstanding the provisions of the same paragraph, be made provisionally by a majority of the shareholders present and three-quarters or more of the votes held by the shareholders present.

(4)If a resolution or decision is provisionally made under paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as "provisional resolution, etc." in this paragraph and the following paragraph), the financial institution under management must notify its shareholders, etc. of the purpose of the relevant provisional resolution, etc. and must call a subsequent shareholders meeting, etc. (meaning the shareholders meeting, etc. prescribed in Article 66, paragraph (2); the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraph (6) of the following Article) within one month of the date of adoption of the relevant provisional resolution, etc.

(5)If a provisional resolution is approved by a majority as prescribed in paragraph (1) at a shareholders meeting, etc. under the preceding paragraph, a resolution or decision in relation to the matters of the relevant provisional resolution, etc. will be deemed to have existed when the relevant approval was given.

(6)The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to cases where a resolution is provisionally made under paragraph (2). In this case, the term "a majority prescribed in paragraph (1)" in the preceding paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "a majority as prescribed in paragraph (2)".

(7)The provisions of paragraphs (4) and (5) apply mutatis mutandis to cases where a resolution is provisionally made under paragraph (3). In this case, the term "a majority as prescribed in paragraph (1)" in paragraph (5) will be deemed to be replaced with "a majority as prescribed in paragraph (3)".

Article 87(1)If a financial institution under management that is a bank, etc. or the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. is unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets, the relevant financial institution under management may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 111, paragraph (2), Article 171, paragraph (1), Article 199, paragraph (2), Article 447, paragraph (1), Article 466, Article 467, paragraph (1), items (i) through (ii)-2, Article 471, item (iii), Article 783, paragraph (1), and Article 804, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act, carry out the following with the permission of the court:

(2)If a financial institution under management that is a Shinkin bank, etc. is unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets, the relevant financial institution under management may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 48-3 and Article 58, paragraph (1) of the Shinkin Bank Act, Article 53 and Article 57-3, paragraph (1) of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Cooperatives Act, and Article 53 and Article 62, paragraph (1) of the Labor Bank Act, carry out the following with permission by the court:

(3)Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 339, paragraph (1) (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis by replacing the terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 347, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act) and Article 403, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act, Article 35-8, paragraph (1), of the Shinkin Bank Act, Article 42, paragraph (1) of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Cooperatives Act, and Article 37-6, paragraph (1) of the Labor Bank Act, a financial administrator may, with the permission of the court, dismiss a company director, accounting advisor, corporate auditor or accounting auditor of a financial institution under management (if the financial institution under management is a company with an audit and supervisory committee, a company director who is an audit and supervisory committee member or another company director, accounting advisor or accounting auditor, if the financial institution under management is a company with a nominating committee, etc., a company director, executive officer, accounting advisor or accounting auditor, and if the financial institution under management is a Shinkin bank, etc., a director, inspector or accounting auditor; the same applies in the following paragraph).

(4)If a financial administrator intends to dismiss any company director, accounting advisor, corporate auditor or accounting auditor of a financial institution under management under the preceding paragraph, if the number of company directors, accounting advisors, corporate auditors or accounting auditors fails to meet the number prescribed by an Act or by the articles of incorporation, the financial administrator may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 329, paragraph (1) and Article 402, paragraph (2) of the Companies Act, Article 32, paragraph (3) of the Shinkin Bank Act, Article 35, paragraph (3) of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Cooperatives Act, and Article 32, paragraph (3) of the Labor Bank Act, appoint a company director, accounting advisor, corporate auditor or accounting auditor of the financial institution under management with permission from the court.

(5)The company director, accounting advisor, corporate auditor and accounting auditor of a financial institution under management appointed under the preceding paragraph will resign at the conclusion of the first annual shareholders meeting or ordinary general meeting (in cases where a general meeting of representatives is established, at which it is possible to appoint officers, the ordinary general meeting of representatives) convened after the conclusion of the management by the financial administrator in relation to the relevant financial institution under management, and an executive officer will resign at the completion of the first meeting of the board of directors held after the relevant annual shareholders meeting.

(6)When the permission prescribed in paragraphs (1) through (4) has been granted (hereinafter referred to as "substituted permission" in this Article and the following Article), it will be deemed that a resolution of a shareholders meeting, etc. or board of directors meeting has been adopted concerning matters in relation to the relevant substituted permission.

(7)The district court which has jurisdiction over the location of the head office or principal office of a financial institution under management has jurisdiction over cases in relation to the substituted permission.

(8)The court must, when it has made a substituted permission, serve a written decision thereof on the financial institution under management and give public notice of the outline of the decision.

(9)The public notice under the preceding paragraph will be published in the Official Gazette.

(10)A decision on the substituted permission takes effect as of the time of service thereof on the financial institution under management under paragraph (8).

(11)Shareholders, members, or association members may make an immediate appeal against a decision on the substituted permission within an unextendable period of two weeks from the date of the public notice set forth in paragraph (8). In this case, if the immediate appeal is against a decision on the substituted permission in relation to dissolution, it has the effect of a stay of execution.

(12)The provisions of Article 5, Article 6, Article 7, paragraph (2), Article 40, Article 41, Article 56, paragraph (2), and Article 66, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Non-Contentious Cases Procedures Act (Act No. 51 of 2011) do not apply to cases in relation to the substituted permission.

Article 88If a substituted permission in relation to particulars specified in paragraph (1), item (i), (ii), (v), or (vi) or paragraph (2), item (i) of the preceding Article or matters prescribed in paragraph (3) or (4) of the preceding Article, a transcript or extract of a written decision of the relevant substituted permission must be attached to a written application for registration in relation to the relevant particulars.

Article 89If a financial institution under management that is a bank, etc. or the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. has adopted a resolution for reduction in the amount of stated capital, the notice prescribed in Article 449, paragraph (2) of the Companies Act is not required to be given to the depositors, etc. or any other creditors specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 90A financial administrator is to conclude the management of a financial institution under management by transferring its business or taking other measures within one year from the date of the order to manage; provided, however, that in cases where it is impossible to conclude the management within the period due to unavoidable circumstances, the period may be extended for a period not exceeding one year with approval from the Prime Minister.

Article 91(1)The Prime Minister may, when finding it necessary to use a bridge bank for the succession of business of a financial institution under management (meaning the succession of business by a bridge bank through the assumption of business, etc. and the provisional maintaining and continuation of the business by the bridge bank; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter), make the following decisions:

(2)The Prime Minister may, when finding it necessary, rescind or modify a decision under the preceding paragraph.

(3)A financial administrator may, when finding it necessary, request the Prime Minister to make a decision under paragraph (1) or the preceding paragraph.

Article 92(1)When a decision prescribed in paragraph (1), item (i) of the preceding Article is made under paragraph (1) or (2) of the preceding Article, the DICJ must, following a resolution by the board on the details of contribution in relation to the relevant decision, become the incorporator of a stock company that is to become a bridge bank, and provide contribution for the incorporation of the relevant stock company as a subsidiary company of the DICJ.

(2)Beyond the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, any contribution by the DICJ to the bridge bank requires a resolution by the board.

(3)Upon providing the contribution prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs, the DICJ must promptly report the details thereof to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.

Article 93(1)When a decision specified in Article 91, paragraph (1), item (ii) is made under Article 91, paragraph (1) or (2), a financial administrator of the financial institution under management is to select loan claims and other assets of the relevant financial institution under management to be succeeded to by the bridge bank pursuant to the succession of the business prescribed in Article 91, paragraph (1) and request the Prime Minister to confirm that they are appropriate assets to be held by the bridge bank.

(2)Upon receiving the request prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister is to carry out the confirmation under the preceding paragraph from the viewpoint of facilitating the smooth succession of the business and ensuring the sound and appropriate running of the business of the bridge bank.

(3)The Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance must prescribe standards in advance for carrying out the confirmation under the preceding paragraph and make the standards public.

(4)The standards prescribed in the preceding paragraph must include standards concerning the status of performance by an obligor of obligations in relation to claims subject to the confirmation prescribed in paragraph (2).

Article 94(1)The DICJ must manage the bridge bank to ensure the proper performance of the following:

(2)The DICJ must prepare guidelines for the administration of receipt and payment of the deposits, etc., loan of funds, and other operations of a bridge bank in accordance with the following and, following approval from the Prime Minister, make the guidelines public:

(3)The DICJ may give instructions and advice necessary for the management of a bridge bank.

Article 95The provisions of Article 467, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act (limited to the part in relation to item (v)) do not apply to the assets for which confirmation has been rendered under Article 93, paragraph (2) if all of the issued shares of the bridge bank are held by the DICJ.

Article 96(1)The DICJ is to conclude the management of a bridge bank within two years from the date of the order to manage of the first financial institution under management for which the bridge bank receives the transfer of business by taking the following measures; provided, however, that if the management cannot be concluded within the period due to unavoidable circumstances, the time limit may be extended for a period not exceeding one year:

(2)The DICJ must, if it intends to conclude management under the main clause of the preceding paragraph or extend the time limit under the proviso to the preceding paragraph, obtain approval from the Prime Minister.

(3)The DICJ must, when it has concluded the management of a bridge bank under paragraph (1) or transferred or made another disposal of shares of a bridge bank (including a bank that was formerly a bridge bank) (excluding those specified in paragraph (1), item (iii)), must promptly report to that effect to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.

(4)The "subsidiary company of the bridge bank" set forth in paragraph (1), item (iv) means a company of which voting rights exceeding fifty hundredths of the voting rights held by all of its shareholders (excluding voting rights relating to shares held by shareholders who may not exercise their voting rights for all of the matters which may be resolved at a shareholders meeting but including voting rights relating to shares for which holders are deemed to have voting rights pursuant to the provisions of Article 879, paragraph (3) of the Companies Act; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph and Article 120, paragraph (5)) are held by the bridge bank.

Article 97(1)The DICJ is to conclude an agreement with the bridge bank, and the following will be included in the agreement (hereinafter referred to as "succession agreement" in this Chapter):

(2)Upon concluding the succession agreement, the DICJ must immediately report the details thereof to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.

Article 98(1)If the DICJ has received an application from a contracted bridge bank for a loan of funds necessary to ensure the smooth execution of its business or for a guarantee of obligations in relation to the borrowing of the funds by the contracted bridge bank, the DICJ may, when it finds it necessary, provide the relevant loan or guarantee of obligations, following a resolution by the board.

(2)When the DICJ has concluded a contract with a contracted bridge bank under the preceding paragraph for a loan or guarantee of obligations prescribed therein, the DICJ must immediately report the details of the contract to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.

Article 99When any loss is caused to a contracted bridge bank, the amount of which is calculated pursuant to Cabinet Order provisions, as a result of operations carried out under the succession agreement, the DICJ may, following a resolution by the board, compensate the contracted bridge bank for the relevant loss within the scope of the amount prescribed in the Cabinet Order.

Article 100The DICJ may, when it finds it necessary for carrying out the operations prescribed in this Chapter, request the bridge bank to report on the implementation of the succession agreement or financial conditions in connection therewith.

Article 101(1)A financial institution that is undertaking re-succession of business and is not a bridge bank (hereinafter referred to as "re-succeeding financial institution" in this Article), or a bank holding company, etc. undertaking a re-succession of business (hereinafter referred to as a "re-succeeding bank holding company, etc." in this Article) may apply to have the DICJ provide financial assistance (limited to that specified in Article 59, paragraph (1), item (iii), (vi) or (vii)) to support the re-succession of business.

(2)The term "re-succession of business" as used in the preceding paragraph means the following:

(3)The purchase of assets prescribed in paragraph (1) will be conducted with respect to the assets prescribed in each of the following items according to the category of the re-succession of business specified in each respective item:

(4)The collateralization of damage prescribed specified in paragraph (1) will be conducted with respect to loan claims that are the assets prescribed in each item of the preceding paragraph according to the category of the re-succession of business specified in each respective item of the preceding paragraph.

(5)The provisions of Article 59, paragraphs (3), (6) and (7) and Article 61, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the application under paragraph (1), and the provisions of Article 61, paragraphs (2) through (4) and (6) through (8) apply mutatis mutandis to the confirmation prescribed in Article 61, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph. In this case, the term "assuming financial institution" in Article 59, paragraph (3) will be deemed to be replaced with "re-succeeding financial institution", and the terms "merger, etc.", "failed financial institution", "assuming financial institution", and "assuming bank holding company, etc." in Article 61 will be deemed to be replaced with "re-succession of business", "bridge bank", "re-succeeding financial institution", and "re-succeeding bank holding company, etc.", respectively.

(6)Even in cases where no application is made under Article 61, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister may, when the minister finds that a bridge bank satisfies the requirements specified in paragraph (3), item (iii) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph, provide mediation in writing with regard to the re-succession of business (excluding the merger specified in paragraph (2), item (ii) and limited to those that contribute to the protection of depositors, etc. and other creditors and for which financial assistance by the DICJ is indispensable) between the relevant bridge bank and another financial institution or the relevant bridge bank and a bank holding company, etc.

(7)The provisions of Article 62, paragraphs (2) and (4) through (6) apply mutatis mutandis to the mediation prescribed in the preceding paragraph; the provisions of Article 64 (excluding paragraph (2)) and Article 64-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the application under paragraph (1); the provisions of Article 64-3, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to a re-succeeding financial institution or a bridge bank whose shares are acquired as set forth in paragraph (2), item (iv) by a re-succeeding bank holding company, etc.; the provisions of Article 64-3, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to a re-succeeding financial institution, a Re-succeeding bank holding company, etc., or a financial institution established by the merger set forth in paragraph (2), item (ii) or the incorporation-type company split set forth in item (vi) of the same paragraph to which the DICJ provides the financial assistance (limited to those in relation to the subscription for subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options)); the provisions of Article 65 and Article 66 apply mutatis mutandis to the financial institution or bank holding company, etc. that has received the confirmation prescribed in Article 61, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (5) or that has received the mediation prescribed in the preceding paragraph; the provisions of Article 67 apply mutatis mutandis to the re-succeeding financial institution; the provisions of Article 68 apply mutatis mutandis to the financial assistance provided by the DICJ for re-succession of business; the provisions of Articles 68-2 and 68-3 apply mutatis mutandis to the re-succeeding financial institution, etc. (meaning the re-succeeding financial institution (including a financial institution established by the merger or incorporation-type company split in relation to the subscription for preferred shares, etc.) or the re-succeeding bank holding company, etc. (including the company prescribed in Article 68-2, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph if an approval has been obtained under Article 68-2, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph, and the bridge financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 68-3, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph if an approval has been obtained under Article 68-3, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) that have received the relevant financial assistance (limited to those in relation to the subscription for preferred shares, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph); and the provisions of Article 68-4 apply mutatis mutandis to special controlling shareholders of a re-succeeding financial institution, etc. to which the DICJ has provided the financial assistance and which has issued shares that are acquired preferred shares, etc. actually held by the DICJ or subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options). In this case, the term "Article 59, paragraph (1) or Article 59-2, paragraph (1)" in Article 62, paragraph (2) will be deemed to be replaced with "Article 101, paragraph (1)", the term "paragraphs (4) through (7) of the preceding Article" in Article 62, paragraph (4) will be deemed to be replaced with "paragraphs (4), (6) and (7) of the preceding Article", the term "a failed financial institution or a financial institution recognized as having a high probability of becoming a failed financial institution" in Article 62, paragraph (5) will be deemed to be replaced with "bridge bank", the term "merger, etc." in Article 64, paragraph (3) and (5) will be deemed to be replaced with "re-succession of business affairs", the term "assuming financial institution" and "assuming bank holding company, etc." in Article 64-2, paragraphs (1) and (2) will be deemed to be replaced with "re-succeeding financial institution" and "re-succeeding bank holding company, etc.", respectively, and the term "merger, etc." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "re-succession of business affairs", the terms "merger, etc. (limited to those specified in Article 59, paragraph (2), item (ii)" and "the relevant merger, etc." in Article 64-2, paragraph (4) will be deemed to be replaced with "re-succession of business affairs (limited to those specified in Article 101, paragraph (2), item (ii))" and "the relevant re-succession of business affairs", respectively, the terms "assuming financial institution" and "assuming bank holding company, etc." in Article 64-2, paragraph (5) will be deemed to be replaced with "re-succeeding financial institution" and "re-succeeding bank holding company, etc.", respectively, the term "merger, etc." in Article 65 will be deemed to be replaced with "re-succession of business affairs", the term "assumption of business, transfer of insured deposits" in Article 67 will be deemed to be replaced with "assumption of business", and the term "merger, etc. in Article 68 will be deemed to be replaced with "re-succession of business affairs", and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 101-2(1)In order to contribute to maintaining an orderly credit system through ensuring sound financial conditions of financial institutions, the DICJ may purchase loan claims or assets specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance as being equivalent thereto (hereinafter simply referred to as "loan claims" in this paragraph) which are held by a financial institution (excluding a failed financial institution, a bridge bank, the bank under special crisis management prescribed in Article 111, paragraph (2), the financial institution subject to specified confirmation prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) in relation to the specified measures under item (ii) prescribed in the paragraph, and a specified bridge bank; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) and of which the obligor or guarantor is a crime syndicate member (meaning the crime syndicate member prescribed in Article 2, item (vi) of the Act on Prevention of Unjust Acts by Organized Crime Group Members (Act No. 77 of 1991)) and for which there is a risk of non-compliance with the contract in relation to the loan claims, a likelihood that an act that will cause hindrance to the participation in an auction of secured real assets in relation to the loan claims will be conducted, or any other special circumstances that are likely to make it difficult for a financial institution to take necessary measures that should normally be implemented for collecting the loan claims (hereinafter referred to as "specified, difficult-to-collect claims").

(2)In cases where the DICJ is to purchase specified, difficult-to-collect claims under the preceding paragraph, it must comply with standards prescribed and publicly announced in advance by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.

(3)Upon receiving an application for the purchase of specified, difficult-to-collect claims from a financial institution, the DICJ must, following a resolution of the board, decide without delay whether or not to carry out the purchase of specified, difficult-to-collect claims in relation to the relevant application.

(4)Upon making a decision under the preceding paragraph, the DICJ must immediately report particulars in relation to the decision to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.

(5)Upon making a decision to purchase specified, difficult-to-collect claims under paragraph (3), the DICJ must conclude a contract for the purchase of the specified, difficult-to-collect claims with the relevant financial institution.

Article 102(1)If the Prime Minister finds that, if the measures specified in each of the following items are not taken with respect to the financial institution specified in each respective item, it may seriously hinder maintaining an orderly credit system in Japan or in a certain region where the relevant financial institution conducts its business, the minister may, following deliberation by a council for financial crises (hereinafter referred to as the "council" in this Chapter through Chapter VIII), confirm the necessity to take the relevant measures (hereinafter referred to as a "confirmation" in this Chapter):

(2)If the Prime Minister intends to give confirmation with respect to a labor bank or Rokinren Bank, the Minister must hear the opinion of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in advance, and if the Prime Minister intends to give confirmation with respect to the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd., the Prime Minister must hear the opinion of the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in advance.

(3)If the Prime Minister intends to give confirmation with respect to any of the financial institutions listed in the items of paragraph (1) which is specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance, if the financial institution subject to the confirmation has issued bonds (limited to bonds with a special clause of subordinated contents with regard to the payment of principal and interest, where the obligations in relation to the relevant bonds will be written down or will be acquired by the financial institution on condition that the confirmation will be given, and which are specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance as bonds that contribute to ensuring sound financial conditions in light of the standards on the appropriateness of the adequacy of equity capital and any other financial conditions specified based on the Banking Act and any other laws and regulations) or shares (limited to shares with preferred contents with regard to dividend of surplus and distribution of residual assets, which will be acquired by the financial institution on condition that the confirmation will be given, and which are specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance as shares that contribute to ensuring sound financial conditions in light of the standards on the appropriateness of the adequacy of equity capital and any other financial conditions specified based on the Banking Act and any other laws and regulations), or has concluded loans for consumption (limited to loans with a special clause of subordinated contents with regard to the payment of principal and interest, where the obligations in relation to the relevant loans for consumption will be written down or the claims in relation to the relevant loans for consumption will be acquired by the financial institution on condition that the confirmation will be given, and which are specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance as loans for consumption that contribute to ensuring sound financial conditions in light of the standards on the appropriateness of the adequacy of equity capital and any other financial conditions specified based on the Banking Act and any other laws and regulations), the minister is to decide on the treatment of the relevant bonds, the relevant shares, or the relevant loans for consumption in the equity capital of the financial institution.

(4)Confirmation in relation to the measures under item (iii) may not be given unless the Prime Minister finds that the measures under item (ii) cannot prevent the hindrance prescribed in paragraph (1).

(5)When giving confirmation in relation to the measures under item (i), the Prime Minister must specify a period of time within which an application under Article 105, paragraph (1) or (2) can be made by a financial institution subject to the relevant confirmation or bank holding company, etc. which has the relevant financial institution as its subsidiary company.

(6)Upon giving confirmation, the Prime Minister must announce that fact and, if the confirmation is in relation to the measures under item (i), the period of time specified under the preceding paragraph, to the financial institution subject to the relevant confirmation or bank holding company, etc. which has the relevant financial institution as its subsidiary company and the DICJ, and give public notice thereof in the Official Gazette.

(7)Upon making a decision pursuant to paragraph (3), the Prime Minister must make the details thereof public.

(8)Upon giving confirmation, the Prime Minister must report the details of the relevant confirmation to the Diet.

Article 103(1)If, between the time of confirmation in relation to the measures under item (i) and the decision under Article 105, paragraph (4), a financial institution subject to the relevant confirmation comes to fall under the financial institution specified in paragraph (1), item (ii) of the preceding Article, the Prime Minister must, following deliberation by the Council, rescind the relevant confirmation.

(2)The provisions of paragraphs (2), (6), and (8) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the rescission of the confirmation under the preceding paragraph.

Article 104(1)A financial institution subject to confirmation in relation to the measures under item (i) must, if the relevant financial institution and bank holding company, etc. which has the relevant financial institution as its subsidiary company do not make an application prescribed in paragraph (1) or (2) of the following Article, submit a plan to the Prime Minister within the period prescribed in Article 102, paragraph (5), setting forth measures to enhance the adequacy of equity capital by means other than the measures under item (i).

(2)If the Prime Minister finds that the plan submitted under the preceding paragraph by the financial institution prescribed in the same paragraph is appropriate, the minister must following deliberation by the council, rescind the confirmation in relation to the relevant financial institution.

(3)The provisions of Article 102, paragraphs (2), (6), and (8) apply mutatis mutandis to the rescission of confirmation under the preceding paragraph.

(4)If a financial institution subject to confirmation in relation to the measures under item (i) and bank holding company, etc. which has the relevant financial institution as its subsidiary company have not made an application prescribed in paragraph (1) or (2) of the following Article within the period prescribed in Article 102, paragraph (5), if the relevant financial institution does not submit the plan prescribed in paragraph (1) within the relevant period, the Prime Minister is to rescind the relevant confirmation.

(5)If the Prime Minister finds that the plan submitted by a financial institution under paragraph (1) is not appropriate, the minister is to rescind the relevant confirmation.

(6)If the Prime Minister intends to rescind the confirmation in relation to the measures under item (i) under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the Prime Minister must hear the opinion of the Minister of Finance in advance.

(7)The provisions of Article 102, paragraphs (2), (6), and (8) apply mutatis mutandis to the rescission of the confirmation in relation to the measures under item (i) under paragraph (4) or (5).

(8)If confirmation in relation to the measures under item (i) has been rescinded under paragraph (4) or (5), when a situation is likely to arise in which the financial institution subject to the relevant rescission is unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets, the Prime Minister may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 102, paragraph (1), give the confirmation in relation to the measures under item (ii) with respect to the relevant financial institution, following deliberation by the council.

(9)The provisions of Article 102, paragraphs (2), (3), and (6) through (8) apply mutatis mutandis to the confirmation in relation to the measures under item (ii) prescribed in the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "financial institution subject to the relevant confirmation or bank holding company, etc. which has the relevant financial institution as its subsidiary company" in Article 102, paragraph (6) will be deemed to be replaced with "financial institution subject to the relevant confirmation", and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 105(1)If confirmation in relation to the measures under item (i) has been given, when the DICJ has received an application in relation to the measures under item (i) (limited to the subscription for shares, etc. for the relevant financial institution; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) from the financial institution subject to the relevant confirmation within the period prescribed in Article 102, paragraph (5), the DICJ must request a decision from the Prime Minister (if the financial institution is a labor bank or Rokinren Bank, from the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if the financial institution is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd., from the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; the same applies in paragraphs (3) through (6), Article 108, and Article 110, paragraph (1)) in joint name with the relevant financial institution as to whether or not to implement the measures under item (i) in relation to the relevant application.

(2)If confirmation in relation to the measures under item (i) has been given, when the DICJ has received an application in relation to the measures under item (i) from the bank holding company, etc. which has as its subsidiary company the financial institution subject to the relevant confirmation (limited to the subscription for shares issued by the relevant bank holding company, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) within the period prescribed in Article 102, paragraph (5), the DICJ must request a decision from the Prime Minister in joint name with the relevant bank holding company, etc. as to whether or not to implement the measures under item (i) in relation to the relevant application.

(3)A financial institution that has made an application prescribed in paragraph (1) or a financial institution subject to the confirmation in relation to the measures under item (i) that is a subsidiary company of the bank holding company, etc. and has made an application prescribed in the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "subject subsidiary company" in this Chapter) must submit to the Prime Minister a management soundness improvement plan (meaning a plan to improve sound business management; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter) setting forth measures to streamline the management and to establish a responsible management system (including, if the bank holding company, etc. has made an application prescribed in the same paragraph, the management system of the relevant bank holding company, etc.) and other measures specified by Cabinet Order. In this case, the subject subsidiary company of the bank holding company, etc. that is to make an application prescribed in the same paragraph is to submit the plan in joint name with the relevant bank holding company, etc.

(4)The Prime Minister is to decide to take the measures under item (i) in relation to an application prescribed in paragraph (1) or (2) only if all of the following requirements are satisfied:

(5)The Prime Minister must obtain consent from the Minister of Finance when making a decision under the preceding paragraph; provided, however, that this does not apply if the relevant decision relates to the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd.

(6)Upon making a decision under paragraph (1) or (2), the Prime Minister must report the fact to the financial institution that has made the application prescribed in paragraph (1) or the bank holding company, etc. that has made the application prescribed in paragraph (2) and the DICJ.

(7)If a decision is made to not implement the measures under item (i) in relation to an application prescribed in paragraph (1) or (2), the Prime Minister is to immediately rescind the confirmation in relation to the measures under item (i) with respect to the financial institution that has made the application prescribed in paragraph (1) or the subject subsidiary company of the bank holding company, etc. that has made the application prescribed in paragraph (2).

(8)The provisions of Article 102, paragraphs (2), (6), and (8), and paragraphs (6) and (8) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the rescission of confirmation under the preceding paragraph in relation to the measures under item (i) and the provisions of paragraph (9) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to confirmation in relation to the measures under item (ii) under paragraph (8) of the preceding Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph.

Article 106(1)If an application prescribed in paragraph (1) or (2) of the preceding Article has been made (if an application prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article has been made, limited to applications in relation to subscription for shares), the Prime Minister may, when finding it necessary in making a decision under paragraph (4) of the preceding Article in relation to the relevant application, require that the relevant subscription for shares be conditioned upon a reduction in the amount of stated capital of a bank, etc., bank holding company, etc., the subject subsidiary company of the bank holding company, etc., or the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. that is subject to the relevant decision.

(2)The provisions of Article 89 apply mutatis mutandis to a reduction in the amount of stated capital if a decision is made under paragraph (4) of the preceding Article whereby the subscription for shares is conditioned upon a reduction in the amount of stated capital being made pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

(3)If a decision is made under paragraph (4) of the preceding Article whereby the subscription for shares is conditioned upon a reduction in the amount of stated capital made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the bank, etc. or bank holding company, etc. or the subject subsidiary company of the bank holding company, etc. or the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. that is subject to the relevant decision must, when it has obtained or failed to obtain a resolution of a shareholders meeting or class meeting with respect to the reduction in the amount of stated capital, immediately report the fact and submit the minutes of the shareholders meeting and other documents specified by Cabinet Order (including those prepared in the form of an electronic or magnetic record) to the Prime Minister, and must also notify the DICJ to that effect.

(4)In the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, if a resolution by a shareholders meeting or class meeting is not obtained for the reduction in the amount of stated capital that is prescribed as the condition under the same paragraph, the Prime Minister is to rescind the confirmation in relation to the measures under item (i) with respect to the bank, etc., subject subsidiary company, or the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. and is to also rescind the decision under paragraph (4) of the preceding Article with respect to the bank, etc., bank holding company, etc., or the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd.

(5)The provisions of Article 102, paragraphs (6) and (8) and Article 104, paragraphs (6) and (8) apply mutatis mutandis to the rescission of confirmation in relation to the measures under item (i) under the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 104, paragraph (9) (excluding the part in relation to Article 102, paragraph (2)) apply mutatis mutandis to the confirmation in relation to the measures under item (ii) under Article 104, paragraph (8) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (6) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the event that a decision under paragraph (4) of the preceding Article is rescinded pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

(6)For the purpose of applying the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (3) if a financial institution subject to a decision under paragraph (4) of the preceding Article is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd., the term "the Prime Minister" in these provisions will be deemed to be "the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry".

Article 107(1)When a decision is made under Article 105, paragraph (4), the DICJ is to carry out subscription for shares, etc. in accordance with the relevant decision.

(2)The DICJ must, when it has carried out subscription for shares, etc. under the preceding paragraph, promptly report the details thereof to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance (if the issuer of the shares, etc. is a labor bank or Rokinren Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if the issuer of the shares, etc. is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd., the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry).

(3)If a bank holding company, etc. has made an application prescribed in Article 105, paragraph (2), if the DICJ has carried out subscription for shares issued by the bank holding company, etc. in accordance with a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4), the relevant bank holding company, etc. must carry out subscription for shares, etc. (limited to the cases where the amount of the relevant subscription for shares, etc. is not less than the amount of the relevant subscription for shares) without delay with respect to the subject subsidiary company.

Article 107-2(1)If an application prescribed in Article 105, paragraph (1) or (2) is for subscription for shares or subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options; hereinafter the same applies in this Article), when the Prime Minister (if the issuer of shares or subordinated bonds is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd., the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry) has made a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4) in relation to the relevant application, if the total number of issued shares of the financial institution or bank holding company, etc. that has made the relevant application, the number of shares to be increased as a result of conversion pursuant to a request for conversion in relation to the relevant issued shares or conversion upon the occurrence of certain events, and the number of shares to be increased as a result of the delivery of shares following the exercise of share options which have already been issued, coupled with the number of shares in relation to the relevant subscription, the number of shares to be increased as a result of the issuance of shares pursuant to a request for conversion in relation to the relevant subscription, and the number of shares to be increased as a result of the issuance of shares following the exercise of share options attached to subordinated bonds in relation to the relevant subscription (hereinafter referred to as the "total number of shares after subscription" in this paragraph) exceeds the number four times the total number of issued shares, the relevant financial institution or bank holding company, etc. may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 113, paragraph (3) of the Companies Act, increase the total number of shares issued by the relevant financial institution or bank holding company, etc. to the number equal to four times the total number of shares after subscription, on condition that the subscription for shares or subordinated bonds is carried out in accordance with the decision under Article 105, paragraph (4).

(2)If a financial institution or bank holding company, etc. increases the total number of shares to be issued based on the provisions of the preceding paragraph, for the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 46, paragraph (2) of the Commercial Registration Act (Act No. 125 of 1963) concerning a written application for a registration of change due to the relevant increase, the term "the minutes" in Article 46, paragraph (2) of the same Act will be deemed to be "the minutes and documents evidencing the subscription for shares or subordinated bonds in accordance with a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4) of the Deposit Insurance Act (Act No. 34 of 1971)".

Article 107-3(1)For the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 115 of the Companies Act, it will be deemed that no shares with restricted voting rights (meaning the shares with restricted voting rights prescribed in Article 115 of the Act; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) have been issued in accordance with a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4) by a financial institution or bank holding company, etc. that has the relevant financial institution as its subject subsidiary company and is subject to the confirmation in relation to the measures under item (i).

(2)If shares with restricted voting rights are issued in accordance with a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4) by a financial institution or bank holding company, etc. referred to in the preceding paragraph, registration to that effect must be made in registering a change resulting from the issuance of the relevant shares with restricted voting rights.

(3)For the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 56 of the Commercial Registration Act in the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the term "the following documents" in the Article will be deemed to be "the following documents and documents evidencing the fact that the issuance of shares with restricted voting right is in accordance with a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4) of the Deposit Insurance Act (Act No. 34 of 1971)".

Article 107-4(1)For the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (2) of the Preferred Equity Investment Act, it will be deemed that no preferred equity investments have been issued in accordance with a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4) by a financial institution that is subject to the confirmation in relation to the measures under item (i).

(2)If preferred equity investments have been issued in accordance with a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4) by a financial institution referred to in the preceding paragraph, registration to that effect must be made pursuant to Cabinet Order provisions in registering a change resulting from the issuance of the relevant preferred equity investments.

Article 107-5(1)The provisions of Article 206-2 of the Companies Act do not apply to cases where the financial institution or bank holding company, etc. in relation to the confirmation for the measures under item (i) (limited to subscription for shares) conducts the allotment of shares for subscription prescribed in Article 199, paragraph (1) of the same Act targeting the DICJ, or where a contract set forth in Article 205, paragraph (1) of the same Act is executed with the DICJ.

(2)The provisions of Article 244-2 of the Companies Act do not apply to cases where the financial institution in relation to the confirmation for the measures under item (i) (limited to subscription for subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options)) undertaken by the DICJ conducts the allotment of share options for subscription targeting the DICJ, or where a contract set forth in Article 244, paragraph (1) of the same Act is executed with the DICJ.

Article 108(1)The Prime Minister is to, upon making a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4), make public the management soundness improvement plan submitted under Article 105, paragraph (3); provided, however, that this does not apply to matters for which disclosure is likely to harm an orderly financial system, divulge any secret of depositors, etc. or business customers of a financial institution that has submitted the management soundness improvement plan (including a bank holding company, etc. and its subsidiary company, etc. (meaning a subsidiary company, etc. that is a bank, etc. prescribed in Article 52-25 of the Banking Act (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 17 of the Long-Term Credit Bank Act)) that have submitted the relevant management soundness improvement plan in joint name; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), or bring undue disadvantage to the conduct of business by the relevant financial institution.

(2)Until the time when the DICJ makes a disposal or receives a redemption or repayment with respect to the whole of acquired shares, etc. or acquired loan claims (meaning loan claims acquired by the DICJ pursuant to the measures under item (i); hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter), the Prime Minister may request a financial institution subject to confirmation in relation to the relevant measures under item (i) (including the bank holding company, etc. that has submitted a management soundness improvement plan under Article 105, paragraph (3) in joint name with the relevant financial institution) to report the status of implementation of the management soundness improvement plan submitted under Article 105, paragraph (3) and make the report public.

(3)The term "acquired shares, etc." as used in the preceding paragraph means the following:

Article 108-2(1)A financial institution or bank holding company, etc. (including a company prescribed in item (i) of the following paragraph if the authorization set forth in this paragraph is given) with respect to which the DICJ has carried out the subscription for shares, etc. in accordance with a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4), which has issued acquired shares, etc. (meaning acquired shares, etc. prescribed in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter) actually held by the DICJ (hereinafter referred to as "issuing financial institution, etc." in this Article and the following Article) must obtain authorization from the Prime Minister in advance if the financial institution or bank holding company, etc. intends to effect a share exchange (limited to those through which the issuing financial institution, etc. becomes a wholly owned subsidiary company in share exchange) or share transfer (hereinafter referred to as "share exchange, etc." in this Article).

(2)The Prime Minister is to give the authorization set forth in the preceding paragraph only if all of the following requirements are satisfied:

(3)If the issuing financial institution, etc. has carried out a share exchange, etc. following the authorization set forth in paragraph (1), the issuing financial institution, etc., a financial institution that is a subsidiary company of the relevant issuing financial institution, etc. with respect to which the DICJ has carried out the subscription for shares, etc. in accordance with a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4), or the subject subsidiary company (including the bridge subsidiary company prescribed in paragraph (4) of the following Article) of the bank holding company, etc. with respect to which the DICJ has carried out the subscription for shares in accordance with a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4) must submit to the Prime Minister, in joint name with a company that has become, through the relevant share exchange, etc., a wholly owning parent company resulting from share exchange or wholly owning parent company incorporated in a share transfer of the relevant issuing financial institution, etc., a new management soundness improvement plan to replace the Management Strengthening Plan that has been implemented (meaning the plan submitted under Article 105, paragraph (3), this paragraph, or paragraph (3) of the following Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) of the following Article), stating, beyond the measures stated in the Management Strengthening Plan (excluding the part in relation to the management system of the bank holding company, etc. in joint name with whom the Management Strengthening Plan was submitted), measures to establish a responsible management system in a company that has become, through the share exchange, etc., a wholly owning parentcompany resulting from share exchange or wholly owning parent company incorporated in a share transfer of the relevant issuing financial institution, etc., and other measures specified by Cabinet Order.

(4)The provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the management soundness improvement plan submitted to the Prime Minister under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "financial institution ... (... that has submitted a Management Strengthening Plan under Article 105, paragraph (3)" in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article will be deemed to be replaced with "financial institution ... that has submitted a management soundness improvement plan under Article 108-2, paragraph (3) (... that has submitted the relevant Management Strengthening Plan."

Article 108-3(1)A financial institution (including a bridge financial institution prescribed in item (i) of the following paragraph if the authorization set forth in this paragraph is given) with respect to which the DICJ has carried out the subscription for shares, etc. in accordance with a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4), which is an issuer of acquired shares, etc. or obligor of acquired loan claims actually held by the DICJ (hereinafter referred to as "subject financial institution" in this Article) must, if it intends to undertake the succession of business affairs through a merger, company split, or transfer of business, etc. (hereinafter referred to as "corporate reorganization" in this Article), obtain authorization from the Prime Minister (if the subject financial institution is a labor bank or Rokinren Bank, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, if the financial institution is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd., the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; the same applies in the following paragraph) in advance.

(2)The Prime Minister is to give the authorization set forth in the preceding paragraph only if all of the following requirements are satisfied:

(3)If the subject financial institution has conducted the corporate reorganization following the authorization set forth in paragraph (1), when there is any bridge financial institution in relation to the relevant corporate reorganization, the relevant bridge financial institution must submit a management soundness improvement plan, setting forth measures to achieve the rationalization of management, measures to establish a responsible management system, and other measures specified by Cabinet Order, to the Prime Minister (if the relevant bridge financial institution is a labor bank or Rokinren Bank, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if the financial institution is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd., the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; the same applies in paragraph (8)).

(4)The provisions of the preceding three paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to the subject subsidiary company of the bank holding company, etc. with respect to which the DICJ has carried out the subscription for shares in accordance with a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4) or the financial institution (including the bridge financial institution) with respect to which the DICJ has carried out the subscription for shares, etc. in accordance with a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4) that has ceased to be a subject financial institution as a result of the share exchange or share transfer effected by the relevant financial institution (including a bridge subsidiary company (meaning another financial institution prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph; hereinafter the same applies in this Article; hereinafter referred to as "subject subsidiary company, etc." in this Article) that has been implementing a management soundness improvement plan (meaning a plan submitted under Article 105, paragraph (3), paragraph (3) of the preceding Article (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (8)), the preceding paragraph as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph, or paragraph (7))). In this case, the term "if it intends to undertake the succession of business affairs through a merger, company split" in paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "until the time that the DICJ has made a disposal or received a redemption or repayment with respect to all of the acquired shares, etc. or acquired loan claims in relation to the financial institution or bank holding company, etc. that has carried out the subscription for shares, etc. in accordance with a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4) in relation to the relevant management strengthening plan, if it intends to undertake the succession of business affairs through a merger, company split," the terms "A corporation who is to become an issuer of acquired shares, etc. or obligor of acquired loan claims held by the DICJ after the corporate reorganization is the subject financial institution or", "business in relation to the relevant management strengthening plan (meaning the plan submitted under Article 105, paragraph (3) or the following paragraph) that has been implemented by the relevant subject financial institution" and "including the bridge financial institution" in paragraph (2) will be deemed to be replaced with "A bank holding company, etc. that has submitted the relevant management strengthening plan in joint name with the relevant subject subsidiary company, etc.", "subject subsidiary company, etc. or the business in relation to the relevant management strengthening plan after the corporate reorganization", and "including a bridge subsidiary company", respectively, and the terms "bridge financial institution" and "setting forth measures to achieve the rationalization of management" in the preceding paragraph are to be deemed to be replaced with "bridge subsidiary company" and "in joint name with the bank holding company, etc. prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i), setting forth measures to achieve the rationalization of management" respectively.

(5)The issuing financial institution, etc. other than the subject financial institution (including another bank holding company, etc. prescribed in item (i) of the following paragraph if the authorization set forth in this paragraph is granted, or company prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i) of the preceding Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (8) if the authorization set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (8) is granted which is an issuer of acquired shares, etc. actually held by the DICJ (hereinafter referred to as "issuing bank holding company, etc. after corporate reorganization" in this Article); the same applies in the following paragraph) must, if it intends to conduct corporate reorganization, obtain authorization from the Prime Minister in advance.

(6)The Prime Minister is to give the authorization set forth in the preceding paragraph only if all of the following requirements are satisfied:

(7)If the issuing financial institution, etc. other than the subject financial institution or the issuing bank holding company, etc. after corporate reorganization has conducted corporate reorganization following the authorization set forth in paragraph (5), if there is another bank holding company, etc. prescribed in item (i) of the preceding paragraph, the relevant issuing financial institution, etc. or the subject subsidiary company, etc. in relation to the issuing bank holding company, etc. after corporate reorganization must submit to the Prime Minister, in joint name with that another bank holding company, etc., a new management soundness improvement plan to replace the management soundness improvement plan that has been implemented (meaning the management soundness improvement plan prescribed in paragraph (4)), stating, beyond the measures stated in the relevant management soundness improvement plan (excluding the part in relation to the management system of the bank holding company, etc. in joint name with whom the relevant management soundness improvement plan was submitted), measures to establish a responsible management system in that another bank holding company, etc., and other measures specified by Cabinet Order.

(8)The provisions of Article 108, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the management soundness improvement plans submitted to the Prime Minister under paragraph (3) (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (4)) or the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 108, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the financial institution (including the bank holding company, etc. in joint name with whom these management soundness improvement plan have been submitted) that has submitted these management soundness improvement plans , and the provisions of Article 108-2 apply mutatis mutandis to a bridge financial institution that is an issuer of acquired shares, etc. actually held by the DICJ or the issuing bank holding company, etc. after corporate reorganization. In this case, the terms "a financial institution that is a subsidiary company of the relevant Issuing financial institution, etc. with respect to which the DICJ has carried out the subscription for shares, etc. in accordance with a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4), or the subject subsidiary company (including the bridge subsidiary company prescribed in paragraph (4) of the following Article)" and "the plan submitted under Article 105, paragraph (3), this paragraph, or paragraph (3) of the following Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) of the following Article" in Article 108-2, paragraph (3) will be deemed to be replaced with "the subject subsidiary company, etc.", and "the plan submitted under Article 108-3, paragraph (3) (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 108-3, paragraph (4)), Article 108-3, paragraph (7), or Article 108-2, paragraph (3) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 108-3, paragraph (8)" respectively.

Article 108-4The provisions of Part II, Chapter 2, Section 4-2 of the Companies Act do not apply to special controlling shareholders of a financial institution (including the bridge financial institution, etc. prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i) of the preceding Article if the authorization has been given under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article) or the bank holding company, etc. (including the company prescribed in Article 108-2, paragraph (2), item (i) if the authorization has been given under paragraph (1) of the same Article and the issuing bank holding company, etc. after corporate reorganization, etc. prescribed in paragraph (5) of the preceding Article) for which the DICJ has conducted the subscription for shares, etc. based on a decision under Article 105, paragraph (4) and which has issued shares that are acquired shares, etc. actually held by the DICJ or subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options).

Article 109(1)The DICJ must, if it intends to transfer or dispose of acquired shares, etc. or acquired loan claims, obtain approval from the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance (if an issuer of the relevant acquired shares, etc. or obligor of acquired loan claims is a labor bank or Rokinren Bank, from the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if an issuer of the relevant acquired shares, etc. or obligor of acquired loan claims is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd., from the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; the same applies in the following paragraph).

(2)Upon making a disposal as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the DICJ must promptly report the details thereof to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.

Article 110(1)When confirmation in relation to the measures under item (ii) is given under Article 102, paragraph (1) or Article 104, paragraph (8) (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 105, paragraph (8) and Article 106, paragraph (5)), the Prime Minister must, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 74, paragraph (1) and (2), immediately issue an order to manage with respect to the financial institution subject to the relevant confirmation.

(2)For the purpose of applying this Act if an order to manage is issued under the preceding paragraph, the financial institution (excluding the failed financial institution) subject to the relevant order to manage will be deemed to be the failed financial institution.

(3)The provisions of Article 64, paragraph (2) do not apply to cases where a resolution by the board prescribed in Article 64, paragraph (1) is to be deliberated with respect to the financial assistance for a merger, etc. in which a financial institution that is subject to an order to manage under paragraph (1) is deemed to be the failed financial institution. In this case, the board may, when it finds, in light of the financial conditions of the relevant financial institution, that the financial assistance does not exceed the scope necessary to carry out the merger, etc., adopt a resolution to provide financial assistance.

(4)A financial institution that is subject to an order to manage under paragraph (1) will be deemed to be a financial institution subject to an order to manage under Article 74, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) in applying the provisions of Article 69-3, paragraph (1) and Article 127. In this case, the term "repayment of the settlement obligations (limited to those carried out with respect to the covered deposits for settlement or specified settlement obligations corresponding to the amount of insurance proceeds calculated under Article 54-2, paragraph (1) and Article 54, paragraph (3) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-2, paragraph (2))" in Article 69-3, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "repayment of the settlement obligations", the term "up to the total amount of insurance proceeds in relation to the relevant settlement obligations calculated under Article 54-2, paragraph (1) and Article 54, paragraph (3) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-2, paragraph (2)" in Article 69-3, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "to the extent necessary", the term "refunding the covered deposits, etc. (limited to the repayment for the covered deposits, etc. corresponding to the amount of insurance proceeds calculated under the insurance claim calculation provisions)" in Article 127, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "refunding the covered deposits, etc.", and the term "In this case, the term 'in relation to the relevant settlement obligations calculated under Article 54-2, paragraph (1) and Article 54, paragraph (3) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-2, paragraph (2)" in Article 69-3, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "in relation to the relevant covered deposits, etc. calculated under the insurance claim calculation provisions'" in Article 127, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be deleted.

Article 111(1)The Prime Minister must, at the time of granting the confirmation in relation to the measures under item (iii), decide that the DICJ will acquire shares of the bank, etc. subject to the confirmation (referred to as "decision to commence special crisis management" in the following paragraph).

(2)Upon making the decision to commence special crisis management, the Prime Minister must notify the DICJ and the bank, etc. subject to the relevant decision on commencement of special crisis management (hereinafter referred to as the "bank under special crisis management") to that effect and give public notice thereof in the Official Gazette.

Article 112(1)If public notice is given under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, the shares of the bank under special crisis management will be acquired by the DICJ at the time of the relevant public notice (hereinafter referred to as the "time of public notice" in this Chapter).

(2)Share certificates for the shares acquired by the DICJ under the preceding paragraph will become invalid at the time of public notice.

(3)The provisions of the main clause of Article 128, paragraph (1) and Article 130, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act do not apply to the acquisition of shares under paragraph (1).

(4)Any pledge and other security interest in the shares acquired by the DICJ under paragraph (1) will be extinguished at the time of public notice.

(5)If the articles of incorporation of the bank under special crisis management has provisions prescribed in Article 108, paragraph (2) of the Companies Act (limited to the part in relation to item (ix)), the relevant provisions will be deemed have been rescinded at the time of public notice.

Article 113Upon giving public notice under Article 111, paragraph (2), the Prime Minister is to make public the conditions of assets and liabilities of the bank under special crisis management as of the time of public notice pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance.

Article 114(1)Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 329, paragraph (1) and Article 402, paragraph (2) of the Companies Act, the DICJ may, based on the designation of the Prime Minister, appoint a company director, executive officer, accounting advisor, corporate auditor and accounting auditor of the bank under special crisis management. In this case, documents evidencing the designation and appointment must be attached to a written application for a registration of a change of company director (in the case of a company with an audit and supervisory committee, a company director who is an audit and supervisory committee member or another company director; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph and the following paragraph), executive officer, accounting advisor, corporate auditor or accounting auditor of the bank under special crisis management.

(2)Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 339, paragraph (1) and Article 403, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act, the DICJ may, with approval from the Prime Minister, dismiss a company director, executive officer, accounting advisor, corporate auditor or accounting auditor of the bank under special crisis management.

(3)If an appointment under paragraph (1) or dismissal under the preceding paragraph is made, it will be deemed that there has been a resolution by shareholders meeting prescribed in Article 329, paragraph (1) or Article 339, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act or resolution by the board of directors prescribed in Article 402, paragraph (2) or Article 403, paragraph (1) of the same Act.

Article 115The Prime Minister may, when finding it necessary, request the bank under special crisis management, a financial institution agent with the relevant bank under special crisis management as its principal financial institution, and an electronic payment handling service provider, etc. with the relevant bank under special crisis management as its entrusting financial institution to submit reports or materials concerning the status of business and assets, etc. or order the preparation and submission of a management plan and other necessary measures.

Article 116(1)The bank under special crisis management must, in order to have its company director, executive officer, accounting advisor, corporate auditor or accounting auditor or a person who previously held any of these positions perform civil responsibilities based on a breach of obligations in the course of duties, file an action or take other necessary measures.

(2)If a company director, executive officer, accounting advisor, corporate auditor and accounting auditor of the bank under special crisis management, in the course of carrying out their duty, considers that an offense has been committed, they must take necessary measures toward filing an accusation.

Article 117The provisions of Article 89 apply mutatis mutandis to cases where the bank under special crisis management has adopted a resolution for reduction in the amount of stated capital.

Article 118(1)An assuming financial institution or assuming bank holding company, etc. undertaking a merger, etc. (limited to those specified in Article 59, paragraph (2), items (i), (ii) and (iv); the same applies in paragraph (5)) in which the bank under special crisis management is the failed financial institution may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (1), apply for the DICJ, in joint name with the relevant bank under special crisis management, to provide financial assistance (limited to those specified in Article 59, paragraph (1), item (i); the same applies in paragraphs (3) through (5)) to the relevant bank under special crisis management.

(2)The provisions of Article 59, paragraphs (6) and (7) and Article 61, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to an application under the preceding paragraph and the provisions of Article 61, paragraphs (2), (3), and (6) through (8) apply mutatis mutandis to the confirmation prescribed in Article 61, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph. In this case, the term "failed financial institution" in Article 61, paragraphs (1) through (3) and (8) will be deemed to be replaced with "bank under special crisis management", and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

(3)Even in cases where no application is made under Article 61, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister may, when finding that the bank under special crisis management satisfies the requirements specified in Article 61, paragraph (3), item (iii) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph, provide mediation in writing with regard to a merger, etc. (limited to those specified in Article 59, paragraph (2), items (i) and (iv) and those that contribute to the protection of the depositors, etc. and other creditors and for which the financial assistance by the DICJ is indispensable) between the relevant bank under special crisis management and another financial institution or the bank under special crisis management and bank holding company, etc.

(4)The provisions of Article 62, paragraphs (2) and (4) through (6) apply mutatis mutandis to the mediation prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 64 (excluding paragraphs (2) and (5)) apply mutatis mutandis to the application under paragraph (1), the provisions of Article 65 and Article 66 apply mutatis mutandis to the financial institution or bank holding company, etc. that has received the confirmation prescribed in Article 61, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) or that has received the mediation prescribed in the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of Article 68 apply mutatis mutandis to the financial assistance prescribed in paragraph (1). In this case, the term "Article 59, paragraph (1) or Article 59-2, paragraph (1)" in Article 62, paragraph (2) will be deemed to be replaced with "Article 118, paragraph (1)," the term "paragraph (1)" in Article 62, paragraphs (4) through (6) will be deemed to be replaced with "Article 118, paragraph (3)", the term "paragraphs (4) through (7)" in Article 62, paragraph (4) will be deemed to be replaced with "paragraphs (6) and (7)", and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

(5)If a resolution by the board prescribed in Article 64, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph is to be deliberated with respect to the financial assistance prescribed in paragraph (1), the board may, when it finds that, in light of the financial conditions of the bank under special crisis management, the financial assistance does not exceed the scope necessary to carry out the merger, etc., adopt a resolution to provide financial assistance.

Article 119The provisions of Article 110, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the financial assistance in relation to an application under Article 59, paragraph (1) for a merger, etc. in which the bank under special crisis management is the failed financial institution.

Article 120(1)The Prime Minister is to conclude the measures under item (iii) as promptly as possible by causing the DICJ or bank under special crisis management to take the following measures:

(2)The bank under special crisis management must, if it intends to take the measures specified in items (i) through (iii), (v), and (vi) of the preceding paragraph, report to that effect to the Prime Minister and must also notify the DICJ thereof.

(3)Upon receiving notice under the preceding paragraph, the DICJ must immediately make a report to that effect to the Minister of Finance.

(4)Upon taking the measures specified in paragraph (1), item (iv), the DICJ must promptly report to that effect to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.

(5)The "subsidiary company of the bank under special crisis management" set forth in paragraph (1), items (v) and (vi) means a company of which voting rights exceeding fifty hundredths of the voting rights held by all of its shareholders are held by the bank under special crisis management.

Article 120-2The provisions of Part II, Chapter 2, Section 4-2 of the Companies Act do not apply to special controlling shareholders of a bank under special crisis management; provided, however, that this does not apply when the DICJ has disposed of all shares of the bank under special crisis management.

Article 121(1)If financial assistance is provided pursuant to a resolution under Article 110, paragraph (3) (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 119) or Article 118, paragraph (5), the DICJ is to transfer from an account (hereinafter referred to as "crisis management account") related to operations specified in Article 40-2, item (ii) (hereinafter referred to as "crisis management operations") to a general account the amount remaining after deducting expected costs for the payment of insurance proceeds with respect to an insured event of the financial institution in relation to the relevant financial assistance from the expected costs of the relevant financial assistance.

(2)Any transfer from the crisis management account to the general account under the preceding paragraph will be deemed to be crisis management operations.

Article 122(1)If public notice is given under paragraph (4) of the following Article (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 124, paragraph (3)), a financial institution must, during the period specified in the relevant public notice, pay contributions to the DICJ to cover the costs incurred in carrying out the crisis management operations (excluding those in relation to the financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (1) or the specified bridge financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-34, paragraph (3), item (v)).

(2)If public notice is given under the preceding paragraph, a financial institution is to submit documents specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance and pay contributions to the DICJ by the last day of each business year included in the period specified in the relevant public notice.

(3)The amount of contributions prescribed in paragraph (1) will be calculated for each financial institution by dividing by twelve the total amount of its liabilities outstanding on the last day of the business year immediately preceding the business year that includes the due date for payment of the relevant contributions (excluding those specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance), multiplying the resulting amount by the number of months in the business year that includes the due date for payment of the relevant contributions, and multiplying the resulting amount by the contribution rate specified under paragraph (2) of the following Article.

(4)The provisions of Article 50, paragraph (2) and Article 52 apply mutatis mutandis to the contributions prescribed in paragraph (1). In this case, the term " confirmation of eligibility, etc. prescribed in Article 65" in Article 50, paragraph (2), item (ii) will be deemed to be replaced with "confirmation of eligibility, etc. prescribed in Article 65 or specified confirmation of eligibility, etc. prescribed in Article 126-31", the term "the failed financial institution in relation to the confirmation of eligibility, etc." in the same item will be deemed to be replaced with "the failed financial institution in relation to the confirmation of eligibility, etc. or the specified failed financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (1) in relation to the specified confirmation of eligibility, etc. which is any of the persons listed in the items of Article 2, paragraph (1)", the term "an order to manage prescribed in Article 74, paragraph (1)" in item (iii) of the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "an order to manage prescribed in Article 74, paragraph (1) or an order for specified management prescribed in Article 126-5, paragraph (1)", and the term "the financial institution under management in relation to the order to manage" in the same item will be deemed to be replaced with "the financial institution under management in relation to the order to manage or the financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2) in relation to the which is any of the persons listed in the items of Article 2, paragraph (1)", and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 123(1)Within three months of the end of each business year, the DICJ must report the following to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance with regard to income and expenditure in the crisis management account during the relevant business year:

(2)If a report prescribed in the preceding paragraph is received, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance must, when they find it necessary, prescribe a contribution rate and payment period for contributions to be paid by a financial institution under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as "contributions" except in Article 126-39, paragraph (1)) or specified contributions to be paid by a financial institution, etc. under Article 126-39, paragraph (1) in each business year following the business year that includes the time of receipt of the relevant report (hereinafter referred to as the "time of report" in this paragraph); provided, however, that in any business year preceding the business year in which the time of report falls, when a contribution rate and payment period for the contributions or specified contributions in each business year after the business year in which the time of report falls are prescribed, the contribution rate and payment period for the contributions or specified contributions in each business year after the business year in which the relevant time of report falls will be prescribed by changing the contribution rate and payment period.

(3)The contribution rate and payment period must be established by taking the following matters into consideration and in a manner that covers loss in the crisis management account with the contributions or specified contributions and does not subject any specific financial institution or financial institution, etc. to discriminatory treatment:

(4)Upon prescribing a contribution rate and payment period under paragraph (2), the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance must give public notice thereof in the Official Gazette.

(5)The Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance may, when they find it necessary, request the DICJ to state its opinion or submit reports or materials in order to prescribe the contribution rate and payment period under paragraph (2).

Article 124(1)When it becomes evident that there will be an excess or deficiency in the contributions or specified contributions due to fluctuations in interest on the borrowings of the DICJ, government subsidies prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article, or other causes (excluding those in relation to the particulars specified in each item of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article), the DICJ must report to that effect to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.

(2)The Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance may change a contribution rate and payment period prescribed under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article to the extent necessary to make adjustments for any excess or deficiency in the contributions or specified contributions in relation to the report prescribed in the preceding paragraph.

(3)The provisions of paragraphs (4) and (5) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to cases where the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance change a contribution rate and payment period under the preceding paragraph.

Article 125(1)The government may provide subsidies to the DICJ for part of the costs required for the crisis management operations within the limit specified in a budget, only when it is found that, if the costs of the operations are to be funded solely with the contributions or specified contributions, the financial conditions of a financial institution or financial institution, etc. would deteriorate significantly and it may cause an extremely serious hindrance to maintaining an orderly credit system in Japan or cause severe disruption in the financial market or any other financial system in Japan.

(2)In any business year in which no contributions or specified contributions are paid (limited to the business year following the business year that includes the day on which a government subsidy is received under the preceding paragraph), if there is any amount calculated as profit in the crisis management account resulting from the settlement of profits and losses pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance, the DICJ must pay the relevant amount to the national treasury after deducting the amount already paid to the national treasury under this paragraph from the total amount of government subsidies already received under the preceding paragraph.

(3)Procedures for payment and other necessary matters concerning the amount prescribed in the preceding paragraph will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 126(1)The DICJ may, when it finds it necessary for carrying out the crisis management operations, borrow funds (including refinancing) from the Bank of Japan, a financial institution, or any other person or issue the DICJ bonds (including issuance for the purpose of refinancing the DICJ bonds) up to the amount specified by Cabinet Order with authorization from the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.

(2)The provisions of Article 42, paragraph (4) and Article 42-2 apply mutatis mutandis to cases where the DICJ borrows funds or issues the DICJ bonds under the preceding paragraph.

(3)The DICJ bonds to be issued under paragraph (1) will be deemed to be the DICJ bonds issued under Article 42, paragraph (1) in applying the provisions of Article 42, paragraphs (5) through (9).

Article 126-2(1)If the Prime Minister finds that, if the measures specified in each of the following items are not taken with respect to the financial institutions, etc. specified in each respective item, it may cause severe disruption in Japan's financial market and any other financial systems, they may, following deliberation by the council, confirm the necessity to take the relevant measures (hereinafter referred to as "specified confirmation" in this Chapter and the following Chapter):

(2)The term "financial institution, etc." as used in this Chapter through Chapter IX means the following:

(3)If the Prime Minister intends to give specified confirmation with respect to a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., they must hear the opinion of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in advance, and when the Prime Minister intends to give specified confirmation with respect to the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, they must hear the opinion of the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in advance.

(4)If the Prime Minister intends to give the specified confirmation with respect to any of the financial institutions, etc. listed in the items of paragraph (1) which is specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance, if the financial institution, etc. subject to the specified confirmation has issued bonds (limited to bonds with a special clause of subordinated contents with regard to the payment of principal and interest, where the obligations in relation to the relevant bonds will be written down or will be acquired by the financial institution, etc. on condition that the specified confirmation will be given, and which are specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance as bonds that contribute to ensuring sound financial conditions in light of the standards on the appropriateness of the adequacy of equity capital and any other financial conditions specified based on the Banking Act and any other laws and regulations) or shares (limited to shares with preferred contents with regard to dividend of surplus and distribution of residual assets, which will be acquired by the financial institution, etc. on condition that the specified confirmation will be given, and which are specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance as shares that contribute to ensuring sound financial conditions in light of the standards on the appropriateness of the adequacy of equity capital and any other financial conditions specified based on the Banking Act and any other laws and regulations), or has concluded loans for consumption (limited to loans with a special clause of subordinated contents with regard to the payment of principal and interest, where the obligations in relation to the relevant loans for consumption will be written down or the claims in relation to the relevant loans for consumption will be acquired by the financial institution, etc. on condition that the specified confirmation will be given, and which are specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance as loans for consumption that contribute to ensuring sound financial conditions in light of the standards on the appropriateness of the adequacy of equity capital and any other financial conditions specified based on the Banking Act and any other laws and regulations), the minister is to decide on the treatment of the relevant bonds, the relevant shares, or the relevant loans for consumption in the equity capital of the financial institution, etc. or in any equivalents thereto.

(5)If the Prime Minister has given the specified confirmation in relation to the specified measures under item (i), if they find it necessary to enhance the adequacy of equity capital or otherwise improve the financial conditions of the financial institution, etc. in relation to the specified confirmation, they must specify a period of time within which an application under Article 126-22, paragraph (1) or (3) may be made by the relevant financial institution, etc. or the financial institution, etc. which has the relevant financial institution, etc. as its subsidiary, etc. of a bank, subsidiary, etc. of a long term credit bank, subsidiary, etc. of a bank holding company, subsidiary, etc. of a long term credit bank holding company, subsidiary, etc. of a Shinkin bank, etc., subsidiary, etc. of a credit cooperative, etc., subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, subsidiary, etc. of an insurance company, subsidiary, etc. of an insurance holding company, subsidiary specified corporation of financial instruments business opetator, or subsidiary company, etc. of a designated parent company (hereinafter referred to as a "subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc.").

(6)Specified confirmation in relation to the specified measures under item (ii) with respect to a financial institution will be deemed to be a category-one insured event in applying the provisions of Chapter III (excluding Section 4) and Chapter IV (including penal provisions in relation to these provisions); with regard to the business and obligations in relation to deposits, etc. of the financial institution subject to the specified confirmation that cannot be succeeded to, transferred, or assumed through the specified merger, etc. (meaning the specified merger, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (2); the same applies in Article 126-5, paragraph (1), item (ii) and Article 126-16) in relation to the specified confirmation of eligibility, etc. prescribed in Article 126-31, the financial institution in relation to the specified confirmation (excluding a failed financial Institution) will be deemed to be a failed financial institution, and a company that has obtained the authorization under Article 52-17, paragraph (1) of the Banking Act to become a holding company which has as its subsidiary company the bank prescribed in the same paragraph through the acquisition of shares of a bank that falls under the financial institution or a company that has obtained the authorization under Article 16-2-4, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Credit Bank Act to become a holding company which has the long-term credit bank prescribed in the same paragraph as its subsidiary company through the acquisition of shares of the long-term credit bank that falls under the financial institution will be deemed to be a bank holding company, etc. in applying the provisions of Chapter III, Section 4, Chapter III-2 (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 127, paragraph (1), Article 127-3, and Article 128) and Article 131 through Article 132-2 (including penal provisions in relation to these provisions); assumption of obligations in relation to the deposits, etc. of the financial institution by another financial institution when the obligations include obligations in relation to the deposits, etc. corresponding to amounts of insurance claims calculated under the insurance claim calculation provision (excluding those associated with a transfer of business, etc.) will be deemed to be transfer of insured deposits in applying the provisions of Article 56, Chapter III, Section 4, and Article 131 (including penal provisions in relation to these provisions); and a financial institution subject to the specified certification will be deemed to be a financial institution under management, a specified bridge bank will be deemed to be a bridge bank, the DICJ will be deemed to be a financial administrator, and specified confirmation for a financial institution subject to the specified certification will be deemed to be an order to manage with respect to a financial institution under management in applying the provisions of Chapter VI, Article 133, and Article 135 (including penal provisions in relation to these provisions). In this case, the term "notice is received under Article 55, paragraph (1) or (2)" in Article 56, paragraph (1), item (i) and paragraph (3), item (i) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "notice to the DICJ (limited to notice made if the specified confirmation prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (1) in relation to the specified measures under item (ii) prescribed in item (ii) of the same paragraph has been given) is received under paragraph (7) of the same Article".

(7)Upon giving the specified confirmation, the Prime Minister must announce the fact and, if the specified confirmation is in relation to the specified measures under item (i), the period of time specified under paragraph (5) to the financial institution, etc. subject to the relevant specified confirmation or the financial institution, etc. which has the relevant financial institutions, etc. as a subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc., and the DICJ, and give public notice thereof in the Official Gazette.

(8)Upon making a decision pursuant to paragraph (4), the Prime Minister must make the details thereof public.

(9)Upon giving the specified confirmation, the Prime Minister must report the details of the relevant specified confirmation to the Diet.

(10)An insurance company or foreign insurance company, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (ii) will be deemed to be the failed insurance company prescribed in Article 260, paragraph (2) of the Insurance Business Act or the specified insurance company prescribed in Article 270-6-6, paragraph (1) of the same Act in applying the provisions of Part II, Chapter X and Article 311-3, paragraph (1) (including penal provisions in relation to these provisions) of the same Act.

(11)Necessary matters for application of the provisions of paragraph (1) to a foreign bank branch, foreign insurance company, etc., or any other person specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance will be specified Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance.

(12)Necessary matters for application of the provisions of paragraphs (6) and (10) will be specified by Cabinet Order.

(13)A person subject to specified confirmation will be deemed to be a financial institution, etc. with regard to application of the provisions of this Act even in cases where the license from the Prime Minister set forth in Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Banking Act for the relevant person has been rescinded, where the relevant license has lost its effect, or where any event specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance has occurred.

Article 126-3(1)If specified confirmation has been given, the Prime Minister (if the financial institution, etc. subject to the monitoring under this paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "special monitoring") is a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if it is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; the same applies in paragraph (3), paragraph (4) (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 126-11, paragraph (2)), and paragraph (5), paragraph (1) of the same Article, Article 126-12, paragraph (1), and Article 126-15) is to immediately designate the financial institution, etc. subject to the relevant specified confirmation as the person whose execution of business, and management and disposal of assets will be placed under the monitoring of the DICJ.

(2)When the designation under the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "designation of special monitoring") has been made, the DICJ may give necessary advice, instructions, or recommendations (hereinafter referred to as "advice, etc." in this paragraph) for ensuring the implementation of the plan prepared pursuant to paragraph (5) and any other necessary advice, etc. to the financial institution, etc. subject to the relevant designation of special monitoring (hereinafter referred to as the "financial institution, etc. under special monitoring") with regard to the execution of its business, and management and disposal of its assets.

(3)When the Prime Minister finds it necessary for avoiding the risk of severe disruption being caused to the financial system in Japan, they may order necessary measures to the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring with regard to execution of its business, and management and disposal of its assets while specifying the time limit by which the measures should be taken.

(4)Upon making designation of special monitoring, the Prime Minister must notify the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring and the DICJ to that effect and give public notice thereof in the Official Gazette.

(5)The Prime Minister may, when finding it necessary, request a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring to submit reports or materials with regard to the status of business and assets, etc. of the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring or order a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring to prepare a plan for its management and submit it to the Prime Minister and the DICJ.

Article 126-4(1)If designation of special monitoring has been made, the DICJ may, when it finds necessary, entrust the whole or part of implementation of monitoring in relation to the relevant designation of special monitoring to a third party.

(2)With regard to entrustment under the preceding paragraph, the approval of the Prime Minister (if the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring is a labor bank, a federation of labor banks, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if it is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; the same applies in the following paragraph) will be obtained.

(3)A special monitoring agent (meaning the third party to whom entrustment was made pursuant to paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter) may receive advance payments of costs as well as remuneration determined by the Prime Minister.

Article 126-5(1)If the Prime Minister (if the financial institution, etc. in relation to the order for specified management prescribed in this paragraph is a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if it is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; the same applies in paragraph (3) (including cases where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 126-7, paragraph (2)), paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) of the following Article, Article 126-7, paragraph (1), Article 126-8, and Article 79, paragraphs (1) (including cases where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) of the same Article) and Article 84, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 126-9, and Article 126-10) finds that any of the following requirements is satisfied in a case where specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (ii) has been given, they may issue an order that the business and assets of the financial institution, etc. subject to the specified confirmation be placed under management of the DICJ (hereinafter referred to as an "order for specified management"). In this case, the provisions of Article 74, paragraph (1), paragraph (2), and paragraph (5) do not apply:

(2)If an order for specified management has been issued, the right to represent the financial institution, etc. subject to the order for specified management, execute its business, and manage and dispose of its assets will be vested exclusively in the DICJ. The same applies to the rights of a company director and executive officer (if the financial institution, etc. subject to the order for specified management is a Shinkin bank, etc., a director) prescribed in Article 828, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Companies Act (including cases where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 28 of the Shinkin Bank Act, Article 52-2 (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 58, paragraph (7) of the same Act) and Article 61-7 of the same Act, Article 32 of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Cooperatives Act, Article 57 (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 57-3, paragraph (6) of the same Act) and Article 67 of the same Act, Article 28 of the Labor Bank Act, Article 57-2 (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 62, paragraph (7) of the same Act) and Article 65 of the same Act, and Article 30-15, Article 57, paragraph (6), Article 60-2, paragraph (5), and Article 171 of the Insurance Business Act), Article 831 of the Companies Act (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 24, paragraph (10) and Article 48-8 of the Shinkin Bank Act, Article 27, paragraph (8), Article 54, Article 82, paragraph (4) and Article 82-10, paragraph (4) of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Cooperatives Act, Article 24, paragraph (11) and Article 54 of the Labor Bank Act, and Article 30-8, paragraph (6), Article 41, paragraph (2), and Article 49, paragraph (2) of the Insurance Business Act), and Article 84-2, paragraph (2) and Article 96-16, paragraph (2) of the Insurance Business Act.

(3)Upon issuing an order for specified management, the Prime Minister must notify the DICJ to that effect and give public notice thereof in the Official Gazette.

(4)The provisions of Article 80 and Article 81, paragraph (1) of the Corporate Reorganization Act apply mutatis mutandis to the DICJ if an order for specified management has been issued, and the provisions of Article 78 of the Act on General Incorporated Associations and General Incorporated Foundations apply mutatis mutandis to a financial institution, etc. subject to the order for specified management. In this case, the term "court" in Article 81, paragraph (1) of the Corporate Reorganization Act will be deemed to be replaced with "Prime Minister (if the financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2) of the deposit insurance Act subject to the order for specified management prescribed in Article 126-5, paragraph (1) of the same Act is a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or the subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the same Act, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if it is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or the subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank prescribed in the same item, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry)" and the term "its representative director or other representatives" in Article 78 of the Act on General Incorporated Associations and General Incorporated Foundations will be deemed to be replaced with "the deposit insurance corporation of Japan if the order for specified management prescribed in Article 126-5, paragraph (1) of the Deposit Insurance Act has been issued".

(5)A financial institution subject to an order for specified management will be deemed to be a financial institution subject to an order to manage under Article 74, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) in applying the provisions of Article 69-3, paragraph (1) (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 127, paragraph (1) and Article 128), and an insurance company or foreign insurance company, etc. subject to an order for specified management will be deemed to be the managed company prescribed in Article 242, paragraph (1) of the Insurance Business Act, and the DICJ if an order for specified management has been issued will be deemed to be an insurance administrator in applying the provisions of Article 247, Article 250, paragraph (1), Article 254, paragraph (1), and Article 255-2, paragraph (1) (including penal provisions in relation to these provisions) of the same Act.

(6)If an order for specified management has been issued for a financial institution, etc., special monitoring in relation to the relevant financial institution, etc. will be suspended until the order for specified management is concluded.

Article 126-6(1)If an order for specified management has been issued, the DICJ may appoint an agent (hereinafter referred to as a "DICJ representative") who will conduct the whole or part of the business in relation to the order for specified management.

(2)With regard to the appointment of a DICJ representative set forth in the preceding paragraph, the approval of the Prime Minister must be obtained.

(3)A DICJ representative may receive advance payment of costs and receive the consideration specified by the Prime Minister.

Article 126-7(1)The Prime Minister must rescind the order for specified management, when finding that there is no longer any need for the relevant order for specified management.

(2)The provisions of Article 126-5, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the case set forth in the preceding paragraph.

Article 126-8If an order for specified management has been issued, the Prime Minister may, when finding it necessary, request the DICJ to submit reports or materials with regard to the status of business and assets, etc. of the financial institution, etc. subject to the order for specified management or order a financial institution, etc. subject to the order for specified management to prepare and submit a plan for its management or to take other necessary measures.

Article 126-9The provisions of Article 79 apply mutatis mutandis to a financial institution, etc. subject to the order for specified management, the provisions of Article 82 apply mutatis mutandis to a DICJ representative, and the provisions of Articles 83 and 84 apply mutatis mutandis to the DICJ if an order for specified management has been issued. In this case, the term "issued an order to manage or rescinded an order to manage" in Article 79, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "issued an order for specified management (meaning the order for specified management prescribed in Article 126-5, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter) or rescinded an order for specified management," the term "office" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "office (if the head office or principal office is in a foreign state, the principal business office or office in Japan)," the term "a financial administrator" in paragraph (2) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "the DICJ," the term "director, accounting advisor, corporate auditor or accounting auditor of a financial institution under management (if the financial institution under management is a company with an audit and supervisory committee, a director, accounting advisor and accounting auditor, if the financial institution under management is a company with a nominating committee, etc., a director, executive officer, accounting advisor or accounting auditor, and if the financial institution under management is a Shinkin bank, etc., a director, inspector or accounting auditor)" in Article 83, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "director, company director, executive officer, member who conducts business, representative in Japan, accounting advisor, corporate auditor, or a person equivalent to any of these, or accounting auditor of the financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2) subject to an order for specified management", and the term "financial institution under management" in Article 84, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2) subject to an order for specified management", and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 126-10The DICJ is to conclude the management of a financial institution, etc. subject to an order for specified management by transferring its business or taking any other necessary measures for avoiding the risk of severe disruption being caused to the financial system in Japan and other related measures within one year from the date of the order for specified management; provided, however, that in cases where it is impossible to conclude the management within the relevant period due to unavoidable circumstances, the relevant period may be extended for a period not exceeding one year with the approval of the Prime Minister.

Article 126-11(1)The Prime Minister must rescind the designation of special monitoring, when finding that there is no longer any need for the relevant designation of special monitoring.

(2)The provisions of Article 126-3, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph.

Article 126-12(1)The DICJ is to conclude special monitoring of a financial institution, etc. in relation to designation of special monitoring by transferring its business or taking any other necessary measures for avoiding the risk of severe disruption being caused to the financial system in Japan and other related measures within one year from the date of the designation of special monitoring; provided, however, that in cases where it is impossible to conclude the special monitoring within the relevant period due to unavoidable circumstances, the relevant period may be extended for a period not exceeding one year with the approval of the Prime Minister.

(2)Upon concluding special monitoring pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the DICJ must notify the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring to that effect and give public notice thereof.

Article 126-13(1)If a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring that is a stock company is unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets or is likely to be unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets, or has suspended payment of obligations or is likely to suspend payment of obligations, the relevant financial institution, etc. under special monitoring may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 111, paragraph (2), Article 171, paragraph (1), Article 199, paragraph (2), Article 204, paragraph (2), Article 205, paragraph (2), Article 447, paragraph (1), Article 466, Article 467, paragraph (1), items (i) through (ii)-2, Article 783, paragraph (1), and Article 804, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act and Article 136 of the Insurance Business Act, carry out the following matters with the permission of the court; in this case, with regard to application of the provisions of Article 172, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act in the case of carrying out the matters prescribed in item (i), and the term "the following" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "all":

(2)If a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring that is a Shinkin bank, etc. is unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets or is likely to be unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets, or has suspended payment of obligations or is likely to suspend payment of obligations, the relevant financial institution, etc. under special monitoring may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 48-3 and Article 58, paragraph (1) of the Shinkin Bank Act, Article 53 and Article 57-3, paragraph (1) of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Cooperatives Act, and Article 53 and Article 62, paragraph (1) of the Labor Bank Act, transfer its business with the permission of the court.

(3)If a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring that is a mutual company (meaning the mutual company prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Insurance Business Act; the same applies hereinafter) is unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets or is likely to be unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets, or has suspended payment of obligations or is likely to suspend payment of obligations, the relevant financial institution, etc. under special monitoring may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 62-2, paragraph (1), items (i) through (ii)-2 and Article 136 of the same Act, carry out the following with the permission of the court:

(4)If a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring is unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets or is likely to be unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets, or has suspended payment of obligations or is likely to suspend payment of obligations, when the DICJ finds it to be inappropriate to have the director, company director (in the case of a company with an audit and supervisory committee, a company director who is an audit and supervisory committee member or another company director), executive officer, accounting advisor, corporate auditor or accounting auditor (hereinafter referred to as the "officer, etc." in this Article) of the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring continue to carry out their duties, the DICJ may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 339, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act (including cases where it is applied by replacing the terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 347, paragraph (1) of the same Act) and Article 403, paragraph (1) of the same Act, Article 35-8, paragraph (1), of the Shinkin Bank Act, Article 42, paragraph (1) of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Cooperatives Act, Article 37-6, paragraph (1) of the Labor Bank Act, and Article 53-8, paragraph (1) and Article 53-27, paragraph (1) of the Insurance Business Act, dismiss the officer, etc. of the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring with the permission of the court.

(5)If the DICJ intends to dismiss any officer, etc. of a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring under the preceding paragraph, when the number of officers, etc. will fail to meet the number prescribed by an Act or by the articles of incorporation, the DICJ may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 329, paragraph (1) and Article 402, paragraph (2) of the Companies Act, Article 32, paragraph (3) of the Shinkin Bank Act, Article 35, paragraph (3) of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Cooperatives Act, Article 32, paragraph (3) of the Labor Bank Act, and Article 52, paragraph (1) and Article 53-26, paragraph (2) of the Insurance Business Act, appoint an officer, etc. of the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring with the permission of the court.

(6)The officer, etc. (excluding an executive officer; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) of a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring appointed under the preceding paragraph will resign at the conclusion of the first annual shareholders meeting, ordinary general meeting (in cases where a general meeting of representatives is established, at which it is possible to appoint officers, etc., the ordinary general meeting of representatives), or annual general meeting of members (in cases where a general meeting of representatives is established, at which it is possible to appoint an executive officer, the annual general meeting of representatives) convened after the conclusion of the special monitoring, and an executive officer will resign at the completion of the first meeting of the board of directors held after the conclusion of the relevant shareholders meeting or annual general meeting of members (in cases where a general meeting of representatives is established, at which it is possible to appoint officers, etc., the annual general meeting of representatives).

(7)If the permission prescribed in paragraphs (1) through (5) has been granted, it will be deemed that a resolution of a shareholders meeting, class meeting (in the case of a Shinkin bank, etc., a general meeting or general meeting of representatives, and in the case of a mutual company, general meeting of members, or general meeting of representatives) or board of directors meeting has been adopted concerning matters in relation to the relevant permission. With regard to application of the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1), Article 136-2, paragraph (1), and Article 250, paragraphs (3) and (5) of the Insurance Business Act in this case, the term "two weeks before the date of the shareholders meeting related to the resolution on the reduction (or, the date of the board of directors meeting where Article 447, paragraph (3) (Reductions in Amount of Capital) or Article 448, paragraph (3) (Reductions in Amount of Reserves) of the Companies Act)" in Article 16, paragraph (1) of the same Act will be deemed to be "a day within two weeks after the grant of the permission set forth in Article 126-13, paragraph (1) of the Deposit Insurance Act (Act No. 34 of 1971) in relation to the reduction", the term "two weeks before the date of the shareholders' meeting, etc. set forth in Article 136, paragraph (1)" in Article 136-2, paragraph (1) of the same Act will be deemed to be replaced with "a day within two weeks after the grant of the permission set forth in Article 126-13, paragraph (1) or paragraph (3) of the Deposit Insurance Act in relation to transfer of insurance contracts", and the term "the following paragraph" in Article 250, paragraph (3), item (i) of the same Act and the term "the preceding paragraph" in paragraph (5) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "Article 126-13, paragraph (11) of the Deposit Insurance Act", and the provisions of paragraph (4) of the same Article do not apply.

(8)If a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring is unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets or is likely to be unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets, or has suspended payment of obligations or is likely to suspend payment of obligations, when the DICJ finds it to be inappropriate to have the representative in Japan of the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring continue to carry out their duties, the DICJ may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 817, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act and Article 193, paragraph (1) of the Insurance Business Act, specify the representative in Japan of the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring with the permission of the court.

(9)The representative in Japan of a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring specified pursuant to the preceding paragraph will resign at the conclusion of the special monitoring.

(10)The district court which has jurisdiction over the location of the head office or principal office of the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring (if the head office or principal office is in a foreign state, the principal business office or office in Japan) has jurisdiction over cases in relation to the permission prescribed in paragraphs (1) through (5) and paragraph (8) (hereinafter referred to as a "substituted permission" in this Article).

(11)The court must, when it has made a substituted permission, serve a written decision thereof on the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring and give public notice of the outline of the decision.

(12)The public notice under the preceding paragraph will be published in the Official Gazette.

(13)A decision on the substituted permission takes effect as of the time of service thereof on the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring under paragraph (11).

(14)Shareholders, members or association members of Shinkin banks, etc., members of mutual companies, or foreign companies or foreign insurance company, etc. may make an immediate appeal against a decision on the substituted permission within an unextendable period of two weeks from the date of the public notice set forth in paragraph (11).

(15)The provisions of Article 5, Article 6, Article 7, paragraph (2), Article 40, Article 41, Article 56, paragraph (2), and Article 66, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Non-Contentious Cases Procedures Act do not apply to cases in relation to the substituted permission.

(16)The provisions of Article 88 apply mutatis mutandis to the case where substituted permission in relation to matters specified in paragraph (1), item (i), (ii), or (v) or matters prescribed in paragraph (4) or (5) has been granted.

Article 126-14When the DICJ finds that orderly resolution of assets and liabilities of the relevant financial institutions, etc. under special monitoring is likely to be hindered if a financial institution, etc. that is a creditor of a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring (if the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring is a foreign bank branch, a creditor of the foreign bank prescribed in Article 10, paragraph (2), item (viii) of the Banking Act (hereinafter referred to as a "foreign bank") in relation to the relevant foreign bank branch) collects claims from the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring or exercises any other right of a creditor specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance, the DICJ must request the relevant financial institution, etc. to refrain from exercising the relevant right until transfer of business is conducted or any other necessary measures for avoiding the risk of severe disruption being caused to the financial system in Japan are taken.

Article 126-15When a petition has been filed against a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring for commencement of bankruptcy proceedings (if the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring is a foreign bank branch, commencement of bankruptcy proceedings of the foreign bank in relation to the relevant foreign bank branch), commencement of rehabilitation proceedings (if the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring is a foreign bank branch, commencement of rehabilitation proceedings of the foreign bank in relation to the relevant foreign bank branch), commencement of reorganization proceedings (if the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring is a foreign bank branch, commencement of reorganization proceedings of the foreign bank in relation to the relevant foreign bank branch), commencement of special liquidation (in cases where the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring is a foreign company, foreign bank branch, or foreign insurance company, etc., commencement of liquidation under the provisions of Article 822, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 213 of the Insurance Business Act; the same applies hereinafter)) or recognition of foreign insolvency proceedings (if the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring is a foreign bank branch, recognition of foreign insolvency proceedings of the foreign bank in relation to the relevant foreign bank branch), the Prime Minister may, before a ruling or order is given on the relevant petition, state that measures for orderly resolution of assets and liabilities of the relevant financial institution, etc. under special monitoring have been taken, and state any other matters concerning the relevant financial institution, etc. under special monitoring, and express opinions on the timing of the relevant ruling or order and other matters to the court.

Article 126-16A movable or claim in relation to the business of a financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (ii) which the specified assuming financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (1) or the specified assuming holding company, etc. prescribed in the same paragraph succeeds to or receives by transfer though specified merger, etc. (limited to those designated by the Prime Minister (if the financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (ii) is a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if it is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry)) may not be seized.

Article 126-17The Prime Minister (if the financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation is a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if it is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry) may, when and to the extent that they find it necessary for smoothly implementing the orderly resolution of assets and liabilities of the financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation, order the relevant financial institution, etc. to retain part of its assets specified by Cabinet Order, within Japan, pursuant to the provisions of the Cabinet Order.

Article 126-18The provisions of Articles 76 and 86 apply mutatis mutandis to a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring (limited to a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring that is unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets or is likely to be unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets, or has suspended payment of obligations or is likely to suspend payment of obligations), the provisions of Article 82 apply mutatis mutandis to a special monitoring agent, and the provisions of Article 89 apply mutatis mutandis to a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring. In this case, the term "a bank, etc. or the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in Article 76, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "a stock company"; the term "if the financial institution under management set forth in the same paragraph is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in paragraph (2) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "if the financial institution under management set forth in the same paragraph is the subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2), item (i), the term 'the Prime Minister' in the previous paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with 'the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare,' and if it is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; the term "a financial institution under management" in Article 86, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring (limited to the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring prescribed in Article 126-3, paragraph (2) that is unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets or is likely to be unable to satisfy its obligations in full with its assets, or has suspended payment of obligations or is likely to suspend payment of obligations; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) and that is not the mutual company prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Insurance Business Act"; the term "resolutions or decisions under Article 48-3 of the Shinkin Bank Act, Article 53 of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Cooperatives Act, or Article 53 of the Labor Bank Act, and" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "resolutions or decisions under Article 48-3 of the Shinkin Bank Act, Article 53 of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Cooperatives Act, or Article 53 of the Labor Bank Act"; the term "resolutions or decisions under Article 22, paragraph (2), Article 29, paragraph (4) or Article 35, paragraph (2) of the Act on Financial Institutions' Merger and Conversion" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "resolutions or decisions under Article 22, paragraph (2), Article 29, paragraph (4) or Article 35, paragraph (2) of the Act on Financial Institutions' Merger and Conversion, and resolutions under Article 69, paragraph (2), Article 136, paragraph (2), Article 144, paragraph (3), Article 165-3, paragraph (2), or Article 165-10, paragraph (2) of the Insurance Business Act"; the term "a financial institution under management" in paragraph (2) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring that is not the mutual company prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Insurance Business Act"; the term "resolutions of a shareholders meeting or class meeting specified in each item of Article 309, paragraph (3) or Article 324, paragraph (3) of the Companies Act and" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "resolutions of a shareholders meeting or class meeting specified in each item of Article 309, paragraph (3) or Article 324, paragraph (3) of the Companies Act"; the term "resolutions under Article 22, paragraph (3) of the Act on Financial Institutions' Merger and Conversion" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "resolutions under Article 22, paragraph (3) of the Act on Financial Institutions' Merger and Conversion, and resolutions under Article 165-3, paragraph (4) or (6) or Article 165-10, paragraph (6) of the Insurance Business Act"; the term "a financial institution under management" in paragraph (3) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring that is not the mutual company prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Insurance Business Act"; the term "may, notwithstanding the provisions of the same paragraph, be made provisionally by a majority of the shareholders present and three-quarters or more of the votes held by the shareholders present" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "may, notwithstanding the provisions of the same paragraph, be made provisionally by a majority of the shareholders present and three-quarters or more of the votes held by the shareholders present, and in a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring that is the mutual company prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Insurance Business Act, resolutions under Article 57, paragraph (2), Article 60, paragraph (2), Article 62, paragraph (2), Article 62-2, paragraph (2), Article 86, paragraph (2), Article 136, paragraph (2), Article 144, paragraph (3), Article 156, or Article 165-16, paragraph (2) (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 165-20 of the same Act) of the same Act, notwithstanding these provisions, be made provisionally by three-quarters or more of the votes held by the members (if a general meeting of representatives is established, the representatives) present"; the term "the shareholders meeting, etc. prescribed in Article 66, paragraph (2)" in paragraph (4) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "in the case of a stock company, a shareholders meeting or class meeting (in the case prescribed in Article 22, paragraph (6) of the Act on Financial Institutions' Merger and Conversion, a shareholders meeting and the shareholders meeting set forth in the same paragraph), and in the case of a Shinkin bank, etc., a general meeting (if a general meeting of representatives is established, the general meeting of representatives)"; the term "In this case" in paragraph (7) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "In this case, the term 'its shareholders, etc.' in paragraph (4) will be deemed to be replaced with 'its shareholders, etc. or, in the case of the mutual company prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Insurance Business Act, its members (if a general meeting of representatives is established, its representatives)'; the term 'meaning the shareholders meeting, etc. prescribed in Article 66, paragraph (2)' in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with 'meaning the shareholders meeting, etc. prescribed in Article 66, paragraph (2) and, in the case of the mutual company prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Insurance Business Act, a general meeting of members (if a general meeting of representatives is established, the general meeting of representative)'"; the term "the term 'a majority as prescribed in paragraph (1)'" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "and the term 'a majority as prescribed in paragraph (1)'"; and the term "a bank, etc. or the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in Article 89 will be deemed to be replaced with "a stock company"; and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 126-19(1)If the DICJ receives from a financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (i) an application for loan of funds, etc. (meaning the loan of funds necessary for avoiding the risk of severe disruption being caused to the financial system in Japan or guarantee of obligations necessary for avoiding the risk of severe disruption being caused to the financial system in Japan), the DICJ may, when it finds it necessary, and following a resolution of the board, decide to provide the loan or the guarantee of obligations in relation to the relevant application within the limit necessary.

(2)When a loan under the preceding paragraph has been provided or when the obligations in relation to guarantee of obligations under the same paragraph have been paid, the DICJ has the right to have its claims satisfied out of the assets of the financial institution, etc. in relation to the right to reimbursement based on the relevant loan or the relevant guarantee of obligations in preference over other creditors.

(3)The order of the statutory lien under the preceding paragraph will be next to the general statutory lien under the provisions of the Civil Code.

Article 126-20(1)If a financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (i) falls under the financial institution, etc. specified in Article 126-2, paragraph (1), item (ii), the Prime Minister may, following deliberation by the council, rescind the relevant specified confirmation.

(2)The provisions of Article 126-2, paragraphs (3), (7), and (9) apply mutatis mutandis to revocation of the specified confirmation under the preceding paragraph.

Article 126-21(1)A financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (i) must, when the relevant financial institution, etc. and a financial institution, etc. which has the relevant financial institution, etc. as a subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc. do not make an application prescribed in paragraph (1) or (3) of the following Article, submit a plan to the Prime Minister within the period prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (5), setting forth measures to enhance the adequacy of equity capital or otherwise improve the financial conditions by a means other than subscription for specified shares, etc. in relation to specified measures under item (i).

(2)If the Prime Minister finds that the plan submitted under the preceding paragraph by a financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (i) is appropriate, the minister may, following deliberation by the council, rescind the specified confirmation in relation to the relevant financial institution, etc.

(3)The provisions of Article 126-2, paragraphs (3), (7), and (9) apply mutatis mutandis to revocation of the specified confirmation under the preceding paragraph.

(4)If a financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (i) and a financial institution, etc. which has the financial institution, etc. as a subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc. have not made an application prescribed in paragraph (1) or (3) of the following Article within the period prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (5), when the relevant financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (i) does not submit the plan prescribed in paragraph (1) within the relevant period, the Prime Minister may rescind the relevant specified confirmation.

(5)If the Prime Minister finds that the plan submitted by a financial institution, etc. under paragraph (1) is not appropriate, they may rescind the specified confirmation.

(6)If the Prime Minister intends to rescind the specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (i) under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, they must hear the opinion of the Minister of Finance in advance.

(7)The provisions of Article 126-2, paragraphs (3), (7) and (9) apply mutatis mutandis to revocation of the specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (i) under paragraph (4) or (5).

Article 126-22(1)A financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (i) (excluding a financial institution, etc. which has suspended payment of obligations) may apply to the DICJ to carry out a subscription for specified shares, etc. (meaning subscription for shares other than preferred shares or the subscription for specified preferred shares, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (3); the same applies hereinafter) of the relevant financial institution, etc. to enhance the adequacy of equity capital or otherwise improve the financial conditions of the relevant financial institution, etc.

(2)When the DICJ has received an application under the preceding paragraph, the DICJ must request a decision from the Prime Minister (if the financial institution, etc. in relation to the relevant application is a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if it is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry) in joint name with the relevant financial institution, etc. as to whether or not to carry out the subscription for specified shares, etc. in relation to the relevant application.

(3)A financial institution, etc. which has a financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (i) (excluding a financial institution, etc. which has suspended payment of obligations) as a subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc. may apply to the DICJ to carry out the subscription for specified shares, etc. of the relevant financial institution, etc. to enhance the adequacy of equity capital or otherwise improve the financial conditions of the relevant subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation.

(4)When the DICJ has received an application under the preceding paragraph, the DICJ must request a decision from the Prime Minister (if the subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc. in relation to the relevant application is a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if it is a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry) in joint name with the financial institution, etc. that has made the application as to whether or not to carry out the subscription for specified shares, etc. in relation to the relevant application.

(5)A financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (i) that has made an application prescribed in paragraph (1) or a financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (i) which is a subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc. of the financial institution, etc. that has made an application prescribed in paragraph (3) (hereinafter referred to as "subject subsidiary, etc." in this Chapter) must submit to the Prime Minister (if the financial institution, etc. in relation to the application set forth in paragraph (1) or the subject subsidiary, etc. in relation to the application set forth in paragraph (3) is a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if it is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; the same applies in the following paragraph, Article 105, paragraphs (5) and (6) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (7), and Article 126-24) a management soundness improvement plan (meaning a plan to improve sound business management; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter) setting forth measures to streamline the management and to establish a responsible management system (including, if a financial institution, etc. has made an application prescribed in paragraph (3), the management system of the relevant financial institution, etc.) and other measures specified by Cabinet Order. In this case, the subject subsidiary, etc. of the financial institution, etc. that is to make an application prescribed in paragraph (3) must submit the relevant plan in joint name with the relevant financial institution, etc.

(6)The Prime Minister is to make a decision to carry out the subscription for specified shares, etc. in relation to specified measures under item (i) in relation to an application prescribed in paragraph (1) or (3) only if all of the following requirements are satisfied:

(7)The provisions of Article 105, paragraph (5) apply mutatis mutandis to the case of making a decision under the preceding paragraph; the provisions of paragraph (6) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the case of having made a decision under paragraph (2) or (4), the provisions of paragraph (7) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the case where a decision is made not to carry out subscription for specified shares, etc. in relation to specified measures under item (i) in relation to the application prescribed in paragraph (1) or (3); the provisions of paragraph (8) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to rescission of specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (i) under paragraph (7) of the same Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph; the provisions of Article 106, if the application prescribed in paragraph (1) or (3) has been made (if an application prescribed in paragraph (1) has been made, limited to applications in relation to subscription for shares), apply mutatis mutandis to the financial institution, etc. that has made the application prescribed in paragraph (1) and has received a decision under the preceding paragraph with regard to the relevant application and that is a stock company, or to the financial institution, etc. or its subject subsidiary, etc. that has made the application prescribed in paragraph (3) and that is a stock company; the provisions of Article 107 apply mutatis mutandis to the case where the DICJ carries out subscription for specified shares, etc. in accordance with a decision under the preceding paragraph; the provisions of Article 107-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the case where the application prescribed in paragraph (1) or (3) is for subscription for shares or subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options) or specified subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options) and a decision under the preceding paragraph has been made with regard to the relevant application; the provisions of Article 107-3 apply mutatis mutandis to shares with restricted voting right prescribed in Article 115 of the Companies Act that have been issued in accordance with a decision under the relevant paragraph by a financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (i) or a financial institution, etc. with the relevant financial institution as its subject subsidiary, etc.; and the provisions of Article 107-4 apply mutatis mutandis to preferred equity investments that have been issued in accordance with a decision under the relevant paragraph by a financial institution that is subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (i). In this case, the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in Article 105, paragraph (5) will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank (meaning the subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2), item (i); the same applies hereinafter)"; the term "the financial institution that has made the application prescribed in paragraph (1) or the bank holding company, etc. that has made the application prescribed in paragraph (2)" in paragraph (6) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "the financial institution, etc. (meaning the financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2); the same applies hereinafter) that has made the application prescribed in Article 126-22, paragraph (1) or (3)"; the term "the confirmation in relation to the measures under item (i) with respect to the financial institution that has made the application prescribed in paragraph (1) or the subject subsidiary company of the bank holding company, etc." in paragraph (7) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "the specified confirmation (meaning the specified confirmation prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter) in relation to specified measures under item (i) (meaning the specified measures under item (i) prescribed in item (i) of the same paragraph) with respect to a subject subsidiary, etc. (meaning the subject subsidiary, etc. prescribed in Article 126-22, paragraph (5); the same applies hereinafter); the term "the Prime Minister is to" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Prime Minister may"; the term "the relevant subscription for shares be conditioned upon" in Article 106, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "subscription for specified shares, etc. (meaning the subscription for specified shares, etc. prescribed in Article 126-22, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter) be conditioned upon"; the term "the Prime Minister is to" in paragraph (4) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "the Prime Minister may"; the term "For the purpose of applying the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (3) if a financial institution subject to a decision under paragraph (4) of the preceding Article is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in paragraph (6) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "For the purpose of applying the provisions of paragraph (1) or (3) if a financial institution subject to a decision under paragraph (4) of the preceding Article is a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc. (meaning the subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2), item (i); the same applies hereinafter), the term 'the Prime Minister' in these provisions will be deemed to be replaced with 'the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare,' and if it is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; the term "the issuer of the shares, etc." in Article 107, paragraph (2) will be deemed to be replaced with "the issuer of the specified shares, etc. (meaning the specified shares, etc. prescribed in Article 126-22, paragraph (6), item (i))"; the term "or Rokinren Bank" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with ", Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc."; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; the term "a bank holding company, etc. has made an application prescribed in Article 105, paragraph (2)" in paragraph (3) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "a financial institution, etc. has made an application prescribed in Article 126-22, paragraph (3)"; the term "issued by the bank holding company, etc." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "with respect to the financial institution, etc."; the term "bank holding company, etc. is to" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "financial institution, etc. (including a subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc. (meaning the subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (5) and excluding a subject subsidiary, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) with respect to whom the relevant financial institution, etc. or its subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc. has carried out subscription for specified shares, etc. pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph)"; the term "the subject subsidiary company" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the subject subsidiary, etc. or the subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc."; the term "the subscription for shares, etc." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the subscription for specified shares, etc."; the term "the amount of the relevant subscription for shares" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the amount of the relevant subscription for specified shares, etc. of the financial institution, etc."; the term "is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd.," in Article 107-2, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "is a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if the issuer is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank,"; and the term "the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry"; and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 126-23(1)If a decision under paragraph (6) of the preceding Article has been made, a mutual company that is to solicit funds in relation to the relevant decision may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 60, paragraph (1) of the Insurance Business Act, decide on the amount of funds to be newly solicited by a resolution of the board of directors meeting and solicit the relevant funds.

(2)In the care prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the mutual company that is to solicit the funds set forth in the same paragraph may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 62, paragraph (1) of the Insurance Business Act, amend the articles of incorporation concerning the solicitation of funds by a resolution of the board of directors meeting.

Article 126-23-2(1)The provisions of Article 206-2 of the Companies Act do not apply to cases where a financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (i) (limited to subscription for shares) or a financial institution, etc. which has the relevant financial institution, etc. as a subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc. conducts the allotment of shares for subscription prescribed in Article 199, paragraph (1) of the same Act targeting the DICJ, or where a contract set forth in Article 205, paragraph (1) of the same Act is executed with the DICJ.

(2)The provisions of Article 244-2 of the Companies Act do not apply to cases where a financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (i) (limited to subscription for subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options) or specified subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options)) undertaken by the DICJ or a financial institution, etc. which has the relevant financial institution, etc. as a subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc. conducts the allotment of share options for subscription targeting the DICJ, or where a contract set forth in Article 244, paragraph (1) of the same Act is executed with the DICJ.

Article 126-24(1)The Prime Minister is to, upon making a decision under Article 126-22, paragraph (6), make public the management soundness improvement plan submitted under paragraph (5) of the same Article; provided, however, that this does not apply to information whose disclosure is likely to cause disruption to the financial system, matters which are likely to lead to the divulgence of any secret of creditors or any other business customers of a financial institution, etc. that has submitted the management strengthening plan (including a financial institution, etc. and a subsidiary, etc. of the financial institution, etc. that have submitted the relevant management soundness improvement plan in joint name; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), or matters which are likely to bring undue disadvantage to the conduct of business by the relevant financial institution, etc. that has submitted the management soundness improvement plan.

(2)The Prime Minister may, until the time when the DICJ makes a disposal or receives redemption or repayment with respect to the whole of acquired specified shares, etc. or acquired specified loan claims (meaning loan claims acquired by the DICJ pursuant to subscription for specified shares, etc. in relation to specified measures under item (i); hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter), request a financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to the specified measures under item (i) (including a financial institution, etc. that has submitted a management soundness improvement plan under Article 126-22, paragraph (5) in joint name with the relevant financial institution, etc.) to report the status of implementation of the management soundness improvement plan submitted under the same paragraph and make the report public.

(3)The term "acquired specified shares, etc." as used in the preceding paragraph means the following:

Article 126-25(1)A financial institution, etc. (including a company prescribed in item (i) of the following paragraph if the authorization set forth in this paragraph is given) with respect to which the DICJ has carried out the subscription for specified shares, etc. in accordance with a decision under Article 126-22, paragraph (6), which has issued acquired specified shares, etc. (meaning the acquired specified shares, etc. prescribed in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter) actually held by the DICJ (hereinafter referred to as "issuing financial institution, etc." in this Article) must obtain the authorization of the Prime Minister (if the issuing financial institution, etc. is a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if it is a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; the same applies in the following paragraph) in advance when the relevant financial institution, etc. intends to effect a share exchange (limited to those through which the issuing financial institution, etc. becomes a wholly owned subsidiary company in share exchange) or share transfer (hereinafter referred to as "share exchange, etc." in this Article).

(2)The Prime Minister is to give the authorization set forth in the preceding paragraph only if all of the following requirements are satisfied:

(3)If the issuing financial institution, etc. has carried out the share exchange, etc. following the authorization set forth in paragraph (1), the relevant issuing financial institution, etc. or a subsidiary, etc., that is the subject subsidiary, etc. (including the bridge subsidiary, etc. prescribed in paragraph (4) of the following Article) of the financial institution, etc., with respect to which the DICJ has carried out the subscription for specified shares, etc. in accordance with a decision under Article 126-22, paragraph (6) (limited to a decision in relation to the application set forth in paragraph (1) of the same Article), or with respect to which the DICJ has carried out the subscription for specified shares, etc. in accordance with a decision under Article 126-22, paragraph (6) (limited to a decision in relation to the application set forth in paragraph (3) of the same Article) must submit to the Prime Minister, in joint name with a company that has become, through the relevant share exchange, etc., a wholly owning parent company resulting from share exchange or wholly owning parent company incorporated in a share transfer of the relevant issuing financial institution, etc., replacing the management strengthening plan (meaning the plan submitted under Article 126-22, paragraph (5), this paragraph, or paragraph (3) of the following Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) of the following Article) that has been implemented, a new management soundness improvement plan stating, beyond the measures stated in the relevant management soundness improvement plan (excluding the part in relation to the management system of the financial institution, etc. in joint name with whom the relevant management soundness improvement plan was submitted), measures to establish a responsible management system in a company that has become, through the share exchange, etc., a wholly owning parent company resulting from share exchange or wholly owning parent company incorporated in a share transfer of the relevant issuing financial institution, etc., and other measures specified by Cabinet Order (if the financial institution, etc. submitting the management soundness improvement plan is a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the management soundness improvement plan will be submitted to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if it is a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the management soundness improvement plan will be submitted to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; the same applies in the following paragraph).

(4)The provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the management soundness improvement plan submitted to the Prime Minister under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "financial institution, etc. ... (... that has submitted a management soundness improvement plan under Article 126-22, paragraph (5)" in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article will be deemed to be replaced with "financial institution, etc. ... that has submitted a management soundness improvement plan under paragraph (3) of the following paragraph (... that has submitted the relevant management soundness improvement plan.", and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 126-26(1)A financial institution, etc. (including a bridge financial institution, etc. prescribed in item (i) of the following paragraph if the authorization set forth in this paragraph is given) with respect to which the DICJ has carried out the subscription for specified shares, etc. in accordance with a decision under Article 126-22, paragraph (6) (limited to a decision in relation to the application set forth in paragraph (1) of the same Article), and which is an issuer of acquired specified shares, etc. or obligor of acquired specified loan claims actually held by the DICJ (hereinafter referred to as "subject financial institution, etc." in this Article) must, when the financial institution, etc. intends to implement a merger, company split, takeover of all or part of rights and obligations concerning business through a company split, or transfer of business, etc. (hereinafter referred to as "corporate reorganization" in this Article), obtain the authorization of the Prime Minister (if the subject financial institution, etc. is a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if it is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; the same applies in the following paragraph) in advance.

(2)The Prime Minister is to give the authorization set forth in the preceding paragraph only if all of the following requirements are satisfied:

(3)If the subject financial institution, etc. has conducted the corporate reorganization following the authorization set forth in paragraph (1), when there is any bridge financial institution, etc. in relation to the relevant corporate reorganization, the relevant bridge financial institution, etc. must submit a management soundness improvement plan, setting forth measures to streamline the management, measures to establish a responsible management system, and other measures specified by Cabinet Order, to the Prime Minister (if the relevant bridge financial institution, etc. is a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if it is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry).

(4)The provisions of the preceding three paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to the subject subsidiary, etc. of the financial institution, etc. with respect to which the DICJ has carried out the subscription for specified shares, etc. in accordance with a decision under Article 126-22, paragraph (6) (limited to a decision in relation to the application set forth in paragraph (3) of the same Article) or the financial institution, etc. (including the bridge financial institution, etc.) with respect to which the DICJ has carried out the subscription for specified shares, etc. in accordance with a decision under paragraph (6) of the same Article (limited to a decision in relation to an application under paragraph (1) of the same Article) that has ceased to be a subject financial institution, etc. as a result of the relevant share exchange or share transfer effected by the relevant financial institution, etc. (including a bridge subsidiary, etc. (meaning another financial institution, etc. as prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph; hereinafter the same applies in this Article); hereinafter referred to as "specified subject subsidiary, etc." in this Article) that has been implementing a management soundness improvement plan (meaning a plan submitted under Article 126-22, paragraph (5), paragraph (3) of the preceding Article (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (8)), the preceding paragraph as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph, or paragraph (7)). In this case, the term "merger" in paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "until the time that the DICJ has made a disposal or received redemption or repayment with respect to the whole of acquired specified shares, etc. or acquired specified loan claims in relation to the financial institution, etc. that has carried out the subscription for specified shares, etc. in accordance with a decision under Article 126-22, paragraph (6) in relation to the relevant management soundness improvement plan, merger"; the term "the subject financial institution, etc. is a labor bank, a federation of labor banks, or" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "a specified subject subsidiary, etc. (meaning the specified subject subsidiary, etc. prescribed in paragraph (4); the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraph (3)) which has been implementing a management soundness improvement plan is"; the term "A corporation that is to become an issuer of acquired specified shares, etc. or obligor of acquired specified loan claims held by the DICJ after the corporate reorganization is the subject financial institution, etc. or is another financial institution, etc. (including those that will be newly established; hereinafter referred to as 'bridge financial institution, etc.' in this Article) that succeeds to the whole of the business in relation to the relevant management soundness improvement plan (meaning the plan submitted under Article 126-22, paragraph (5) or the following paragraph) that has been implemented by the relevant subject financial institution, etc." in paragraph (2), item (i) will be deemed to be replaced with "A financial institution, etc. that has submitted the relevant management strengthening plan in joint name with the relevant specified subject subsidiary, etc. is a financial institution, etc. which has, as a financial institution subsidiary, etc. the relevant specified subject subsidiary, etc. or another financial institution, etc. (including those that will be newly established; hereinafter referred to as 'bridge financial institution, etc.' in this Article) that succeeds to the whole of the business in relation to the relevant management soundness improvement plan after the corporate reorganization"; the term "the subject financial institution, etc. (including the bridge financial institution, etc.)" in item (ii) of the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "a specified subject subsidiary, etc. that has been implementing a management strengthening plan (including the bridge subsidiary, etc.)"; and the term "setting forth measures to achieve the rationalization of management" in the preceding paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "in joint name with the financial institution, etc. in joint name with whom the management soundness improvement plan set forth in item (i) of the preceding paragraph was submitted, setting forth measures to achieve the rationalization of management"; and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

(5)A specified financial institution, etc. (meaning the financial institution, etc. set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article which is an issuer of acquired specified shares, etc. or obligor of acquired specified loan claims actually held by the DICJ, and including another financial institution, etc. as prescribed in item (i) of the following paragraph if the authorization set forth in this paragraph is given or the company prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i) of the preceding Article as applied mutatis mutandis in paragraph (8) if the authorization set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article as applied mutatis mutandis in paragraph (8) is given which is an issuer of acquired specified shares, etc. or obligor of acquired specified loan claims actually held by the DICJ (hereinafter referred to as a "financial institution, etc. after corporate reorganization" in this Article); the same applies in the following paragraph ) other than a subject financial institution, etc. must, when the specified financial institution, etc. intends to conduct corporate reorganization, obtain the authorization of the Prime Minister (if the relevant specified financial institution, etc. is a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if it is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; the same applies in the following paragraph) in advance.

(6)The Prime Minister is to give the authorization set forth in the preceding paragraph only if all of the following requirements are satisfied:

(7)If a specified financial institution, etc. (meaning the financial institution, etc. set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article which is an issuer of acquired specified shares, etc. or obligor of acquired specified loan claims actually held by the DICJ) other than the subject financial institution, etc. or the financial institution, etc. after corporate reorganization has conducted corporate reorganization following the authorization set forth in paragraph (5), if there is another financial institution, etc. prescribed in item (i) of the preceding paragraph, the relevant specified financial institution, etc. or the specified subject subsidiary, etc. in relation to the financial institution, etc. after corporate reorganization must submit to the Prime Minister (if the relevant specified subject subsidiary, etc. is a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if it is a subsidiary, etc. of The Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry), in joint name with that other financial institution, etc., a new management strengthening plan to replace the management soundness improvement plan that has been implemented (meaning the management soundness improvement plan prescribed in paragraph (4)), stating, beyond the measures stated in the relevant management soundness improvement plan (excluding the part in relation to the management system of the financial institution, etc. in joint name with whom the relevant management soundness improvement plan was submitted), measures to establish a responsible management system in that other financial institution, etc., and other measures specified by Cabinet Order.

(8)The provisions of Article 126-24, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the management soundness improvement plans submitted to the Prime Minister (if the financial institution, etc. that has submitted the management soundness improvement plan is a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if it is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry) under paragraph (3) (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (4)) or the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 126-24, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the financial institution, etc. (including the financial institution, etc. in joint name with whom these management soundness improvement plans have been submitted) that has submitted these management soundness improvement plans, and the provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to a bridge financial institution, etc. that is an issuer of acquired specified shares, etc. actually held by the DICJ or the financial institution, etc. after corporate reorganization that is an issuer of acquired specified shares, etc. actually held by the DICJ. In this case, the terms "the subject subsidiary, etc. (including the bridge subsidiary, etc. prescribed in paragraph (4) of the following Article) of the financial institution, etc. with respect to which the DICJ has carried out the subscription for specified shares, etc. in accordance with a decision under Article 126-22, paragraph (6) (limited to a decision in relation to the application set forth in paragraph (1) of the same Article), or with respect to which the DICJ has carried out the subscription for specified shares, etc. in accordance with a decision under Article 126-22, paragraph (6) (limited to a decision in relation to the application set forth in paragraph (3) of the same Article)" in Article 126-22, paragraph (3) will be deemed to be replaced with "the specified subject subsidiary, etc. prescribed in paragraph (4) of the following Article", and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 126-26-2The provisions of Part II, Chapter 2, Section 4-2 of the Companies Act do not apply to special controlling shareholders of a financial institution, etc. (including the company, etc. prescribed in Article 126-25, paragraph (2), item (i) if the authorization has been given under paragraph (1) of the same Article, the bridge financial institution, etc. prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i) of the preceding Article if the authorization has been given under paragraph (1) of the same Article, and the financial institution, etc. after corporate reorganization prescribed in paragraph (5) of the same Article) for which the DICJ has conducted the subscription for specified shares, etc. based on a decision under Article 126-22, paragraph (6) and which has issued shares that are acquired specified shares, etc. actually held by the DICJ or subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options) or specified subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options).

Article 126-27(1)The DICJ must, if it intends to transfer or make any other disposal of acquired specified shares, etc. or acquired specified loan claims, obtain approval from the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance (if an issuer of the relevant acquired specified shares, etc. or obligor of acquired specified loan claims is a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., from the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if an issuer of the relevant acquired specified shares, etc. or obligor of acquired specified loan claims is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, from the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; the same applies in the following paragraph).

(2)Upon making a disposal prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the DICJ must promptly report the details thereof to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.

Article 126-28(1)A financial institution, etc. undertaking a specified merger, etc. that is not a financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation in relation to specified measures under item (ii) (the financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation will be hereinafter referred to as a "specified failed financial institution, etc.", and the financial institution, etc. undertaking a specified merger, etc. will be hereinafter referred to as a "specified assuming financial institution, etc.") or a specified holding company, etc. (meaning a bank holding company, etc., an insurance holding company, etc. prescribed in Article 241, paragraph (2) of the Insurance Business Act (excluding those set forth in items (ii) and (iv) of the same paragraph) or a designated parent company; the same applies hereinafter) undertaking a specified merger, etc. that is not a specified failed financial institution, etc. (hereinafter referred to as a "specified assuming holding company, etc.") may apply to have the DICJ take the following measures to support the specified merger, etc. (hereinafter referred to as the "specified financial assistance"):

(2)The term "specified merger, etc." as used in the preceding paragraph means the following:

(3)The term "subscription for specified preferred shares, etc." as used in paragraph (1), item (vi) means subscription for preferred shares, etc., subscription for specified subordinated bonds, loans for consumption made pursuant to specified subordinated loan agreements (meaning loans for consumption falling under those with a special clause of subordinated contents with regard to the payment of principal and interest, and which are specified by Cabinet Order as contributing to the adequacy of equity capital or otherwise improving the financial conditions of those other than a financial institution or bank holding company, etc.), subscription for equity investments of those other than stock companies and the cooperative financial institutions prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Preferred Equity Investment Act, or contribution of funds.

(4)The specified financial assistance provided to support a merger specified in paragraph (2), item (ii) or an incorporation-type company split specified in item (vii) of the same paragraph will be provided to the specified assuming financial institution, etc. or financial institution, etc. that will be established by the merger or the incorporation-type company split, and if there are two or more specified assuming financial institutions, etc. involved in the merger or the incorporation-type company split, the application prescribed in paragraph (1) will be made in joint name of the relevant specified assuming financial institutions, etc.

(5)The purchase of assets specified in paragraph (1), item (iii) will be conducted with respect to the assets of a specified failed financial institution, etc. in relation to a specified merger, etc. (meaning the specified merger, etc. prescribed in paragraph (2); the same applies hereinafter) or assets specified in each of the following items according to the category of specified merger, etc. specified in the item, and if the specified financial assistance in relation to the application prescribed in paragraph (1) includes the purchase of assets of a specified failed financial institution, etc. in relation to a specified merger, etc., the specified assuming financial institution, etc. or specified assuming holding company, etc. in relation to the specified merger, etc. applies to the DICJ in joint name with the relevant specified failed financial institution, etc. for the DICJ to purchase the relevant assets:

(6)The collateralization of damage specified in paragraph (1), item (vii) will be performed with respect to the loan claims that are the assets prescribed in each of the preceding items according to the category of specified merger, etc. specified in the items.

(7)A financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc. that has made an application under paragraph (1) or (5) must promptly report to that effect to the Prime Minister (in the case of a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and in the case of the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry).

(8)Upon receiving an application under paragraph (1) or (5), the DICJ must promptly report to that effect to the Minister of Finance; provided, however, that this does not apply to cases where the financial institution, etc. that has made the relevant application is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank.

(9)If a resolution by the board prescribed in Article 64, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 126-31 is to be deliberated with respect to the specified financial assistance in relation to the application prescribed in paragraph (1) or (5) or Article 59-2, paragraph (1) or Article 60, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 126-31, the board may, when it finds that, in light of the financial conditions of the specified failed financial institution, etc., the specified financial assistance does not exceed the scope necessary to carry out the specified merger, etc. in relation to the relevant specified financial assistance, adopt a resolution to provide the specified financial assistance.

Article 126-29(1)With regard to a specified merger, etc. in relation to an application prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article or Article 59-2, paragraph (1) or Article 60, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 126-31, a specified failed financial institution, etc. and specified assuming financial institution, etc. or specified failed financial institution, etc. and specified assuming holding company, etc. in relation to the relevant specified merger, etc. must obtain the confirmation of the Prime Minister by the time the application under these provisions is made.

(2)An application for the confirmation under the preceding paragraph will be made in joint name of the specified failed financial institution, etc. and specified assuming financial institution, etc. or specified failed financial institution, etc. and specified assuming holding company, etc. prescribed in the preceding paragraph.

(3)The Prime Minister may not grant confirmation under paragraph (1) unless all of the following requirements are satisfied:

(4)The Prime Minister must, when granting confirmation under paragraph (1) to a labor bank, Rokinren Bans, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., obtain consent from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and when granting confirmation under paragraph (1) to the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, obtain consent from the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry.

(5)The Prime Minister must, when granting confirmation under paragraph (1), make clear which financial institution, etc. in relation to the relevant confirmation is a specified failed financial institution, etc.

(6)Upon granting the confirmation under paragraph (1), the Prime Minister must notify the DICJ to that effect.

(7)Upon receiving notice under the preceding paragraph, the DICJ must promptly report to that effect to the Minister of Finance.

(8)If a company seeking to acquire the shares of a specified failed financial institution, etc. will become a holding company which has a bank as its subsidiary company prescribed in Article 52-17, paragraph (1) of the Banking Act, a holding company which has a long-term credit bank as its subsidiary company prescribed in Article 16-2-4, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Credit Bank Act, or a holding company which has an insurance company as its subsidiary company prescribed in Article 271-18, paragraph (1) of the Insurance Business Act through the acquisition of the relevant shares, the Prime Minister may not grant confirmation under paragraph (1) until after they has granted the authorization set forth in Article 52-17, paragraph (1) of the Banking Act, Article 16-2-4, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Credit Bank Act, or Article 271-18, paragraph (1) of the Insurance Business Act to the relevant company.

Article 126-30Even in cases where no application is being made under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, if the Prime Minister finds that the business or obligations of a specified failed financial institution, etc. satisfies the requirements specified in paragraph (3), item (iii) of the preceding Article, they may provide mediation in writing with regard to the specified merger, etc. (excluding the merger specified in Article 126-28, paragraph (2), item (ii) and limited to those that contribute to the orderly resolution of assets and liabilities of the specified failed financial institution, etc. in relation to the relevant specified merger, etc. and for which the specified financial assistance by the DICJ is indispensable) between the relevant specified failed financial institution, etc. and another financial institution, etc. or that specified failed financial institution, etc. and a specified holding company, etc.

Article 126-31The provisions of Article 59-2 apply mutatis mutandis to a specified assuming financial institution, etc. undertaking a specified merger, etc. (limited to the transfer of business, etc. specified in Article 126-28, paragraph (2), item (iii) whereby a specified failed financial institution, etc. transfers part of its business to another financial institution, etc., the specified assumption of obligations, the absorption-type company split specified in item (vi) of the same paragraph where another financial institution, etc. succeeds to part of the rights and obligations held by the specified failed financial institution, etc. in relation to its business, or the incorporation-type company split specified in item (vii) of the same paragraph where the newly established financial institution, etc. succeeds to part of the rights and obligations held by the specified failed financial institution, etc. in relation to its business; the provisions of Article 60 apply mutatis mutandis to a financial institution, etc. designated by the Prime Minister of which specified merger, etc. is to be supported; the provisions of Article 62 (excluding paragraph (1)) apply mutatis mutandis to the mediation set forth in the preceding Article; the provisions of Article 64 (excluding paragraph (2)) apply mutatis mutandis to an application under Article 126-28, paragraph (1) or (5) or under Article 59-2, paragraph (1) or Article 60, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this Article; the provisions of Article 64-2 apply mutatis mutandis to an application under Article 126-28, paragraph (1); the provisions of Article 64-3, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to a specified failed financial institution, etc. whose shares are acquired as set forth in Article 126-28, paragraph (2), item (v) by a specified assuming financial institution, etc. or a specified assuming holding company, etc.; the provisions of Article 64-3, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to a specified assuming financial institution, etc., a specified assuming holding company, etc., or a financial institution established by the merger set forth in Article 126-28, paragraph (2), item (ii) or the incorporation-type company split set forth in item (vii) of the same paragraph to which the DICJ provides the specified financial assistance (limited to those in relation to subscription for subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options) or specified subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options)); the provisions of Articles 65 and 66 apply mutatis mutandis to a financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc. which has received the confirmation set forth in Article 126-29, paragraph (1) or the mediation set forth in the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as "specified confirmation of eligibility, etc."); the provisions of Article 67 apply mutatis mutandis to a specified assuming financial institution, etc. which has received specified confirmation of eligibility, etc.; the provisions of Article 68 apply mutatis mutandis to the specified financial assistance provided by the DICJ for a specified merger, etc. in relation to specified confirmation of eligibility, etc.; the provisions of Articles 68-2 and 68-3 apply mutatis mutandis to the assuming financial institution, etc. (meaning the specified assuming financial institution, etc. or specified assuming holding company, etc. (including the company prescribed in Article 68-2, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this Article if an approval has been obtained under Article 68-2, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this Article, and the bridge financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 68-3, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this Article if an approval has been obtained under Article 68-3, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this Article; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) for which the DICJ has conducted the subscription for specified preferred shares, etc. (meaning the subscription for specified preferred shares, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (3); the same applies hereinafter)); and the provisions of Article 68-4 apply mutatis mutandis to special controlling shareholders of an assuming financial institution, etc. for which the DICJ has conducted the subscription for specified preferred shares, etc. and which has issued shares that are acquired specified preferred shares, etc. (meaning the acquired specified preferred shares, etc. prescribed in Article 64-2, paragraph (6) as applied mutatis mutandis by replacing the terms pursuant to this Article) actually held by the DICJ or subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options) or specified subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options). In this case, the term "equity between creditors of the failed financial institution" in Article 59-2, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "equity between creditors and any other interested persons of the specified failed financial institution, etc. (meaning the specified failed financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter)"; the term "paragraph (6) of the preceding Article" in paragraph (3) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "Article 126-28, paragraph (7)"; the term "failed financial institution that have made an application under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, and the provisions of paragraph (7)" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "specified failed financial institution, etc. that have made an application under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, and the provisions of paragraph (8)"; the term "a financial institution in relation to the merger, etc. (excluding the failed financial institution) or to a bank holding company, etc. in relation to the merger, etc." in Article 60, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "a financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2) in relation to the specified merger, etc. (meaning the specified merger, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (2); the same applies hereinafter) (the financial institution, etc. excludes the specified failed financial institution, etc.) or to a specified holding company, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (1) in relation to the specified merger, etc. (excluding the specified failed financial institution, etc.)"; the term "financial institution" in paragraph (2) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "financial institution, etc. (meaning the financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2); the same applies hereinafter)"; the term "bank holding company, etc." in Article 62, paragraph (2) will be deemed to be replaced with "specified holding company, etc. (meaning the specified holding company, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter)"; the term "paragraphs (4) through (7) of the preceding Article" in paragraph (4) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "Article 126-29, paragraphs (4), (6), and (7)"; the term "financial assistance" in Article 64, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "specified financial assistance (meaning the specified financial assistance prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter)"; the term "or federation of labor banks" in paragraph (3) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with ", a federation of labor banks, or a subsidiary, etc. of a Labor Bank, etc. (meaning the subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2), item (i); the same applies hereinafter)"; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank (meaning the Subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank prescribed in the same item; the same applies hereinafter)"; the term "subscription for preferred shares, etc." in Article 64-2, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "subscription for specified preferred shares, etc. (meaning the subscription for specified preferred shares, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (3); the same applies hereinafter"; the term "assuming financial institution or assuming bank holding company, etc. (excluding the companies specified in Article 2, paragraph (5), item (v)" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "specified assuming financial institution, etc. (meaning the specified assuming financial institution, etc. prescribed in paragraph (1) of the same Article; the same applies hereinafter) or specified assuming holding company, etc. (meaning the specified assuming holding company, etc. prescribed in the same paragraph"; the term "adequacy of equity capital" in paragraph (2) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "adequacy of equity capital or otherwise improve the financial conditions"; the term "or Rokinren Bank" in paragraph (3) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with ", Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc."; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; the term "acquired preferred shares, etc. or acquired loan claims" in paragraph (5) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "acquired specified preferred shares, etc. or acquired specified loan claims"; the term "subscription for preferred shares, etc." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "subscription for specified preferred shares, etc."; the term "acquired preferred shares, etc." in paragraph (6) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "acquired specified preferred shares, etc."; the term "subscription for preferred shares, etc." in item (i) of the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "subscription for specified preferred shares, etc."; the term "preferred shares, etc. (including the following) and other shares, etc. specified by Cabinet Order" in the same item will be deemed to be replaced with "specified preferred shares, etc. (meaning preferred shares, etc., specified subordinated bonds prescribed in Article 126-22, paragraph (6), item (i), equity investments of those other than stock companies and the cooperative financial institutions prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Preferred Equity Investment Act, or claims in relation to funds) (including the following in the case of preferred shares, etc., and including equivalents of the following in the case of specified subordinated bonds prescribed in the same item, equity investments of those other than stock companies and the cooperative financial institutions prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Preferred Equity Investment Act, or claims in relation to funds)"; the term "or Rokinren Bank" in Article 65 will be deemed to be replaced with ", Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc."; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; the term "a merger, transfer of business, etc., transfer of insured deposits" in Article 66, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "a merger, transfer of business, etc., specified assumption of obligations (meaning the specified assumption of obligations prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (2), item (iv); the same applies hereinafter)"; the term "a merger, transfer of business, etc., transfer of insured deposits" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "a merger, transfer of business, etc., specified assumption of obligations"; the term "or Rokinren Bank" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with ", Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc."; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; the term "to that effect. The same applies when, if a resolution of shareholders meeting, etc. or consent of all shareholders or all class shareholders is required for share exchange under the provisions of this Act, the Companies Act, or the articles of incorporation, a bank holding company, etc. that has received the confirmation of eligibility, etc. has obtained or failed to obtain the resolution or consent for share exchange in relation to the relevant confirmation of eligibility, etc." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "to that effect."; the term "a bank, etc., bank holding company, etc., or the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in paragraph (2) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "a financial institution, etc. that is a stock company, or specified holding company, etc."; the term "a general meeting or general meeting of representatives" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "a general meeting or general meeting of representatives, in the case of a mutual company prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Insurance Business Act, a general meeting of members or general meeting of representatives, and in the case of a financial institution, etc. other than these or specified holding company, etc., a body that decides its financial and operational or business policies"; the term "or federation of labor banks" in paragraph (3) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with", Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc."; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; the term "paragraph (1) of the Act on Financial Institutions' Merger and Conversion" in the same item will be deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (1) of the Act on Financial Institutions' Merger and Conversion, or the principal sentence of Article 165-11, paragraph (1) of the Insurance Business Act"; the term "paragraph (2) of the Act on Financial Institutions' Merger and Conversion" in the same item will be deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (2) of the Act on Financial Institutions' Merger and Conversion, or Article 165-11, paragraph (2) of the Insurance Business Act"; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in paragraph (4) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; the term "transfer of insured deposits" in Article 67 will be deemed to be replaced with "specified assumption of obligations"; the term "or Rokinren Bank" in paragraph (2) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with", Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc."; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; the term "including those that will be newly established and, in the case of a bank holding company, etc., limited to those specified in Article 2, paragraph (5), item (i) or (iii)" in Article 68-2, paragraph (2) will be deemed to be replaced with "including those that will be newly established"; the term "Minister of Finance" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry"; the term "Minister of Finance" in paragraph (3) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "Minister of Finance (if the issuing assuming financial institution, etc. is a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if the issuing assuming financial institution, etc. is a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry)"; the term "financial institution or bank holding company, etc. (limited to those specified in Article 2, paragraph (5), items (i) and (iii))" in Article 68-3, paragraph (2) will be deemed to be replaced with "financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc."; the term "or Rokinren Bank" in paragraph (3) of the Article will be deemed to be replaced with ", Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc."; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 126-32(1)If, subsequent to a specified merger, etc. in relation to the specified financial assistance, a specified assuming financial institution, etc. or specified assuming holding company, etc. in relation to the specified financial assistance or a financial institution, etc. established by the merger or incorporation-type company split in relation to that specified financial assistance applies for additional specified financial assistance (referred to as "additional specified financial assistance" in paragraphs (4) and (5)), the DICJ may, when it finds it necessary, provide the additional specified financial assistance to the financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc. that has made the application.

(2)The purchase of assets in relation to the application under the preceding paragraph will be conducted with respect to the assets of the specified failed financial institution, etc. in relation to a specified merger, etc. (limited to the transfer of business, etc. specified in Article 126-28, paragraph (2), item (iii) in which a specified failed financial institution, etc. transfers part of its business to another financial institution, etc., the specified assumption of obligations, the absorption-type company split specified in item (vi) of the same paragraph where another financial institution, etc. succeeds to part of the rights and obligations held by the specified failed financial institution, etc. in relation to its business, or the incorporation-type company split specified in item (vii) of the same paragraph where the financial institution, etc. newly established through the incorporation-type company split succeeds to part of the rights and obligations held by the specified failed financial institution, etc. in relation to its business) or assets prescribed in each of the following items according to the category of specified merger, etc. specified in each respective item, and if the specified financial assistance in relation to the application under the preceding paragraph includes the purchase of assets of the specified failed financial institution, etc. in relation to a specified merger, etc. (limited to the transfer of business, etc. specified in Article 126-28, paragraph (2), item (iii) in which a specified failed financial institution, etc. transfers part of its business to another financial institution, etc., the specified assumption of obligations, the absorption-type company split specified in item (vi) of the same paragraph where another financial institution, etc. succeeds to part of the rights and obligations held by the specified failed financial institution, etc. in relation to its business, or the incorporation-type company split specified in item (vii) of the same paragraph where the financial institution, etc. newly established through the incorporation-type company split succeeds to part of the rights and obligations held by the specified failed financial institution, etc. in relation to its business; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph and paragraph (4)), a specified assuming financial institution, etc. in relation to the relevant specified merger, etc. applies to the DICJ for the purchase of the relevant assets in joint name with the relevant specified failed financial institution, etc.:

(3)The collateralization of damage in relation to an application under paragraph (1) will be performed with respect to the loan claims that are the assets prescribed in each of the preceding items according to the category of specified merger, etc. specified in the same item.

(4)The provisions of Article 59-2 apply mutatis mutandis to a specified assuming financial institution, etc. that has undertaken a specified merger, etc. in relation to the specified financial assistance; the provisions of Article 64 (excluding paragraph (2)), Article 64-2, and Article 126-28, paragraphs (7) and (8) apply mutatis mutandis to an application under paragraph (1) or (2); the provisions of Article 64-3, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to a specified assuming financial institution, etc., a specified assuming holding company, etc., or a financial institution, etc. established by the merger or incorporation-type company split in relation to the specified financial assistance to which the DICJ provides the additional specified financial assistance (limited to those in relation to subscription for subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options)) or specified subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options); the provisions of Articles 67 and 68 apply mutatis mutandis to the additional specified financial assistance; the provisions of Articles 68-2 and 68-3 apply mutatis mutandis to an assuming financial institution, etc. (meaning a specified assuming financial institution, etc., a specified assuming holding company, etc., or a financial institution, etc. established by the merger or incorporation-type company split in relation to the specified financial assistance (excluding a financial institution, etc. to which the DICJ has provided specified financial assistance in relation to subscription for specified preferred shares, etc. and in which the DICJ actually holds acquired specified preferred shares, etc. (meaning the acquired specified preferred shares, etc. prescribed in Article 64-2, paragraph (6) as applied mutatis mutandis by replacing the terms pursuant to this paragraph; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) in relation to the relevant specified financial assistance, and including the company prescribed in Article 68-2, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph if an approval has been obtained under paragraph (1) of the same Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph and the bridge financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 68-3, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph if an approval has been obtained under paragraph (1) of the same Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), to which the DICJ has provided the additional specified financial assistance (limited to those in relation to Subscription for Specified preferred shares, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph); and the provisions of Article 68-4 apply mutatis mutandis to special controlling shareholders of an Assuming financial Institution, etc. to which the DICJ has provided the additional specified financial Assistance and which has issued shares that are acquired specified preferred shares, etc. actually held by the DICJ or subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options) or specified subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options). In this case, the term "equity between creditors of the failed financial institution" in Article 59-2, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "equity between creditors and any other interested persons of the specified failed financial institution, etc. (meaning the specified failed financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter)"; the term "paragraph (6) of the preceding Article" in paragraph (3) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "Article 126-28, paragraph (7)"; the term "failed financial institution that have made an application under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, and the provisions of paragraph (7)" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "specified failed financial institution, etc. that have made an application under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, and the provisions of paragraph (8)"; the term "financial assistance" in Article 64, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "additional specified financial assistance (meaning the additional specified financial assistance prescribed in Article 126-32, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter)"; the term "a merger, etc. to which a labor bank or federation of labor banks is a party" in paragraph (3) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "a specified merger, etc. (meaning the specified merger, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (2); the same applies hereinafter) to which a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc. (meaning the subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2), item (i); the same applies hereinafter) is a party"; the term "a merger, etc. to which the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. is a party" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "a specified merger, etc. to which the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank (the subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank prescribed in the same item; the same applies hereinafter) is a party"; the term "financial institution or bank holding company, etc." in paragraph (4) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "financial institution, etc. (meaning the financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2); the same applies hereinafter) or specified holding company, etc. (meaning the specified holding company, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter)"; the term "subscription for preferred shares, etc." in Article 64-2, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "subscription for specified preferred shares, etc. (meaning the subscription for specified preferred shares, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (3); the same applies hereinafter)"; the term "assuming financial institution or assuming bank holding company, etc. (excluding the companies specified in Article 2, paragraph (5), item (v); hereinafter the same applies in this Article)" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc. prescribed in the same paragraph"; the term "adequacy of equity capital" in paragraph (2) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "adequacy of equity capital or otherwise improve the financial conditions"; the term "or federation of labor banks" in paragraph (3) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with ", Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc."; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; the term "acquired preferred shares, etc. or acquired loan claims" in paragraph (5) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "acquired specified preferred shares, etc. or acquired specified loan claims"; the term "subscription for preferred shares, etc." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "subscription for specified preferred shares, etc."; the term "acquired preferred shares, etc." in paragraph (6) of the Article will be deemed to be "acquired specified preferred shares, etc."; the term "subscription for preferred shares, etc." in item (i) of the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "subscription for specified preferred shares, etc."; the term "preferred shares, etc. (including the following) and other shares, etc. specified by Cabinet Order" in the same item will be deemed to be replaced with "specified preferred shares, etc. (meaning preferred shares, etc., specified subordinated bonds prescribed in Article 126-22, paragraph (6), item (i), equity investments of those other than stock companies and the cooperative financial institutions prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Preferred Equity Investment Act, or claims in relation to funds) (including the following in the case of preferred shares, etc., and including equivalents of the following in the case of specified subordinated bonds prescribed in the item, equity investments of those other than stock companies and the cooperative financial institutions prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Preferred Equity Investment Act, or claims in relation to funds)"; the term "transfer of insured deposits" in Article 67 will be deemed to be replaced with "specified assumption of obligations prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (2), item (iv)"; the term "or Rokinren Bank" in paragraph (2) of the Article will be deemed to be replaced with ", Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc."; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; the term "if the DICJ is to provide financial assistance for a merger, etc. in relation to the confirmation of eligibility, etc." in Article 68 will be deemed to be replaced with "if the additional specified financial assistance is to be provided"; the term "including those that will be newly established and, in the case of a bank holding company, etc., limited to those specified in Article 2, paragraph (5), item (i) or (iii)" in Article 68-2, paragraph (2) will be deemed to be replaced with "including those that will be newly established"; the term "Minister of Finance" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry"; the term "Minister of Finance" in paragraph (3) of the Article will be deemed to be replaced with "Minister of Finance (if the issuing assuming financial institution, etc. is a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if the issuing assuming financial institution, etc. is a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry)"; the term "financial institution or bank holding company, etc. (limited to those specified in Article 2, paragraph (5), items (i) and (iii))" in Article 68-3, paragraph (2) will be deemed to be replaced with "financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc."; the term "or Rokinren Bank" in paragraph (3) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with ", Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc."; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in the paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

(5)If a resolution by the board prescribed in Article 64, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph is to be deliberated with respect to the additional specified financial assistance in relation to the application prescribed in paragraph (1) or (2) or Article 59-2, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph, when the board finds that, in light of the financial conditions of the specified failed financial institution, etc., the additional specified financial assistance does not exceed the scope necessary to carry out the specified merger, etc. in relation to the relevant additional specified financial assistance, it may adopt a resolution to provide the additional specified financial assistance.

Article 126-33The provisions of Article 78 and Article 93 of the Bankruptcy Act, Article 41, Article 42, Article 54, paragraphs (2) and (4), Article 66, and Article 81 of the Civil Rehabilitation Act, Article 32, Article 35, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 45, Article 46, and Article 72 of the Corporate Reorganization Act, Article 23, Article 25 (excluding paragraph (1)), Article 32, Article 33, Article 45, Article 188, Article 190 (excluding paragraph (1)), Article 197, Article 198, and Article 211 of the Act on Special Measures for the Reorganization Proceedings of Financial Institutions, Article 527, paragraph (1), Article 535, Article 536, and Article 896 of the Companies Act, and Article 31, Article 34, Article 35, Article 53, and Article 55, paragraph (1) of the Act on Recognition of and Assistance for Foreign Insolvency Proceedings do not apply to a specified merger, etc. in relation to specified confirmation of eligibility, etc.

Article 126-34(1)The Prime Minister may, when finding it necessary to use a specified bridge financial institution, etc. for the succession of obligations, etc. (meaning succession of obligations, etc. (meaning the business or obligations in relation to specified assumption of business, etc.; the same applies hereinafter) by a specified bridge financial institution, etc. through assumption of business, assumption of obligations, a merger, or a company split (hereinafter referred to as "specified assumption of business, etc."), and smooth implementation of payment, etc., of obligations, etc. (meaning the provisional maintaining and continuation of the business or payment of the obligations; the same applies hereinafter)) of a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring, make the following decisions:

(2)The Prime Minister may, when finding it necessary, rescind or modify a decision under the preceding paragraph.

(3)In this Chapter, the terms set forth in the following items have the meanings specified respectively in those items:

(4)A specified bridge company will be deemed to be a financial institution, etc. with regard to application of the provisions of Article 126-28, Article 126-30, and Article 59-2, Article 60, Article 62 (excluding paragraph (1)), and Article 64 (excluding paragraph (2)) through Article 68-4 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 126-31, Article 126-32 (excluding paragraph (4)), and Article 59-2, Article 64 (excluding paragraph (2)), Article 64-2, and Articles 67 through 68-4 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 126-32, paragraph (4), and Article 126-28, paragraphs (7) and (8), and Article 133-2 (including the penal provisions in relation to these provisions).

Article 126-35(1)When a decision prescribed in paragraph (1), item (i) of the preceding Article is made under paragraph (1) or (2) of the preceding Article, the DICJ must, following a resolution by the board on the details of contribution in relation to the relevant decision, become the incorporator of a stock company that is to become a specified bridge financial institution, etc., and provide contribution for the incorporation of the stock company as a subsidiary company of the DICJ.

(2)Beyond the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, any contribution by the DICJ to the specified bridge financial institution, etc. must require a resolution by the board.

(3)Upon providing the contribution prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs, the DICJ must promptly report the details thereof to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.

Article 126-36(1)The DICJ must manage the specified bridge financial institution, etc. to ensure the proper performance of the following:

(2)The DICJ must prepare guidelines for the payment, etc. of obligations, etc. of a specified bridge financial institution, etc. in accordance with the following and, following approval from the Prime Minister, make the guidelines public:

(3)The DICJ may give instructions and advice to a specified bridge financial institution, etc., which are necessary for its management.

Article 126-37The provisions of Articles 95 through 100 and Article 135 (excluding paragraphs (1) and (4)) apply mutatis mutandis to a specified bridge financial institution, etc. In this case, the term "for which confirmation has been rendered under Article 93, paragraph (2)" in Article 95 will be deemed to be replaced with "in relation to the specified assumption of business, etc. prescribed in Article 126-34, paragraph (1)"; the term "business" in Article 96, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "obligations, etc. (meaning the obligations, etc. prescribed in Article 126-34, paragraph (1))"; the term "order to manage of the first financial institution under management" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "designation of special monitoring (meaning the designation of special monitoring prescribed in Article 126-3, paragraph (2)) for the first financial institution, etc. under special monitoring (meaning the financial institution, etc. under special monitoring prescribed in the same paragraph)"; the term "contracted bridge bank" in Article 97, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "contracted specified bridge financial institution, etc."; the term "any right ... in the following paragraph) (limited to those that have been confirmed as appropriate assets to be held by the relevant bridge bank under Article 93, paragraph (2))" in Article 135, paragraph (2) will be deemed to be replaced with "any right ... in the following paragraph)"; the term "any right on land acquired through the assumption of business, etc. based on decision (limited to those that have been confirmed as appropriate assets to be held by the relevant bridge bank under Article 93, paragraph (2))" in Article 135, paragraph (3) will be deemed to be replaced with "any right on land acquired through the assumption of business, etc. based on decision"; and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 126-38(1)A financial institution, etc. that is undertaking a specified re-succession and is not a specified bridge financial institution, etc. (hereinafter referred to as "specified re-succeeding financial institution, etc." in this Article), or a specified holding company, etc. undertaking a specified re-succession and is not a specified bridge financial institution, etc. (hereinafter referred to as a "specified re-succeeding specified holding company, etc." in this Article) may apply to have the DICJ provide the specified financial assistance (limited to that specified in Article 126-28, paragraph (1), item (iii), (vi), or (vii)) to support the specified re-succession.

(2)The term "specified re-succession" as used in the preceding paragraph means the following:

(3)The purchase of assets prescribed in paragraph (1) will be conducted with respect to the assets prescribed in each of the following items according to the category of the specified re-succession specified in each respective item:

(4)The collateralization of damage prescribed in paragraph (1) will be conducted with respect to loan claims that are the assets prescribed in each item of the preceding paragraph according to the category of the specified re-succession specified in each respective item of the preceding paragraph.

(5)The provisions of Article 126-28, paragraphs (4), (7), and (8), and Article 126-29, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to an application under paragraph (1); and the provisions of paragraphs (2) through (4) and paragraphs (6) through (8) of the Article apply mutatis mutandis to the confirmation set forth in paragraph (1) of the Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph. In this case, the term "provided to the specified assuming financial institution, etc." in Article 126-28, paragraph (4) will be deemed to be replaced with "provided to the specified re-succeeding financial institution, etc. (meaning the specified re-succeeding financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-38, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter)"; the term "specified holding company, etc." in paragraph (7) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "specified re-succeeding specified holding company, etc. (meaning the specified re-succeeding specified holding company, etc. prescribed in Article 126-38, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter); the term "a specified merger, etc. in relation to" in Article 126-29, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "a specified re-succession (meaning the specified re-succession prescribed in Article 126-38, paragraph (2); the same applies hereinafter) in relation to"; the term "Article 126-31, a specified failed financial institution, etc." in the paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "Article 126-31, a specified bridge financial institution, etc. (meaning the specified bridge financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-34, paragraph (3), item (v); the same applies hereinafter)"; and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

(6)Even in cases where no application is made under Article 126-29, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister may, when finding that the business or obligations of a specified bridge financial institution, etc. satisfy the requirements specified in paragraph (3), item (iii) of the Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph, provide mediation in writing with regard to the specified re-succession (excluding the merger specified in paragraph (2), item (ii) and limited to those that contribute to the orderly resolution of assets and liabilities of a financial institution, etc. under special monitoring which the relevant specified bridge financial institution, etc. has succeeded to and for which the specified financial assistance by the DICJ is indispensable) between the relevant specified bridge financial institution, etc. and another financial institution, etc. or the specified bridge financial institution, etc. and a specified holding company, etc.

(7)The provisions of Article 62, paragraphs (2) and (4) through (6) apply mutatis mutandis to the mediation prescribed in the preceding paragraph; the provisions of Article 64 (excluding paragraph (2)) and Article 64-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the application under paragraph (1); the provisions of Article 64-3, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to a specified bridge financial institution whose shares set forth in paragraph (2), item (iv) are acquired by a specified re-succeeding financial institution, etc. or a specified re-succeeding specified holding company, etc.; the provisions of Article 64-3, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to a specified re-succeeding financial institution, etc., a specified re-succeeding specified holding company, etc., or a financial institution, etc. established by the merger set forth in paragraph (2), item (ii) or the incorporation-type company split prescribed in item (vi) of the same paragraph to which the DICJ provides the specified financial assistance (limited to those in relation to subscription for subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options) or specified subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options)); the provisions of Article 65 and Article 66 apply mutatis mutandis to the financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc. that has received the confirmation prescribed in Article 126-29, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (5) or that has received the mediation prescribed in the preceding paragraph; the provisions of Article 67 apply mutatis mutandis to the specified re-succeeding financial institution, etc.; the provisions of Article 68 apply mutatis mutandis to the specified financial assistance provided by the DICJ for specified re-succession; the provisions of Article 68-2 and Article 68-3 apply mutatis mutandis to a re-succeeding financial institution, etc. (meaning a specified re-succeeding financial institution, etc. (including a financial institution, etc. established by the merger or incorporation-type company split in relation to the relevant subscription for specified preferred shares, etc.) or a specified re-succeeding specified holding company, etc. (including the company prescribed in Article 68-2, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph if an approval has been obtained under Article 68-2, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph, and the bridge financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 68-3, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph if an approval has been obtained under Article 68-3, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to this paragraph); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) that has received the relevant specified financial assistance (limited to those in relation to the subscription for specified preferred shares, etc.; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph); and the provisions of Article 68-4 apply mutatis mutandis to special controlling shareholders of a re-succeeding financial institution, etc. to which the DICJ has provided the relevant specified financial assistance and which has issued shares that are acquired specified preferred shares, etc. (meaning the acquired specified preferred shares, etc. prescribed in Article 64-2, paragraph (6) as applied mutatis mutandis by replacing the terms pursuant to this paragraph) actually held by the DICJ or subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options) or specified subordinated bonds (limited to those with share options). In this case, the term "financial institution or bank holding company, etc." in Article 62, paragraph (2) will be deemed to be replaced with "financial institution, etc. (meaning the financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2); the same applies hereinafter) or specified holding company, etc. (meaning the specified holding company, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter)"; the term "paragraphs (4) through (7) of the preceding Article" in paragraph (4) of the Article will be deemed to be replaced with "Article 126-29, paragraphs (4), (6), and (7) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 126-38, paragraph (5)"; the term "failed financial institution or a financial institution recognized as having a high probability of becoming a failed financial institution" in paragraph (5) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "specified bridge financial institution, etc. (meaning the specified bridge financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-34, paragraph (3), item (v))"; the term "financial assistance" in Article 64, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "specified financial assistance (meaning those set forth in Article 126-28, paragraph (1), item (iii), (vi), or (vii); the same applies hereinafter)"; the term "a merger, etc. to which a labor bank or Rokinren Bank is a party" in paragraph (3) of the Article will be deemed to be replaced with "specified re-succession (meaning the specified re-succession prescribed in Article 126-38, paragraph (2); the same applies hereinafter) to which a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc. (meaning the subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2), item (i); the same applies hereinafter) is a party"; the term "a merger, etc. to which the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. is a party" in the paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "specified re-succession to which the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank (the subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank prescribed in the item; the same applies hereinafter) is a party"; the term "subscription for preferred shares, etc." in Article 64-2, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "subscription for specified preferred shares, etc. (meaning the subscription for specified preferred shares, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (3); the same applies hereinafter"; the term "assuming financial institution or assuming bank holding company, etc. (excluding the companies specified in Article 2, paragraph (5), item (v)" in the paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "specified re-succeeding financial institution, etc. (meaning the specified re-succeeding financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-38, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter) or specified re-succeeding specified holding company, etc. (meaning the specified re-succeeding specified holding company, etc. prescribed in the paragraph"; the term "adequacy of equity capital" in paragraph (2) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "adequacy of equity capital or otherwise improve the financial conditions"; the term "or federation of labor banks" in paragraph (3) of the Article will be deemed to be replaced with ", a federation of labor banks, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc."; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; the term "acquired preferred shares, etc. or acquired loan claims" in paragraph (5) of the Article will be deemed to be replaced with "acquired specified preferred shares, etc. or acquired specified loan claims"; the term "subscription for preferred shares, etc." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "subscription for specified preferred shares, etc."; the term "acquired preferred shares, etc." in paragraph (6) of the same Article will be deemed to be "acquired specified preferred shares, etc."; the term "subscription for preferred shares, etc." in item (i) of the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "subscription for specified preferred shares, etc."; the term " preferred shares, etc. (including the following) and other shares, etc. specified by Cabinet Order" in the same item will be deemed to be replaced with "specified preferred shares, etc. (meaning preferred shares, etc., specified subordinated bonds prescribed in Article 126-22, paragraph (6), item (i), equity investments of those other than stock companies and the cooperative financial institutions prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Preferred Equity Investment Act, or claims in relation to funds) (including the following in the case of preferred shares, etc., and including equivalents of the following in the case of specified subordinated bonds prescribed in the same item, equity investments of those other than stock companies and the cooperative financial institutions prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Preferred Equity Investment Act, or claims in relation to funds)"; the term "or Rokinren Bank" in Article 65 will be deemed to be replaced with ", Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc."; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; the term "a merger, transfer of business, etc., transfer of insured deposits" in Article 66, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "a merger, transfer of business, etc., specified assumption of obligations (meaning the specified assumption of obligations prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (2), item (iv); the same applies hereinafter)"; the term "a merger, transfer of business, etc., transfer of insured deposits" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "a merger, transfer of business, etc., specified assumption of obligations"; the term "or Rokinren Bank" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with ", Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc."; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; the term "to that effect. The same applies when, if a resolution of shareholders meeting, etc. or consent of all shareholders or all class shareholders is required for share exchange under the provisions of this Act, the Companies Act, or the articles of incorporation, a bank holding company, etc. that has received the confirmation of eligibility, etc. has obtained or failed to obtain the resolution or consent for share exchange in relation to the relevant confirmation of eligibility, etc." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "to that effect."; the term "a bank, etc., bank holding company, etc., or the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in paragraph (2) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "a financial institution, etc. that is a stock company, or specified holding company, etc."; the term "a general meeting or general meeting of representatives" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "a general meeting or general meeting of representatives, in the case of a mutual company prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Insurance Business Act, a general meeting of members or general meeting of representatives, and in the case of a financial institution, etc. other than these or specified holding company, etc., a body that decides its financial and operational or business policies"; the term "or federation of labor banks" in paragraph (3) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with ", a federation of labor banks, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc."; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; the term "paragraph (1) of the Act on Financial Institutions' Merger and Conversion" in the same item will be deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (1) of the Act on Financial Institutions' Merger and Conversion, or the principal sentence of Article 165-11, paragraph (1) of the Insurance Business Act"; the term "paragraph (2) of the Act on Financial Institutions' Merger and Conversion" in the same item will be deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (2) of the Act on Financial Institutions' Merger and Conversion, or Article 165-11, paragraph (2) of the Insurance Business Act"; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in paragraph (4) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; the term "assumption of business, transfer of insured deposits" in Article 67 will be deemed to be replaced with "assumption of business"; the term "or federation of labor banks" in paragraph (2) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with ", Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc."; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; the term "issuing assuming financial institution, etc." in Article 68-2 will be deemed to be replaced with "issuing specified re-succeeding financial institution, etc."; the term "including those that will be newly established and, in the case of a bank holding company, etc., limited to those specified in Article 2, paragraph (5), item (i) or (iii)" in Article 68-2, paragraph (2) will be deemed to be replaced with "including those that will be newly established"; the term "Minister of Finance" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry"; the term "Minister of Finance" in paragraph (3) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "Minister of Finance (if the issuing specified re-succeeding financial institution, etc. is a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if the issuing specified re-succeeding financial institution, etc. is a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry)"; the term "financial institution or bank holding company, etc. (limited to those specified in Article 2, paragraph (5), items (i) and (iii))" in Article 68-3, paragraph (2) will be deemed to be replaced with "financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc."; the term "or Rokinren Bank" in paragraph (3) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with ", Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc."; the term "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd." in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank"; and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 126-39(1)When public notice is given under Article 123, paragraph (4) (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 124, paragraph (3)), a financial institution, etc. must, during the period specified in the relevant public notice, pay contributions (hereinafter referred to as "specified contributions") to the DICJ to cover the costs incurred in carrying out the crisis management operations (limited to those in relation to a financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation or a specified bridge financial institution, etc.).

(2)If public notice is given under the preceding paragraph, a financial institution, etc. is to submit documents specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance and pay specified contributions to the DICJ by the last day of each business year included in the period specified in the relevant public notice. In this case, if there is a bank holding company, long term credit bank holding company, insurance holding company, or designated parent company which has the relevant financial institution, etc. as a subsidiary, etc. of the financial institution, etc., the relevant financial institution, etc. is to submit the relevant documents and pay the specified contributions through the entities, and if there is no bank holding company, long term credit bank holding company, insurance holding company, or designated parent company which has the relevant financial institution, etc. as a subsidiary, etc. of the financial institution, etc. but there is a financial institution, etc. that has the relevant financial institution, etc. as a subsidiary, etc. of the financial institution, etc., the relevant financial institution, etc. is to submit the relevant documents and pay the specified contributions through the financial institution, etc. that has the relevant financial institution, etc. as a subsidiary, etc. of the financial institution, etc. which is specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance.

(3)The amount of specified contributions prescribed in paragraph (1) will be calculated for each financial institution, etc. by dividing by twelve the total amount of its liabilities outstanding on the last day of the business year immediately preceding the business year that includes the due date for payment of the relevant specified contributions (excluding those specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance), multiplying the resulting amount by the number of months in the business year that includes the due date for payment of the relevant specified contributions, and multiplying the resulting amount by the contribution rate specified under Article 123, paragraph (2).

(4)Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the amount of specified contributions prescribed in paragraph (1) with regard to a paying financial institution (meaning a bank holding company, long term credit bank holding company, insurance holding company, or designated parent company, or a financial institution, etc. which has a financial institution, etc. as a subsidiary, etc. of the financial institution, etc. that is specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance as set forth in paragraph (2); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) and a subsidiary company of the relevant paying financial institution, and any other entity specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance as a corporation of which management is controlled by the paying financial institution (hereinafter referred to as the "paying financial institution, etc.") will be calculated for each financial institution, etc. that is a paying financial institution by dividing by twelve the amount obtained by multiplying the total amount of its liabilities outstanding on the balance sheet prepared with regard to the relevant paying financial institution, etc. on a consolidated basis pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance on the last day of the business year immediately preceding the business year that includes the due date for payment of the relevant specified contributions (excluding the liabilities specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance) (hereinafter referred to as the "consolidated total amount of liabilities" in this paragraph) by the rate specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance as the rate of the amount of liabilities of each the relevant financial institution, etc. to the consolidated total amount of liabilities, multiplying the resulting amount by the number of months in the business year that includes the due date for payment of the relevant specified contributions, and multiplying the resulting amount by the contribution rate specified under Article 123, paragraph (2).

(5)The provisions of Article 50, paragraph (2) and Article 52 apply mutatis mutandis to the specified contributions set forth in paragraph (1). In this case, the term "exempt a financial institution" in Article 50, paragraph (2) will be deemed to be replaced with "exempt a financial institution, etc. (meaning the financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2); the same applies hereinafter); the term "confirmation of eligibility, etc. prescribed in Article 65" in item (ii) of the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "confirmation of eligibility, etc. prescribed in Article 65 or specified confirmation of eligibility, etc. prescribed in Article 126-31"; the term "failed financial institution" in the same item will be deemed to be replaced with "failed financial institution or the specified failed financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (1) in relation to the relevant specified confirmation of eligibility, etc."; the term "an order to manage prescribed in Article 74, paragraph (1)" in item (iii) of the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "an order to manage prescribed in Article 74, paragraph (1) or an order for specified management prescribed in Article 126-5, paragraph (1)"; the term "financial institution under management in relation to the order to manage" in the same item will be deemed to be replaced with "financial institution under management in relation to the order to manage or the financial institution, etc. in relation to the relevant order for specified management"; and the term "financial institution" in Article 52, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be "financial institution, etc."; and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 127(1)The provisions of Article 69-3 apply mutatis mutandis to cases where an application is received from a person specified in each item of Article 69-3, paragraph (1) for the loan of funds necessary for refunding the covered deposits, etc. (limited to the repayment for the covered deposits, etc. corresponding to the amount of insurance proceeds calculated under the insurance claim calculation provisions). In this case, the term "in relation to the relevant settlement obligations calculated under Article 54-2, paragraph (1) and Article 54, paragraph (3) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-2, paragraph (2)" in Article 69-3, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "in relation to the relevant covered deposits, etc. calculated under the insurance claim calculation provisions".

(2)The DICJ may bear the costs required for the affairs in relation to the refund of covered deposits, etc. prescribed in the preceding paragraph that is made by the person set forth in the items of Article 69-3, paragraph (1).

Article 127-2(1)If the DICJ receives from any of the following persons an application for a loan of funds necessary for the repayment of the types of obligations that are found likely to cause severe disruption to the financial system in Japan due to their default, the DICJ may, when it finds it necessary, and following a resolution of the board, decide to provide the loan in relation to the relevant application to the extent necessary:

(2)The provisions of Article 64, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the cases where a decision is made under the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of Article 64, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the cases where a decision to provide a loan is made under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "a merger, etc. to which a labor bank or Rokinren Bank is a party" in paragraph (3) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2), item (i)"; the term "a merger, etc. to which the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. is a party" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank prescribed in the same item"; and the term "a financial institution or bank holding company, etc." in paragraph (4) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "a financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2)".

(3)The loan provided under paragraph (1) to a person specified in each of the following items will, in relation to creditors other than the DICJ in bankruptcy proceedings (if the financial institution, etc. is a foreign bank branch, bankruptcy proceedings of the foreign bank in relation to the relevant foreign bank branch), reorganization proceedings (if the financial institution, etc. is a foreign bank branch, reorganization proceedings of the foreign bank in relation to the relevant foreign bank branch), rehabilitation proceedings (if the financial institution, etc. is a foreign bank branch, rehabilitation proceedings of the foreign bank in relation to the relevant foreign bank branch; the same applies in item (iii)) or special liquidation proceedings (if the financial institution, etc. is a foreign company, a foreign bank branch, or a foreign insurance company, etc., liquidation proceedings under Article 822 of the Companies Act (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 213 of the Insurance Business Act), Article 51 of the Banking Act, or Article 212 of the Insurance Business Act) in relation to the relevant financial institution, etc. be deemed to be provided prior to the act prescribed in each respective item:

Article 127-3The provisions of Article 69-4, paragraphs (3) through (5) apply mutatis mutandis to cases where a decision has been made to make the loan of funds under Article 69-3, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 127, paragraph (1). In this case, the term "the repayment of the settlement obligations prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article" in Article 69-4, paragraph (3) will be deemed to be replaced with "refunding the covered deposits, etc. prescribed in Article 127, paragraph (1)" the terms "the types of the settlement obligations to be repaid", "repayment" and "repaid" in Article 69-4, paragraphs (4) and (5) will be deemed to be replaced with "the types of the covered deposits, etc. to be returned," "refund" and "refunded", respectively.

Article 127-4(1)If a decision has been made to loan funds under Article 127-2, paragraph (1) to a financial institution, etc. for which a ruling for the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings (if the financial institution, etc. is a foreign bank branch, bankruptcy proceedings of the foreign bank in relation to the relevant foreign bank branch), a ruling for the commencement of reorganization proceedings (if the financial institution, etc. is a foreign bank branch, reorganization proceedings of the foreign bank in relation to the relevant foreign bank branch), or a ruling for the commencement of rehabilitation proceedings (if the financial institution, etc. is a foreign bank branch, rehabilitation proceedings of the foreign bank in relation to the relevant foreign bank branch) has been given, the court may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 100, paragraph (1) of the Bankruptcy Act, Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Corporate Reorganization Act (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Articles 34 and 199 of the Act on Special Measures for the Reorganization Proceedings of Financial Institutions), and Article 85, paragraph (1) of the Civil Rehabilitation Act, in response to a petition filed by a bankruptcy trustee, a trustee in reorganization proceedings, or a rehabilitation debtor, etc. prescribed in Article 2, item (ii) of the same Act, grant permission for the repayment of the types of obligations that are found likely to cause severe disruption to the financial system in Japan by their default under Article 127-2, paragraph (1) or any other act for extinguishing the relevant obligations (hereinafter referred to as "repayment" in this Article).

(2)The court must, upon granting the permission under the preceding paragraph, specify the types of obligations subject to the repayment, limit of the amount of repayment, and period of repayment (the last day of the relevant period must precede the last date of the period for filing proofs of claims).

(3)When specifying the types of obligations subject to the repayment, limit of the amount of repayment, and period of repayment under the preceding paragraph, the court must hear the opinion of the DICJ in advance.

Article 127-5The provisions of Article 69-4, paragraphs (3) through (5) apply mutatis mutandis to the cases where a decision has been made to loan funds under Article 127-2, paragraph (1) to a specified failed financial institution, etc. that has become subject to an order for commencement of special liquidation or an order for commencement of liquidation under Article 822, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act or to a specified failed financial institution, etc. for which liquidation has been commenced pursuant to Article 51, paragraph (1) of the Banking Act or Article 212, paragraph (1) of the Insurance Business Act. In this case, the term "the settlement obligations prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article" in Article 69-4, paragraph (3) will be deemed to be replaced with "the types of obligations that are found likely to cause severe disruption to the financial system in Japan by their default under Article 127-2, paragraph (1)"; the term "to be repaid" in paragraph (4) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "subject to the repayment or any other act for extinguishing the relevant obligations (hereinafter referred to as "repayment" in this Article"); and the term "the settlement obligations" in the same paragraph and paragraph (5) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "the obligations"; and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 128The provisions of Article 69-3 (excluding paragraphs (3) and (4)) apply mutatis mutandis to cases where an application is received from a person specified in each item of Article 69-3, paragraph (1) (in the case of any person specified in Article 69-3, paragraph (1), item (i), limited to the time after a petition is filed for the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings, commencement of reorganization proceedings or commencement of rehabilitation proceedings or after an order for commencement of special liquidation is issued, and in the case of any person specified items (ii) through (viii) of the same paragraph, excluding a financial institution, etc. subject to specified confirmation) for the loan of funds necessary to prevent a decline in the value of loan claims or other assets held by the person. In this case, the term "up to the total amount of insurance proceeds in relation to the relevant settlement obligations calculated under Article 54-2, paragraph (1) and Article 54, paragraph (3) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-2, paragraph (2)" in Article 69-3, paragraph (1) will be deemed to be replaced with "within the limit necessary".

Article 128-2(1)If an application is received from any of the following persons (in the case of any person specified in item (i), limited to the time after a petition is filed for the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings (if the person specified in the same item is a foreign bank branch, commencement of bankruptcy proceedings of the foreign bank in relation to the relevant foreign bank branch), commencement of reorganization proceedings (if the person specified in the same item is a foreign bank branch, commencement of reorganization proceedings of the foreign bank in relation to the relevant foreign bank branch), or commencement of rehabilitation proceedings (if the person specified in the same item is a foreign bank branch, commencement of rehabilitation proceedings of the foreign bank in relation to the relevant foreign bank branch) or after an order for commencement of special liquidation (if the person specified in the same item is a foreign company, a foreign bank branch, or a foreign insurance company, etc., the order for commencement of liquidation proceedings under Article 822, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act or commencement of liquidation under Article 51, paragraph (1) of the Banking Act or Article 212, paragraph (1) of the Insurance Business Act) is issued) for the loan of funds necessary to prevent a decline in the value of loan claims or other assets held by the person, the DICJ may, when it finds it necessary, and following a resolution of the board, decide to provide the loan in relation to the relevant application to the extent necessary:

(2)The provisions of Article 64, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the cases where a decision is made under the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of Article 64, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the cases where a decision to provide a loan is made under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "a merger, etc. to which a labor bank or Rokinren Bank is a party" in paragraph (3) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc. prescribed in Article 126-2, paragraph (2), item (i)"; and the term "a merger, etc. to which the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. is a party" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank prescribed in the same item"; and any other necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 128-3(1)If the DICJ has made a decision to pay insurance proceeds in relation to a category-one insured event or a category-two insured event has occurred, the DICJ may purchase assets held by the financial institution subject to these insured events (including a person that was a financial institution at the time of the occurrence of these insured events).

(2)If the DICJ purchases assets under the preceding paragraph, it must comply with standards prescribed and publicly announced in advance by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.

(3)If the DICJ receives an application for the purchase of assets under paragraph (1) from a financial institution prescribed in paragraph (1), or an announcement or proposal of the implementation of the bidding process for the purchase of assets is made and the DICJ intends to purchase the assets subject to the bidding process, following a resolution of the board, the DICJ must decide without delay whether or not to carry out the purchase of assets.

(4)Upon making a decision under the preceding paragraph, the DICJ must immediately report matters in relation to the decision to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.

(5)Upon making a decision to purchase assets under paragraph (3), the DICJ is to conclude a contract for the purchase of assets with the financial institution prescribed in paragraph (1) in relation to the decision.

(6)If the DICJ intends to conclude the contract under the preceding paragraph with the financial institution prescribed in paragraph (1), it must obtain the authorization of the Prime Minister.

Article 129(1)Beyond cases prescribed in Section 4 of Chapter III, the preceding Chapter, and the preceding Article, the DICJ may purchase assets held by a contracted bridge bank, bank under special crisis management, financial institution, etc. under special monitoring, or contracted specified bridge financial institution, etc.

(2)If the DICJ purchases assets under the preceding paragraph, it must comply with standards prescribed and publicly announced in advance by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.

(3)Upon receiving an application under paragraph (1) for the purchase of assets from a contracted bridge bank, bank under special crisis management, financial institution, etc. under special monitoring, or contracted specified bridge financial institution, etc., the DICJ must, following a resolution of the board, decide without delay whether or not to carry out the purchase of assets in relation to the relevant application.

(4)Upon making a decision under the preceding paragraph, the DICJ must immediately report matters in relation to the decision to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.

(5)Upon making a decision to purchase assets under paragraph (3), the DICJ is to conclude a contract for the purchase of assets with the relevant contracted bridge bank, bank under special crisis management, financial institution, etc. under special monitoring, or contracted specified bridge financial institution, etc.

Article 130(1)Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 45 of the Shinkin Bank Act, Article 49 of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Cooperatives Act, and Article 49 of the Labor Bank Act, a general meeting of a Shinkin bank, etc. that has received the confirmation of eligibility, etc. or specified confirmation of eligibility, etc. may be held without the procedures of calling if all members (in the case of a labor bank, excluding individual members prescribed in Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Labor Bank Act) or all association members consent, for the purpose of deliberating a resolution to approve a transfer of business, etc. and any amendment to the articles of incorporation necessary to carry out the transfer of business, etc.

(2)The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to a general meeting of representatives for the purpose of deliberating a resolution to approve the matters prescribed in the preceding paragraph. In this case, the terms "all members (in the case of a labor bank, excluding individual members prescribed in Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Labor Bank Act) or all association members" and "Article 45 of the Shinkin Bank Act, Article 49 of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Cooperatives Act, and Article 49 of the Labor Bank Act" in the same paragraph will be deemed to be replaced with "all representatives" and "Article 45 of the Shinkin Bank Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 49, paragraph (5) of the Act, Article 49 of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Cooperatives Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 55, paragraph (6) of the same Act, and Article 49 of the Labor Bank Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 55, paragraph (5) of the same Act", respectively.

Article 131(1)When a decision to provide financial assistance is made under Article 64, paragraph (1) for the purpose of supporting the transfer of business, etc. prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (2), item (iii) or a transfer of insured deposits, or when a decision to provide the specified financial assistance is made under Article 64, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 126-31 for the purpose of supporting the transfer of business, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (2), item (iii) or specified assumption of obligations, the assumption of obligations in relation to specified transfer of business, etc. (meaning the transfer of business, etc. prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (2), item (iii) or a transfer of insured deposits or the transfer of business, etc. prescribed in Article 126-28, paragraph (2), item (iii) or specified assumption of obligations, and including any transfer of assets associated therewith; hereinafter the same applies in this Article and the following Article) and transfer of the contractual status may be carried out without consent from creditors in relation to obligations to be assumed by an assuming financial institution or a specified assuming financial institution, etc. through the relevant specified transfer of business, etc. or the other party to the contract in relation to the contractual status which an assuming financial institution or a specified assuming financial institution, etc. is to receive.

(2)The provisions of Article 466, paragraph (3) and Article 466-5, paragraph (1) of the Civil Code do not apply to the transfer of claims if the manifestation of intention to restrict the transfer (meaning the manifestation of intention to restrict the transfer prescribed in Article 466, paragraph (2) of the same Code; the same applies in paragraphs (4) and (7)) has been made for the specified transfer of business, etc. in relation to a decision made under the preceding paragraph.

(3)The provisions of Article 34 and Article 35 of the Banking Act (including cases where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 17 of the Long-Term Credit Bank Act, Article 89, paragraph (1) of the Shinkin Bank Act, Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act on Financial Business by Cooperatives, and Article 94, paragraph (1) of the Labor Bank Act) and Article 50-2, paragraph (6) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act do not apply to the specified transfer of business, etc. in relation to a decision made under paragraph (1).

(4)Upon executing the specified transfer of business, etc. in relation to a decision made under paragraph (1), the failed financial institution and the assuming financial institution or the specified failed financial institution, etc. and the specified assuming financial institution, etc. must, within two weeks of the day of the relevant execution, give public notice explaining the outline of the content of the relevant specified transfer of business, etc. and stating that any creditors, obligors in relation to claims for which the manifestation of intention to restrict the transfer has been made, and the other party to the contract in relation to the contractual status who have any objection thereto should state the objection within a specified period of time, and must also give this notice to each of the individual known creditors other than the depositors, etc. and other creditors specified by Cabinet Order, obligors in relation to claims for which the manifestation of intention to restrict the transfer has been made, and the other party to the contract in relation to the contractual status.

(5)The period under the preceding paragraph cannot be less than one month.

(6)Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (4), if a failed financial institution and assuming financial institution or the specified failed financial institution, etc. and specified assuming financial institution, etc. give public notice under that paragraph by means of a public notice as prescribed in the articles of incorporation (in the case of a foreign company, foreign bank branch, or foreign insurance company, etc., the method of public notice under Article 939, paragraph (2) or (4) of the Companies Act, Article 49-2, paragraph (1) of the Banking Act, or Article 217, paragraph (1) or (4) of the Insurance Business Act; the same applies hereinafter), beyond the Official Gazette, the failed financial institution and assuming financial institution or the specified failed financial institution, etc. and specified assuming financial institution, etc. will not be required to give separate notices under the provisions of paragraph (4).

(7)If a creditor in relation to obligations that are to be assumed by an assuming financial institution or a specified assuming financial institution, etc. through the specified transfer of business, etc. in relation to a decision made under paragraph (1), obligors in relation to claims for which the manifestation of intention to restrict the transfer has been made that is to be received by an assuming financial institution or a specified assuming financial institution, etc., and the other party to the contract in relation to contractual status that is to be received by an assuming financial institution or a specified assuming financial institution, etc. (hereinafter referred to as the "transferred creditors, etc." in this paragraph) state objections within the period under paragraph (4), the assumption of obligations in relation to the specified transfer of business, etc., transfer of claims for which the manifestation of intention to restrict the transfer has been made, and transfer of contractual status (hereinafter referred to as the "assumption of obligations, etc." in this paragraph) in relation to the relevant transferred creditors, etc. will lose its effect retroactively as of the time of the relevant assumption of obligations, etc.; provided, however, that this does not prejudice the rights of a third party.

(8)If creditors of a failed financial institution (limited to creditors in relation to the obligations of the failed financial institution other than those assumed by the assuming financial institution through the transfer of business, etc. set forth in Article 59, paragraph (2), item (iii) or the transfer of insured deposits prescribed in paragraph (1)) or creditors of a specified failed financial institution, etc. (limited to creditors in relation to the obligations of a specified failed financial institution, etc. other than those assumed by the specified assuming financial institution, etc. through the transfer of business, etc. set forth in Article 126-28, paragraph (2), item (iii) or the specified assumption of obligations prescribed in paragraph (1)) state objections within the period under paragraph (4), when any amount is owed to creditors of the failed financial institution or creditors of the specified failed financial institution, etc. with respect to their claims that can no longer be satisfied due to the specified transfer of business, etc. prescribed in paragraph (1), the creditors of the failed financial institution or creditors of the specified failed financial institution, etc. may claim the payment of the relevant amount from the assuming financial institution or the specified assuming financial institution, etc.

(9)If creditors of an assuming financial institution (limited to creditors in relation to the obligations of the assuming financial institution other than those assumed by the assuming financial institution through the transfer of business, etc. set forth in Article 59, paragraph (2), item (iii) or the transfer of insured deposits prescribed in paragraph (1)) or creditors of a specified assuming financial institution, etc. (limited to creditors in relation to the obligations of specified assuming financial institution, etc. other than those assumed by the specified assuming financial institution, etc. through the transfer of business, etc. set forth in Article 126-28, paragraph (2), item (iii) or the specified assumption of obligations prescribed in paragraph (1)) state objections within the period under paragraph (4), the assuming financial institution or specified assuming financial institution, etc. must make payment or provide equivalent security to the creditors or entrust equivalent assets to a trust company or financial institutions that conducts trust business for the purpose of ensuring that the creditors receive the payment; provided, however, that this does not apply when the specified transfer of business, etc. is unlikely to be detrimental to the creditors of the assuming financial institution or creditors of the specified assuming financial institution, etc.

Article 131-2(1)The transfer of the contractual status (limited to the transfer in relation to a contract for deposits, etc. that involves a modification to the contractual clauses (limited to interest rates and other clauses specified by Cabinet Order; hereinafter the same applies in this Article); hereinafter the same applies in this Article) in relation to the specified transfer of business, etc. may be carried out without consent from depositors, etc. in relation to the transfer of the contractual status. In this case, prior to the transfer of the contractual status, the failed financial institution and the assuming financial institution or the specified failed financial institution, etc. and the specified assuming financial institution, etc. (referred to as the "failed financial institution, etc." in the following paragraph) must give public notice explaining the outline of the content of the relevant specified transfer of business, etc. and stating that any depositors, etc. who have any objection thereto should state the objection within a specified period of time, and must also give this notice to each of the depositors, etc. whose domicile or residence is known.

(2)If the failed financial institution, etc. intends to carry out the transfer of the contractual status in relation to the specified transfer of business, etc. pursuant to the preceding paragraph, before giving public notice and notice under the same paragraph, it must obtain approval from the Prime Minister (if the failed financial institution, etc. is a labor bank or Rokinren Bank, from the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and if the failed financial institution, etc. is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd., from the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry).

(3)The period referred to in paragraph (1) must not be less than the period specified by Cabinet Order.

(4)The transfer of the contractual status does not become effective with regard to depositors, etc. who have stated the objection within the period referred to in paragraph (1).

(5)The provisions of the preceding Article and Articles 34 and 35 of the Banking Act (including cases where these provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 17 of the Long-Term Credit Bank Act, Article 89, paragraph (1) of the Shinkin Bank Act, Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act on Financial Business by Cooperatives, and Article 94, paragraph (1) of the Labor Bank Act) do not apply to the transfer of the contractual status subject to the public notice or notice under paragraph (1).

Article 132(1)Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 56, paragraph (1) and Article 57, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) of the Trust Act (Act No. 108 of 2006) and Article 7 of the Act on Charitable Trusts (Act No. 62 of 1922), when there is a decision to provide financial assistance under Article 64, paragraph (1) to support the transfer of business of a failed financial institution or specified failed financial institution, etc. that conducts trust business under Article 1, paragraph (1) of the Act on Engagement in Trust Business by Financial Institutions to a financial institution that conducts trust business under Article 1, paragraph (1) of the same Act or there is a decision to provide the specified financial assistance under Article 64, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 126-31, the relevant failed financial institution or specified failed financial institution, etc. may, under a contract for the transfer of business with an assuming financial institution in relation to the financial assistance or a specified assuming financial institution, etc. in relation to the relevant specified financial assistance (hereinafter referred to as "new trustee" in this Article and the following Article), effect a change of trustees for trusts that have been assumed.

(2)If a change of trustee is effected under the preceding paragraph, the new trustee (excluding the new trustee of the special purpose trust (meaning those prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (13) of the Act on Securitization of Assets (Act No. 105 of 1998); the same applies in the following Article); hereinafter the same applies in this Article) must immediately give public notice to the effect that any settlors of a trust subject to the change (hereinafter referred to as "transferred settlors" in this Article) or beneficiaries (hereinafter referred to as "transferred beneficiaries" in this Article) who have any objection thereto should state the objection within a specified period of time, and must also give notice of the same to all known transferred settlors individually and transferred beneficiaries other than those in relation to loan trusts and other trusts specified by Cabinet Order as trust in relation to standard trust contracts (referred to as "standard trusts" in paragraph (5)).

(3)The period under the preceding paragraph cannot be less than one month.

(4)Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2), if the new trustee gives public notice under that paragraph by means of public notice as prescribed in the articles of incorporation, beyond the Official Gazette, the new trustee is not required to give separate notices under the provisions of that paragraph.

(5)The transfer beneficiaries of loan trusts, etc. (meaning the standard trusts specified by Cabinet Order as those to which settlors are entitled to all profits derived therefrom) who have raised objections within the period under paragraph (2) may request that the new trustee purchase the beneficiary rights of the relevant transfer beneficiaries at a fair price to which they would have been entitled if the change prescribed in paragraph (1) had not occurred.

(6)If a request is made under the preceding paragraph, the new trustee must purchase beneficiary rights subject to the relevant request with the new trustee's own assets. In this case, Article 11 of the Loan Trust Act (Act No. 195 of 1952) does not apply.

(7)The provisions of Article 75, paragraph (1), Article 76, and Article 77 of the Trust Act apply mutatis mutandis to cases where the change prescribed in paragraph (1) is made, and the provisions of Article 103, paragraph (6) and (7), Article 104, paragraphs (1) through (11), Article 262, paragraph (1) and (2), Article 263, and Article 264 of the same Act apply mutatis mutandis to the purchase request of own beneficiary rights under paragraph (5). In this case, any necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 132-2(1)If a change is made under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article with respect to a failed financial institution or specified failed financial institution, etc. that is a trustee of a special purpose trust, the new trustee must convene a meeting of right holders (meaning the meeting of right holders prescribed in Subsection 1 of Section 3 of Chapter III of Part III of the Act on Securitization of Assets; the same applies in the following paragraph) without delay and seek approval for the relevant change. In this case, the provisions of Article 244, paragraph (3) of the same Act do not apply.

(2)When a meeting of right holders rejects a proposal for the approval prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the duties of the new trustee in relation to the relevant special purpose trust will end.

(3)The provisions of the main clause of Article 59, paragraph (4) of the Trust Act apply mutatis mutandis to the new trustee whose duties have ended pursuant to the preceding paragraph.

(4)The provisions of Article 75, paragraph (1), Article 76 and Article 77 of the Trust Act apply mutatis mutandis to cases where a change is made under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article with respect to a failed financial institution or specified failed financial institution, etc. that is a trustee of a special purpose trust.

Article 132-3(1)Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 146, paragraph (1) of the Trust Act, when there is a decision to provide the specified financial assistance under Article 64, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 126-31 to support the transfer of business conducted by a specified failed financial institution, etc. that is the settlor of a trust, the relevant specified failed financial institution, etc. may transfer the status as the settlor of the trust agreement in relation to the relevant trust (limited to a trust in relation to a trust agreement concluded based on the provisions of Article 43-2, paragraph (2) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act or any other trust specified by Cabinet Order as being equivalent thereto) based on the contract in relation to the business transfer concluded with the specified assuming financial institution, etc. in relation to the relevant specified financial assistance (hereinafter referred to as the "new settlor" in this Article) to the relevant new settlor.

(2)When the status as the settlor of a trust agreement has been transferred under the preceding paragraph, the new settlor must immediately give public notice to the effect that any trustee of a trust subject to the relevant transfer (hereinafter referred to as "transferred trustees" in this paragraph and paragraph (5)) or beneficiaries (hereinafter referred to as "transferred beneficiaries" in paragraph (5)) who have any objection thereto should state the objection within a specified period of time, and must also give notice of the same to each individual transferred trustee.

(3)The period under the preceding paragraph must not be less than one month.

(4)Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2), if the new settlor gives public notice under that paragraph by the means of public notice prescribed in the articles of incorporation, beyond the Official Gazette, the new settlor is not required to give separate notice under the provisions of that paragraph.

(5)If a transferred trustee or transferred beneficiary states an objection within the period under paragraph (2), the transfer of the status of the settlor of the trust agreement in relation to the relevant transferred trustee or transferred beneficiary loses its effect retroactively as of the time of the relevant transfer; provided, however, that this does not prejudice the rights of a third party.

Article 132-4(1)When there is a decision to provide the specified financial assistance under Article 64, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 126-31 to support the transfer of business conducted by a specified failed financial institution, etc. that is an account management institution (meaning the account management institution prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Act on Book-Entry Transfer of Corporate Bonds and Share (Act No. 75 of 2001); hereinafter the same applies in this Article), and a contract in relation to the business transfer is concluded between the specified failed financial institution, etc. in relation to the relevant specified financial assistance and a specified assuming financial institution, etc., the accounts (limited to those on which the specified assuming financial institution, etc. will make book-entries as a result of the relevant business transfer) of participants (meaning the participants prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the same Act; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) opened by the specified failed financial institution, etc. will be deemed to be accounts of participants opened by the relevant specified assuming financial institution, etc.

(2)When there is a decision to provide the specified financial assistance under Article 64, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 126-31 to support the transfer of business conducted by a specified failed financial institution, etc. that is an account management institution, and a contract in relation to the business transfer is concluded between the specified failed financial institution, etc. in relation to the relevant specified financial assistance and a specified assuming financial institution, etc., the accounts (limited to those to describe or record book-entry company bonds for which the specified assuming financial institution, etc. or a participant of the specified assuming financial institution, etc. or of its lower-positioned institution (meaning the lower-positioned institution prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9) of the Act on Book-Entry Transfer of Corporate Bonds and Share) has rights; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) which the specified failed financial institution, etc. had the book-entry institution prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the same Act (including the bank of Japan which is deemed to be a book-entry institution pursuant to Article 48 of the same Act) or another account management institution open will be deemed to be accounts which the relevant specified assuming financial institution, etc. has the institution open.

Article 133(1)If a financial institution under management intends to assign a revolving mortgage together with all of the claims it should secure before the principal is established, through the transfer of business to a bridge bank or another financial institution (hereinafter referred to as the "bridge financial institution" in this Article), the relevant financial institution under management and the bridge financial institution may give public notice to the effect that any revolving mortgagors who have any objection to the following matters should state the objection to the relevant financial institution under management within a specified period of time, or may give individual notice of the same:

(2)The period under the preceding paragraph must not be less than two weeks.

(3)Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), if a financial institution under management and the bridge financial institution give public notice under that paragraph by the means of public notice prescribed in the articles of incorporation, beyond the Official Gazette, the relevant financial institution under management and bridge financial institution are not required to give separate notices under the provisions of that paragraph.

(4)If a revolving mortgagor in relation to the public notice or notice under paragraph (1) does not raise any objections with respect to the matters prescribed in each item of that paragraph within the period under that paragraph, it will be deemed that the revolving mortgagor has consented to the matters specified in paragraph (1), item (i) and that there has been an agreement on the matters specified in paragraph (1), item (ii) between the revolving mortgagors and the bridge financial institution in relation to the public notice or notice prescribed in paragraph (1).

(5)If the revolving mortgagor has stated its objection to part of the matters specified in each item of paragraph (1), it will be deemed that it has stated objections to all of the matters specified in the same item.

(6)The provisions of all preceding paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to cases where a bridge bank or bank under special crisis management seeks to assign the revolving mortgage together with all of the claims to be secured thereby, before the principal is established through the transfer of business to another financial institution.

Article 133-2(1)Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 398-12, paragraph (1) of the Civil Code, a specified failed financial institution, etc., without obtaining the approval of the revolving mortgagor in relation to a revolving mortgage for securing claims transferred through a business transfer (the mortgage is hereinafter referred to as a "transferred revolving mortgage" in this Article and paragraphs (2) and (3) of the following Article, and the revolving mortgagor is hereinafter referred to as "transferred revolving mortgagor" in this Article), may assign the transferred revolving mortgage along with all of the claims to be secured thereby (hereinafter referred to as "transferred claims" in this Article) before the principal is fixed, through a business transfer to a specified bridge financial institution, etc. (meaning the specified bridge financial institution, etc. prescribed in Article 126-34, paragraph (3), item (v); the same applies in paragraph (7)) or any other financial institution, etc. (hereinafter referred to as "bridge financial institution, etc." in this Article). In this case, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 398-4, paragraph (1) of the same Code, it will be deemed that an agreement has been reached between the transferred revolving mortgagor and the bridge financial institution, etc. that the transferred revolving mortgage is to secure the transferred claims even after the assignment of the transferred revolving mortgage.

(2)When a transferred revolving mortgage is assigned along with all of the transferred claims before the principal is fixed pursuant to the preceding paragraph, and the transferred revolving mortgage is to secure the transferred claims even after the assignment of the transferred revolving mortgage, the specified failed financial institution, etc. and the bridge financial institution, etc. must, within two weeks of the day of the relevant assignment, give public notice of the following matters and to the effect that any transferred revolving mortgagor who has any objection thereto should request that the principal secured be fixed within a specified period of time, and must also give notice of the same to each individual transferred revolving mortgagor:

(3)The period under the preceding paragraph cannot be less than one month.

(4)Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2), if the specified failed financial institution, etc. and the bridge financial institution, etc. give public notice under that paragraph by the means of public notice prescribed in the articles of incorporation, beyond the Official Gazette, the specified failed financial institution, etc. and the bridge financial institution, etc. are not required to give a separate notice under the provisions of that paragraph.

(5)If a transferred revolving mortgage is assigned along with all of the transferred claims before the principal is fixed pursuant to paragraph (1), and the transferred revolving mortgage is to secure the transferred claims even after the assignment of the transferred revolving mortgage, the transferred revolving mortgagor may request that the principal secured be fixed; provided, however, that this does not apply when the period prescribed in paragraph (2) has passed.

(6)If a request is made under the preceding paragraph, the principal secured will be deemed to have been fixed at the time of the business transfer in relation to the transferred revolving mortgage under paragraph (1) concerning the transferred revolving mortgagor.

(7)The provisions of the preceding paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to cases where a specified bridge financial institution, etc. intends to assign a revolving mortgage along with all of the claims to be secured thereby before the principal is fixed, through a business transfer to another financial institution, etc. In this case, necessary technical replacement of terms will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 134(1)An application for registration of a transfer of a revolving mortgage in the cases prescribed in Article 133, paragraph (4) (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 133, paragraph (6)) will be accompanied by information proving that public notice or individual notice was given and that the revolving mortgagors did not raise any objection within the period under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 133, paragraph (6)).

(2)An application for the registration of a transfer of a transferred revolving mortgage in the cases prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (7) of the same Article) must be accompanied by information proving that the specified failed financial institution, etc. has carried out a business transfer under paragraph (1) of the same Article.

(3)An application for the registration of alteration of a revolving mortgage or transferred revolving mortgage to the effect of adding claims in relation to transfer to the scope of claims to be secured by the revolving mortgage or transfer revolving mortgage in the cases prescribed in Article 133, paragraph (4) of the preceding Article (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 133, paragraph (6)) or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (7) of the same Article) may be made by the revolving mortgagee alone when the application is accompanied by the information prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs.

Article 135(1)The registration under Article 79 (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 126-9) is not subject to the registration and license tax.

(2)If a bridge bank has acquired any right relating to real assets through the assumption of business, etc. of a financial institution under management based on a decision specified in Article 91, paragraph (1), item (ii) under Article 91, paragraph (1) or (2) (referred to as "assumption of business, etc. based on decision" in the following paragraph) (limited to those that have been confirmed as appropriate assets to be held by the relevant bridge bank under Article 93, paragraph (2)), the registration of the relevant right relating to real assets transfer is not subject to the registration and license tax, as long as the registration is made within one year from the relevant acquisition as pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Finance.

(3)For the purpose of applying to a bridge bank, the provisions of Article 62-3 and Article 63 of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation, the transfer of land or any right on land acquired through the assumption of business, etc. based on a decision (limited to those that have been confirmed as appropriate assets to be held by the relevant bridge bank under Article 93, paragraph (2)) (meaning the transfer prescribed in Article 62-3, paragraph (2), item (i), (a) of that Act) is not to constitute the transfer of land, etc. under the same item (i).

(4)If a bank or any other person specified by Cabinet Order (hereinafter referred to as a "bank, etc." in this paragraph) has increased the amount of stated capital through the subscription for shares by the DICJ based on the Prime Minister's decision under Article 105, paragraph (4) in order to take the measures under item (i) or acquisition of shares by the DICJ based on the decision in relation to the measures under item (i), or the subscription for shares by the DICJ based on the Prime Minister's decision under Article 126-22, paragraph (6) to carry out a subscription for specified shares, etc. in relation to specified measures under item (i) or acquisition of shares by the DICJ based on the decision in relation to the specified measures under item (i), as specified by Cabinet Order, and if the person set forth in the following items registers the matters specified in the respective items, the tax rate for the registration is 0.35 percent, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9 of the Registration and License Tax Act (Act No. 35 of 1967), only with regard to the person who makes registration within one year from the date of these decisions pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance:

Article 136(1)The Prime Minister (in the case of a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and in the case of the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; the same applies in the following paragraph and the following Article) may, when finding it necessary to ensure the smooth implementation of this Act, require a financial institution, etc. (including a financial institution agent, etc. (meaning a financial institution agent, electronic payment handling service provider, etc., life insurance agent, non-life insurance agent, and financial instruments intermediary service provider; the same applies in the same paragraph, paragraph (1) of the same Article, and Article 149, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a))) or specified holding company, etc. to submit reports or materials with regard to the status of its business and assets.

(2)The Prime Minister may, when and to the extent that they find it particularly necessary to ensure the smooth implementation of this Act, require a subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc. or subsidiary company (meaning the subsidiary company prescribed in Article 2, item (iii) of the Companies Act; the same applies in the following paragraph, the following Article, and Article 139, paragraph (2), item (ii)) of the financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc. or a person to whom business has been entrusted by the financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc. (excluding a financial institution agent, etc.; the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraphs (2) and (5) of the following Article) to submit reports or materials with regard to the status of business and assets of the relevant financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc.

(3)A subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc. or subsidiary company of the financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc., or a person to whom business has been entrusted by the financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc. may, if there are justifiable grounds, refuse to submit reports or materials under the preceding paragraph.

Article 137(1)The Prime Minister may, when finding it necessary to ensure the smooth implementation of this Act, authorize their officials to enter a business office (in the case of a Shinkin bank, etc. or mutual company, an office, and in the case of a foreign insurance company, etc., the branch office, etc. prescribed in Article 185, paragraph (1) of the Insurance Business Act) or any other facilities of a financial institution, etc. (including a financial institution agent, etc.) or specified holding company, etc. and ask questions on the status of its business and assets or inspect books, documents, and other items.

(2)The Prime Minister may, when and to the extent that they find it to be particularly necessary in authorizing the entry, questioning, or inspection under the preceding paragraph, authorize the relevant officials to enter the facilities of a subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc. or subsidiary company of the financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc. or the person to whom business has been entrusted by the financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc. and ask necessary questions concerning the questioning or inspection of the relevant financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc. or inspect books, documents, and other items.

(3)In the case referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, the officials must carry a certificate of identification and produce it if requested by those concerned.

(4)The authority to conduct on-site inspections prescribed in paragraphs (1) and (2) must not be construed as given for any criminal investigation.

(5)The provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the questioning and inspection under paragraph (2) of a subsidiary, etc. of a financial institution, etc. or subsidiary company of the financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc., or a person to whom business has been entrusted by the financial institution, etc. or specified holding company, etc.

(6)The Prime Minister may, when finding it necessary, authorize the DICJ to conduct the entry, questioning, or inspection (limited to those conducted to investigate the following matters) under paragraph (1) or (2); in this case, the DICJ is to authorize its officials to conduct the relevant entry, questioning, or inspection:

(7)The provisions of paragraphs (3) through (5) apply mutatis mutandis to the entry, questioning, or inspection under the preceding paragraph.

Article 137-2(1)If a ruling for the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings is made with respect to a financial institution, the court clerk must notify the Prime Minister (in the case of a labor bank or Rokinren Bank, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and in the case of the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd., the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry) to that effect.

(2)In bankruptcy proceedings of a financial institution, when notice is given under Article 197, paragraph (1) of the Bankruptcy Act (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 209, paragraph (3) of the same Act) or Article 204, paragraph (2) of the Bankruptcy Act, or permission is granted under Article 208, paragraph (1) of the same Act, a bankruptcy trustee must notify the DICJ to that effect.

Article 137-3(1)When giving the confirmation prescribed in Article 102, paragraph (1) or specified confirmation, the Prime Minister may, following deliberation by the council, make a decision to the effect that a clause providing for specified cancellation, etc. of a contract (limited to a contract which agrees that specified cancellation, etc. will become effective based on the reason that a related measure, etc. (meaning the relevant confirmation or specified confirmation, order to manage, designation of special monitoring, or order for specified management, or any other measure related to the relevant confirmation or specified confirmation; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph and paragraph (4)) has been taken with regard to the financial institution or financial institution, etc. which is a party to the contract or a person specified in the contract, and which pertains to transactions specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance as those associated with financial market or any other financial system in Japan) based on the reason that a related measure, etc. has been taken with regard to the financial institution or financial institution, etc. in relation to the relevant confirmation or specified confirmation does not become effective during the period specified by the Prime Minister as a period necessary for implementing a business transfer or any other necessary measure for avoiding the risk of severe disruption being caused to the financial system in Japan, to the extent necessary for avoiding the risk of severe disruption being caused to the financial system in Japan (hereinafter referred to as the "period for implementing a measure" in this Article).

(2)The "specified cancellation, etc." set forth in the preceding paragraph means termination or cancellation of a contract, arising of a right to cancel a contract, forfeiture of the benefit of time with regard to claims in relation to a contract, the collective clearing prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (6) of the Act on Close-Out Netting of Specified Financial Transaction Conducted by Financial Institutions (Act No. 108 of 1998) with regard to transactions in relation to a contract, and other effects specified by Cabinet Office Order and Order of the Ministry of Finance as being equivalent thereto.

(3)A decision under paragraph (1) takes effect as of the time of the relevant decision.

(4)Upon making a decision under paragraph (1), the Prime Minister must immediately give public notice of the fact and the period for implementing a measure in the Official Gazette, and notify the DICJ and the financial institution or financial institution, etc. in relation to the related measure, etc. subject to the relevant decision.

(5)During the period for implementing a measure, the provisions of Article 58 of the Bankruptcy Act (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 51 of the Civil Rehabilitation Act, Article 63 of the Corporate Reorganization Act, and Article 41, paragraph (3) and Article 206, paragraph (3) of the Act on Special Measures for the Reorganization Proceedings of Financial Institutions) do not apply to the contract for which a decision under paragraph (1) has been made.

(6)With regard to application of the provisions of Article 3 of the Act on Close-Out Netting of Specified Financial Transaction Conducted by Financial Institutions, etc., to a contract for which a decision under paragraph (1) has been made, during the period for implementing a measure, the grounds for collective clearing prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the same Act will be deemed to have not arisen.

Article 137-4The Prime Minister (if the financial institution, etc. in relation to the order prescribed in this Article is a labor bank, Rokinren Bank, or a subsidiary, etc. of a labor bank, etc., the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and in the case where it is the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. or a subsidiary, etc. of the Shoko Chukin Bank, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry) may, when a need for orderly resolution of assets and liabilities of the financial institution, etc. arises and they find that measures necessary for the smooth implementation thereof have not been taken, order the financial institution, etc. to take the relevant measures to the extent necessary by a specified time.

Article 137-5The DICJ must, when there is a need to carry out its operations in international cooperation, carry out the exchange of information with foreign governments, foreign local public entities, foreign central banks, international organizations, and other bodies equivalent thereto, along with other necessary operations.

Article 138Beyond what is provided for in this Act, necessary matters for the implementation of this Act will be specified by Cabinet Order.

Article 139(1)The Prime Minister delegates the authority under this Act to the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency, except those specified below:

(2)The Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency may delegate the following authority that has been delegated under the preceding paragraph to the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission:

(3)If the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission exercises the authority that has been delegated under the preceding paragraph, it is to promptly report the results thereof to the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency.

(4)The Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency may, pursuant to Cabinet Order provisions, delegate part of the authority that has been delegated under paragraph (1) (excluding the authority that has been delegated to the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission under paragraph (2)) to the Director-Generals of Local Finance Bureaus or Director-Generals of Local Finance Branch Bureaus.

(5)The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission may, pursuant to Cabinet Order provisions, delegate part of the authority that has been delegated under paragraph (2) to the Director-Generals of Local Finance Bureaus or Director-Generals of Local Finance Branch Bureaus.

(6)With regard to affairs in relation to the authority delegated to the Director-Generals of Local Finance Bureaus or Director-Generals of Local Finance Branch Bureaus under the preceding paragraph, the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission directs and supervises the Director-Generals of Local Finance Bureaus or Director-Generals of Local Finance Branch Bureaus.

Article 139-2A request for administrative review with regard to an order to submit reports or materials given by the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission pursuant to paragraph (2) of the preceding Article (including cases where the order is given by the Director-Generals of Local Finance Bureaus or Director-Generals of Local Finance Branch Bureaus pursuant to paragraph (5) of that Article) may be filed with the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission alone.

Article 140When enacting, revising, or rescinding an order pursuant to this Act, necessary transitional measures (including transitional measures concerning penal provisions) may be provided for by that order, to the extent considered reasonably necessary for its enactment, revision or discontinuation.

Article 141(1)Any financial administrator or financial administrator representative who has accepted, solicited, or promised to accept a bribe in connection with their duties is subject to imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine of up to one million yen.

(2)When a financial administrator or financial administrator representative has legal personality, any officer or staff member of the financial administrator or financial administrator representative who has accepted, solicited, or promised to accept a bribe in connection with their duties is subject to imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine of up to one million yen. The same applies when, if a financial administrator or financial administrator representative has legal personality, any officer or staff thereof has caused the financial administrator or financial administrator representative to accept, solicit an offer of or promise of a bribe in connection with the duties of a financial administrator or financial administrator representative.

(3)Any bribe accepted by an offender or financial administrator or financial administrator representative who has legal personality will be confiscated. If it is not possible to confiscate the whole or part of the bribe, an equivalent value thereof will be collected.

Article 141-2(1)Any special monitoring agent or DICJ representative who has accepted, solicited, or promised to accept a bribe in connection with their duties is subject to imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine of up to one million yen.

(2)If a special monitoring agent or DICJ representative has legal personality, any officer or staff member of the special surveillance agent or DICJ representative who has accepted, solicited, or promised to accept a bribe in connection with their duties is subject to imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine of up to one million yen. The same applies when, if a special surveillance agent or DICJ representative has legal personality, any officer or staff thereof has caused the special surveillance agent or DICJ representative to accept or solicit an offer of or promise of a bribe in connection with the duties of the special surveillance agent or DICJ representative.

(3)Any bribe accepted by an offender or special monitoring agent or DICJ representative who has legal personality will be confiscated. If it is not possible to confiscate the whole or part of the bribe, an equivalent value thereof will be collected.

Article 142Any person who has given, or offered or promised to give the bribe prescribed in Article 141, paragraph (1) or (2) or paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is subject to imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine of up to one million yen.

Article 142-2If any of the following violations has been committed, the person who has committed the relevant violation is subject to imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of up to three million yen, or both:

Article 143(1)If a person has failed to submit reports or materials under Article 136, paragraph (1) or (2) or submitted false reports or materials, the person who has committed the violation is subject to an imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of up to three million yen.

(2)If a person has refused to answer questions or given false answers to the officials or staff of the DICJ under Article 137, paragraph (1), (2), or (6) or has refused, obstructed, or avoided any inspection under these provisions, the provisions of the preceding paragraph also applies to the person who has committed the violation.

Article 144Any person who has divulged any secret which may have come to their knowledge in the course of their duties in violation of the provisions of Article 22 (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 33) or Article 82 (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Articles 126-9 and 126-18) is subject to imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than five hundred thousand yen.

Article 145(1)Any director, company director, executive officer, member who conducts business (if the member who conducts business has legal personality, a person who is to perform the duties of the member who conducts business), representative in Japan, accounting advisor (if the accounting advisor has legal personality, a member who is to perform the duties of the accounting advisor), inspector, corporate auditor, or a person equivalent to any of these, accounting auditor (if the accounting auditor has legal personality, a member who is to performs the duties of the corporate auditor), any manager, counselor, or any other employee of a failed financial institution, person who has become subject to a ruling for the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings, or financial institution, etc. under special surveillance, a financial institution agent with the relevant failed financial institution as its principal financial institution, the other party to contracts in relation to the agency or intermediary prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of The Shoko Chukin Bank Limited Act of the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. (limited to the case where it is the failed financial institution), or electronic payment handling service provider, etc. having the relevant failed financial institution as its entrusting financial institution, or a financial institution agent having a financial institution, etc. under special surveillance as its principal financial institution, the other party to contracts in relation to the agency or intermediary prescribed in the same paragraph of the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. (limited to the case where it is the financial institution, etc. under special surveillance), or electronic payment handling service provider, etc. having the relevant financial institution, etc. under special surveillance as its entrusting financial institution, a life insurance agent or non-life insurance agent having a financial institution, etc. under special surveillance as its affiliated insurance company, etc., or a financial instruments intermediary service provider having a financial institution, etc. under special surveillance as its entrusting financial instruments business, etc. (if these persons are corporations, any of their officers and employees), or a person who previously held any of these positions has failed to submit reports or submitted false reports under Article 37, paragraph (3) or refused, obstructed, or avoided any inspection under Article 37, paragraph (3) is subject to imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than five hundred thousand yen.

(2)The provisions of the preceding paragraph applies to any director, executive officer, accounting advisor (if the accounting advisor has legal personality, a member who is to perform the duties of the accounting advisor), corporate auditor, accounting auditor (if the accounting auditor has legal personality, a member who is to perform the duties of the corporate auditor), inspector, manager, counselor, or any other employee of a financial institution under management, a financial institution agent having the financial institution under management as its principal financial institution, the other party to contracts in relation to the agency or intermediary prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Shoko Chukin Bank Limited Act of the Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. (limited to the case where it is the financial institution under management), or electronic payment handling service provider, etc. having the financial institution under management as its entrusting financial institution (if these persons are corporations, any of their officers and employees), or a person who previously held any of these positions who has failed to submit reports or submitted false reports under Article 81, paragraph (1) or refused, obstructed, or avoided any inspection under the same paragraph.

Article 146If any of the following items applies, the person who has committed the violation is subject to a fine of not more than five hundred thousand yen:

Article 147Any officer or employee of the DICJ who has committed any of the following violations is subject to a fine of not more than five hundred thousand yen:

Article 148If any of the following items applies, the person who has committed the violation is subject to a fine of not more than three hundred thousand yen:

Article 149(1)If a representative (including an administrator of an association without legal personality, etc.) of a corporation (including an association or foundation which is not a corporation but for which a representative or an administrator has been designated (hereinafter referred to as an "association without legal personality, etc." in this Article); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) or an agent, employee, or other worker of a corporation or individual has committed any violation specified in each of the following items with regard to the business or assets of the corporation or individual, not only the offender will be punished, but also the relevant corporation is subject to the fine set forth in each respective item and the relevant individual is subject to the fine prescribed in the respective Articles:

(2)If the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply to an association without legal personality, etc., its representative or administrator represent the association without legal personality, etc. in its procedural action, and the provisions of Acts concerning criminal procedure when a corporation is accused or suspected will be applied.

Article 150(1)The crimes set forth in Article 141 or Article 141-2 apply to any person who has committed these crimes outside Japan.

(2)The crimes set forth in Article 142 (limited to the part in relation to Article 141, paragraph (1) or (2)) will be governed by Article 2 of the Penal Code.

Article 151(1)Any director, company director, executive officer, member who conducts business (if the member who conducts business has legal personality, a person who is to perform the duties of the member who conducts business), representative in Japan, or a person equivalent to any of these of a financial institution, etc., electronic payment handling service provider, etc., or specified holding company, etc. who has committed any of the following violations is subject to a non-criminal fine of not more than one million yen; provided, however, that this does not apply when the act is made subject to a criminal punishment:

(2)If a financial administrator or the DICJ if an order for specified management has been issued fails to transfer their affairs to a director, company director. executive officer, member who conducts business, representative in Japan, or liquidator of a financial institution under management or a financial institution, etc. subject to the order for specified management despite the rescission of an order to manage or order for specified management under Article 75 or Article 126-7, the financial administrator or the DICJ if an order for specified management has been issued is subject to a non-criminal fine of not more than one million yen; provided, however, that this does not apply when a criminal punishment should be imposed for the act in question.

(3)A financial administrator of the financial institutions specified in items (i) through (vii) or the DICJ if an order for specified management has been issued for the financial institution, etc. specified in each of the following items is subject to a non-criminal fine of not more than one million yen if they fall under any of the provisions prescribed in each respective item; provided, however, that this does not apply when a criminal punishment should be imposed for the act in question:

(4)If the DICJ, if an order for specified management has been issued for a financial instruments business, designated parent company, or securities finance company falls under any item of Article 208 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, the DICJ is subject to a non-criminal fine of not more than three hundred thousand yen; provided, however, that this does not apply when a criminal punishment should be imposed for the act in question.

(5)A financial administrator of a credit cooperative or federation of credit cooperatives or the DICJ if an order for specified management has been issued for a credit cooperative or federation of credit cooperatives that falls under any item of Article 115, paragraph (1) of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Cooperatives Act is subject to a non-criminal fine of not more than two hundred thousand yen; provided, however, that this does not apply when a criminal punishment should be imposed for the act in question.

Article 152Any officer of the DICJ who falls under any of the following items is subject to a non-criminal fine of not more than two hundred thousand yen:

Article 153Any person who has violated the provisions of Article 6, paragraph (2) is subject to a non-criminal fine of not more than two hundred thousand yen.