Business Category

Scale

(i)

business whereby users providing goods, etc. provide goods, etc. (goods, etc. is specified in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act; the same applies below) to general users and that falls under all of the following:

The aggregate amount of an amount stated below in a fiscal year (the period from April 1 of each year to March 31 of the following year;  the same applies below) is 300 billion yen:

(a) the users providing goods, etc. are primarily business operators, and the general users to whom the goods, etc. are provided are primarily persons other than business operators;

(a) The aggregate amount of domestic sales in relation to the provision of Goods, etc. by the users providing goods, etc. (limited to provision on the forum related to the relevant business; the same applies in (b))

(b) business whereby users providing goods, etc. provide goods, etc. in response to consumers' broad demand, and the relevant goods, etc. include foods, beverages, or daily necessities; and

(b) Total domestic sales relating to the business of a digital platform provider providing goods, etc. to general users (excluding businesses specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as businesses that bear the cost of repairing goods provided by a users providing of goods, etc. in the event that the goods are damaged and other businesses conducted as an ancillary part of the provision of a digital platform).

(c) business whereby users providing goods, etc. who offers goods, etc., with the prices and other information of the relevant goods, etc. to general users.

(ii)

business whereby a digital platform provider provides a forum for general users to search information or interact with other general users by posting text, images, or video and in which a users providing of goods, etc. display information on goods, etc. to general users as advertising and that falls under all of the following:

The amount of domestic sales in a fiscal year relating to the provision of services for displaying information relating to the goods, etc. of users providing of goods, etc. by the digital platform provider as advertising (limited to that within the forum concerning the relevant business) is 100 billion yen

(a) the users providing goods, etc. are primarily business operators, and a general  users are primarily persons other than business operators; and

(b) the user providing goods, etc. whose information on goods, etc. is to be displayed is determined primarily by bidding.

(iii)

business whereby users providing of goods, etc. provide services to general users for displaying advertising materials (text, images, or video to be displayed as advertising that was created and recorded by an electronic  or magnetic means, or other means that cannot be recognized by the perception of people; the same applies in this item) of general users as advertising in their own advertisement display frames ( spaces built up by information processing using a computer for the purpose of displaying text, images or video as advertising; hereinafter the same applies in this item) and that fall under all of the following:

The amount of domestic sales in a fiscal year relating to the provision of services for displaying advertising materials as advertising in advertisement display  frames of users providing goods,  etc. (limited to that within the forum concerning the relevant business) is 50 billion yen

(a) both users providing goods, etc. and general users are primarily business operators; and

(b) the user providing goods, etc. who is to provide  services for displaying advertising materials of general users as advertising in the advertisement display frames is determined primarily by bidding.