Companies Act

A share certificate-issuing company (including a stock company, if one year has not elapsed from the day immediately following the day on which the stock company has effected an amendment to the articles of incorporation to abolish provisions of the articles of incorporation to the effect that it issues share certificates for its shares (or, for a company with class shares, shares of all classes); hereinafter the same applies in this Subsection (excluding Article 223, Article 227 and Article 228, paragraph (2))) must prepare a register of lost share certificates and enter or record the following information (hereinafter in this Subsection referred to as "information required to be entered in the lost share certificates register") in the same:

the serial numbers of the share certificates relating to the request under the provisions of Article 223 (including share certificates that have become invalid under the provisions of Article 218, paragraph (2) or Article 219, paragraph (3), and share certificates representing shares if a judgment upholding a claim seeking invalidation of the share issue or the disposition of relevant shares has become final and binding; hereinafter the same applies in this Subsection (excluding Article 228));

the names and addresses of persons who have lost share certificates under the preceding item;

the names and addresses of persons entered or recorded in the shareholder register as the shareholders or registered pledgees of shares of the shares represented by the share certificates (hereinafter in this Subsection, referring to as "registered holder") under paragraph (1); and

the day on which the matters set forth in the preceding three paragraphs are stated or recorded for the share certificates provided for in paragraph (1) (hereinafter in this Subsection referred to as "day of registration of loss of share certificate").

For the purpose of the application of the provisions of Article 123 to a share certificate-issuing company, in that Article, the phrase "of the shareholder register" is deemed to be replaced with "of the shareholder register and the lost share certificates register", and the phrase "keeping the shareholder register" is deemed to be replaced with "keeping the shareholder register and the lost share certificates register".

A person that loses a share certificate may request the share certificate-issuing company, pursuant to the provisions of Ministry of Justice Order, to enter or record the information required to be entered in the lost share certificates register in the lost share certificates register with respect to that share certificate (hereinafter referred to as the "registration of a lost share certificate").

If a share certificate-issuing company has effected the registration of lost share certificate in response to a request under the provisions of the preceding Article, if the person entered or recorded in the lost share certificates register as the person that lost the share certificates relating to relevant request (hereinafter in this Subsection referred to as "registrant of lost share certificate") is not the registered holder of the shares represented by relevant share certificates, the share certificate-issuing company must, without delay, notify relevant registered holder to the effect that the share certificate-issuing company has effected the registration of lost share certificates for relevant share certificates, and of the matters set forth in Article 221, items (i), (ii) and (iv).

If share certificates have been submitted to the share certificate-issuing company in order to exercise rights with respect to the shares, if the registration of lost share certificate has been effected for relevant share certificates, the share certificate-issuing company must, without delay, notify the person who submitted relevant share certificates to the effect that the registration of lost share certificate has been effected for relevant share certificates.

A person who holds share certificates subject to the registration of lost share certificate (excluding the registrant of lost share certificate for relevant share certificates) may file an application with the share certificate-issuing company for the cancellation of relevant registration of lost share certificate, as prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order; provided, however, that this does not apply if one year has elapsed from the day immediately following the day of registration of the loss of share certificate.

A person who intends to make an application under the provisions of the preceding paragraph must submit the share certificates referred to in that paragraph to the share certificate-issuing company.

A share certificate-issuing company that has received an application under the provisions of paragraph (1) must, without delay, notify the registrant of lost share certificate referred to in that paragraph of the name and address of the person who made the application under the provisions of that paragraph, and of the serial numbers of the share certificates referred to in that paragraph.

On the day on which two weeks have elapsed from the day of the notice under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the share certificate-issuing company must cancel the registration of lost share certificate relating to share certificates submitted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2). In these cases, the share certificate-issuing company must return relevant share certificates to the person who filed the application under the provisions of paragraph (1).

A registrant of lost share certificate may file an application with the share certificate-issuing company, as prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order, to cancel the registration of lost share certificate (excluding the registration of lost share certificate for share certificates submitted under the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article if an amendment is effected to the articles of incorporation to abolish provisions of the articles of incorporation to the effect that the share certificate-issuing company issues share certificates for its shares (or, for a company with class shares, shares of all classes)).

A share certificate-issuing company that has received an application under the provisions of the preceding paragraph must cancel the registration of lost share certificate relating to relevant application on the day of the receipt of relevant application.

If a share certificate-issuing company amends the articles of incorporation to abolish provisions of the articles of incorporation to the effect that the share certificate-issuing company issues share certificates for its shares (or, for a company with class shares, shares of all classes), the share certificate-issuing company must cancel the registration of lost share certificate (excluding registrations for share certificates submitted under the provisions of Article 225, paragraph (2) only if the registrant of lost share certificate is the registered holder of the shares relating to the share certificates subject to relevant registration of lost share certificate) on the day of the effectuation of relevant amendment to the articles of incorporation.

Share certificates subject to the registration of lost share certificate (excluding registrations that have been cancelled) become invalid on the day on which one year has elapsed from the day immediately following the day of registration of lost share certificate.

If share certificates become invalid under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the share certificate-issuing company must reissue share certificates to the registrant of lost share certificate for relevant share certificates.

If a registrant of lost share certificate submits a request under Article 220, paragraph (1), the share certificate-issuing company may give public notice pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph only if the last day of the period under that paragraph arrives before the day on which one year has elapsed from the day immediately following the day of registration of lost share certificate.

If a share certificate-issuing company gives public notice under the provisions of Article 220, paragraph (1), relevant share certificate-issuing company must cancel the registration of lost share certificate for the share certificates relating to relevant public notice on the day of relevant public notice.

A share certificate-issuing company may not state or record the names and addresses of the persons who acquired shares represented by share certificates subject to the registration of lost share certificate until the earliest of the following days (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "day of cancellation of registration"):

the day on which relevant registration of lost share certificate is cancelled; or

the day on which one year has elapsed from the day immediately following the day of registration of lost share certificate.

A share certificate-issuing company may reissue share certificates subject to the registration of lost share certificate only after the day of cancellation of registration.

If a registrant of lost share certificate is not the registered holder of the shares represented by the share certificates subject to the registration of lost share certificate, the shareholders of relevant shares may not exercise voting right at a shareholders meeting or general meeting of class shareholders until the day of cancellation of registration.

An auction pursuant to the provisions of Article 197, paragraph (1) or a sale pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article may not be effected with respect to shares represented by share certificates subject to the registration of lost share certificate.

A share certificate-issuing company must keep the lost share certificates register at its head office (or, if it has a shareholder register administrator, at its business office).

Any person may submit the following requests at any time during the business hours of a share certificate-issuing company with respect to the lost share certificates register (limited to the portion in which the person has an interest). In these cases, the reasons for the request must be disclosed:

if the lost share certificates register has been prepared in writing, a request for the review or copying of relevant document;

if the lost share certificates register has been prepared as an electronic or magnetic record, a request to inspect or copy anything that is used in a manner prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order to display the information recorded in that electronic or magnetic record.

It is sufficient for a notice or demand to a registrant of lost share certificate to be sent by a share certificate-issuing company to the address of relevant registrant of lost share certificate stated or recorded in the lost share certificates register (or, if relevant registrant of lost share certificate notifies the share certificate-issuing company of a different place or contact address for the receipt of notices or demands, to the place or contact address).

The notices or demands referred to in the preceding paragraph are deemed to have arrived at the time when the notice or demand should normally have arrived.

The provisions of Part IV of the Non-Contentious Cases Procedures Act do not apply to share certificates.