A company may prescribe any one of the following methods as the method of public notice in its articles of incorporation:
publication in Official Gazette;
官報に掲載する方法
publication in a daily newspaper that publishes matters on current affairs; or
時事に関する事項を掲載する日刊新聞紙に掲載する方法
A foreign company may prescribe any one of the methods set forth in the items of the preceding paragraph as the method of public notice.
If a company or a foreign company prescribes to the effect that the method set forth in paragraph (1), item (iii) is to be the method of public notice, it is sufficient to prescribe to the effect that electronic public notice is the method of public notice. In these cases, the method set forth in item (i) or item (ii) of that paragraph may be prescribed as the method of public notice for cases where it is unable to give public notice by way of electronic public notice due to an accident or other unavoidable circumstances.
The method of public notice of a company or a foreign company that does not have the provisions under the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) is the method referred to in paragraph (1), item (i).