Article 24-7Submission of a Parent Company Status Report

①A company that holds the majority of voting rights in a company that is required to submit an annual securities report pursuant to Article 24, paragraph (1) (but only one that is the issuer of securities set forth in Article 24, paragraph (1), item (i) or (ii); such a company is referred to as a "subsidiary company submitting an annual securities report" in paragraph (4) of this Article, paragraph (5) of the following Article, Article 27-30-10 and Article 27-30-11, paragraph (1)), or which is otherwise specified by Cabinet Order as being closely related to a company that is required to submit an annual securities report (excluding a company that is required to submit an annual securities report pursuant to Article 24, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 24, paragraph (5); the same applies in the items of paragraph (4) of this Article) (including a company that has submitted an annual securities report pursuant to Article 23-3, paragraph (4) or that is otherwise specified by Cabinet Office Order); hereinafter, a company that holds the majority of voting rights in, or is otherwise closely related to, such a company, is referred to as a "parent company, etc." in this Article, paragraphs (2), (4), and (5) of the following Article, and Article 27-30-11, paragraph (1)) must submit a report that, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, states the particulars of persons that hold shares in the parent company, etc. and other particulars that are specified by Cabinet Office Order as necessary and appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors, for each business year of the parent company, etc. (or for each period specified by Cabinet Office Order, if the parent company, etc. is an issuer of regulated securities; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph and the following paragraph) (hereinafter referred to as a "parent company, etc. status report") to the Prime Minister within three months after the end of each business year (or, if the parent company, etc. is a foreign company, within the period that is specified by Cabinet Order as necessary and appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors); provided, however, that this does not apply if a company receives the acknowledgement of the Prime Minister, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, as a company whose non-submission of a parent company, etc. status report does not damage the public interest or result in insufficient investor protection.

③The provisions of Article 7,paragraph (1), Article 9, paragraph (1), and Article 10, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to a parent company, etc. status report. In this case, in Article 7,paragraph (1), the phrase "If, on or after the day on which a notification under Article 4, paragraphs (1) to (3) is filed and before the day on which that notification comes into effect, a material particular that is required to be stated in a statement or other document under Article 5, paragraph (1) or paragraph (13) changes" is deemed to be replaced with "If a material particular that is required to be stated in a parent company, etc. status report (meaning a parent company, etc. status report as provided for in Article 24-7, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter) changes", the phrase "the person filing the notification" is deemed to be replaced with "the person submitting the parent company, etc. status report", and the term "amended statement" is deemed to be replaced with "amended report"; in Article 9, paragraph (1) the phrase "the person that submitted it" is deemed to be replaced with "the person submitting the parent company, etc. status report" and the term "amended statement" is deemed to be replaced with "amended report"; in Article 10, paragraph (1), the phrase "the person submitting the securities registration statement" is deemed to be replaced with "the person submitting the parent company, etc. status report" and the phrase "to submit an amended statement, and if the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary, the Prime Minister may order the suspension of the validity of a notification under Article 4, paragraphs (1) to (3)" is deemed to be replaced with "to submit an amended report"; and any other necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.

④A parent company, etc. that has submitted a parent company, etc. status report pursuant to the main clause of paragraph (1) or the main clause of paragraph (2), or that has submitted an amended report in connection with a parent company, etc. status report pursuant to Article 7,paragraph (1), Article 9, paragraph (1), or Article 10, paragraph (1), as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph, must send a copy of it to the subsidiary company submitting annual securities reports without delay, and must also submit a copy of it to the person specified in the relevant of the following items for the category of securities set forth in the relevant item that were issued by the subsidiary company submitting annual securities reports:

⑤The provisions of Article 24, paragraphs (8), (9), and (11) through (13) apply mutatis mutandis if a parent company, etc. that is a foreign company submits a parent company, etc. status report. In this case, in paragraph (8) of that Article, the phrase "foreign company (including a foreign company that has submitted an annual securities report pursuant to Article 23-3, paragraph (4); hereinafter referred to as a 'reporting foreign company')" is deemed to be replaced with "parent company, etc. that is a foreign company (meaning a parent company, etc. as defined by Article 24-7, paragraph (1); hereinafter the same applies in this Article)", and the phrase "for which foreign disclosure is made, that is similar to an annual securities report, etc." is deemed to be replaced with "that states the particulars that are required to be stated in the parent company, etc. status report"; in paragraph (9) of that Article, the phrase "as well as documents stating the particulars not stated in a foreign company report that are specified by Cabinet Office Order as necessary and appropriate for the public interest or for the protection of investors, and other" is deemed to be replaced with "and other"; and any other necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.

⑥The provisions of the preceding paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis if the parent company, etc. is a person other than a company. In this case, in paragraph (1), the phrase "A company that holds the majority of voting rights" is deemed to be replaced with "A person that is other than a company and that holds the majority of voting rights", the phrase "which is otherwise specified by Cabinet Order as being closely related to" is deemed to be replaced with "that is otherwise specified by Cabinet Order as being a person that is other than a company and that is closely related to", and the phrase "persons that hold shares in the parent company, etc." is deemed to be replaced with "equity holders in the parent company, etc. and other persons"; in paragraph (2), the term "company" is deemed to be replaced with "person that is other than a company and"; in the preceding paragraph the phrase "that is a foreign company" is deemed to be replaced with "that is a foreign person"; and any other necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.