If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary and appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors as concerns the state of a credit rating agency's business operations, the Prime Minister may, to the extent necessary, order the credit rating agency to change its business methods or order it to take other measures that are necessary for improving the state of its business operations.
内閣総理大臣は、信用格付業者の業務の運営の状況に関し、公益又は投資者保護のため必要かつ適当であると認めるときは、その必要の限度において、当該信用格付業者に対し、業務の方法の変更その他業務の運営の状況の改善に必要な措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。
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credit rating agency
「信用格付業者」
A person registered with the Prime Minister under Article 66-27 to carry on credit rating services (信用格付業).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (36)· applies throughout the law
Prime Minister
内閣総理大臣
The head of the Cabinet. Designated by the Diet from among its own members, and appointed by the Emperor on that designation (Articles 67 and 6). The Prime Minister appoints and may dismiss the other Ministers of State at will, and a majority of them must be members of the Diet (Article 68). No Minister of State can be subjected to legal action while in office without the Prime Minister's consent (Article 75).
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 6, 67, 68, 75 and Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan as a reference.