The Minister of Finance and the competent minister for the business must, in accordance with the category of inward direct investment or equivalent action or specified acquisition stated in the following items, seek the opinion of the Prime Minister, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the heads of other relevant administrative organs if they find it necessary in order to confirm whether that inward direct investment or equivalent action or specified acquisition falls under what is prescribed in the relevant item.
財務大臣及び事業所管大臣は、次の各号に掲げる対内直接投資等又は特定取得の区分に応じ、当該対内直接投資等又は特定取得が当該各号に定めるものに該当するかどうかを確認するため必要があると認めるときは、内閣総理大臣、外務大臣その他の関係行政機関の長の意見を求めなければならない。
inward direct investment or equivalent action prescribed in Article 27, paragraph (1) that is subject to examination under the provisions of Article 27, paragraph (3) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27-4, paragraph (2)): inward direct investment or equivalent action that is a matter of national security or a similar concern;
第二十七条第三項（第二十七条の四第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による審査をする第二十七条第一項に規定する対内直接投資等 国の安全等に係る対内直接投資等
a specified acquisition prescribed in Article 28, paragraph (1) that is subject to examination under the provisions of Article 28, paragraph (3) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 28-4, paragraph (2)): a specified acquisition that is a matter of national security.
第二十八条第三項（第二十八条の四第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による審査をする第二十八条第一項に規定する特定取得 国の安全に係る特定取得
inward direct investment or equivalent actionmachine translation
「対内直接投資等」
An inward direct investment or equivalent action as defined in Article 26, paragraph (2) — an act of a foreign investor such as acquiring shares or equity in an unlisted company, acquiring shares or voting rights in a listed or equivalent company (上場会社等) that bring a holding to at least a percentage a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, consenting to a major change in a company's business, setting up a branch in Japan, lending a large sum for more than a year to a corporation with its principal office in Japan, or taking over a business from a Japanese corporation — other than one a Cabinet Order excludes in view of inheritance, bequest, corporate merger or other circumstances.
Defined inArticle 27, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article and in Article 29, paragraphs (1) to (4); Article 55-5; Article 69-2, paragraph (2); and Article 70, paragraph (1)
inward direct investment or equivalent action that is a matter of national security or a similar concernmachine translation
「国の安全等に係る対内直接投資等」
An inward direct investment or equivalent action (対内直接投資等) of any of the kinds Article 27, paragraph (3) lists: one likely to harm national security, disturb public order or hinder public safety, or to seriously harm the smooth running of Japan's economy, where no treaty obligation to remove restrictions covers it; one by an investor from a country with no investment treaty with Japan that must be changed or stopped to match the treatment Japanese investors receive there; or one that must be changed or stopped because it amounts, in whole or part, to a capital transaction (資本取引) requiring permission under Article 21.
Short name set inArticle 27, paragraph (3)
specified acquisition
「特定取得」
A specified acquisition as defined in Article 26, paragraph (3) — acquiring shares or equity in a company other than a listed or equivalent company (上場会社等) by transfer from a non-resident individual, a foreign corporation or another of the persons listed in Article 26, paragraph (1) — other than one a Cabinet Order (政令) excludes in view of inheritance, bequest, corporate merger or other circumstances.
Defined inArticle 28, paragraph (1)
specified acquisition that is a matter of national security
「国の安全に係る特定取得」
A specified acquisition (特定取得) highly likely to harm national security, limited to one made by a foreign investor from a country party to a multilateral treaty or other international agreement on specified acquisitions that Japan has joined and a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, where that agreement imposes no obligation to remove restrictions on it, or by a foreign investor from another country where there would be no such obligation if that country were a party.
Short name set inArticle 28, paragraph (3)
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.