Article 144Transfer Limits to Reserve Accounts for Bad Debts for Individually Assessed Loans or Other Claims

一The event that, for lendings and other claims (meaning lendings and other claims prescribed in Article 52, paragraph (1) of the Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) that a Resident prescribed in that paragraph holds on December 31 of that year (where the Resident dies in the course of the year, at the time of death; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), repayment has been deferred, or is to be made in installments, on the basis of any of the following grounds that have arisen with respect to the debtor pertaining to those lendings and other claims: the amount of those lendings and other claims other than the amount that is to be repaid by the day on which five years elapse from January 1 of the year following the year that includes the date on which those grounds arose (excluding the amount of a portion for which collection or repayment (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as "collection, etc.") is found to be expected through the exercise of a security interest or otherwise):

イa decision to authorize a reorganization plan;

ロa decision to authorize a rehabilitation plan;

ハa decision to authorize an arrangement in special liquidation;

ニthe occurrence of an event prescribed in Article 24-2, paragraph (1) (Events Equivalent to a Decision to Authorize a Rehabilitation Plan, etc.) of the Order for the Enforcement of the Corporation Tax Act;

ホgrounds specified by Ministry of Finance Order as equivalent to the grounds set out in (a) through (c);

二The event that, with regard to the debtor pertaining to lendings and other claims that a Resident prescribed in Article 52, paragraph (1) of the Act holds on December 31 of that year, collection, etc. of part of the amount of those lendings and other claims is found not to be expected due to a state of insolvency having continued for a considerable period and there being no prospect of improvement in the business the debtor conducts, great damage having arisen from a Disaster, a sudden change in economic conditions, or the like, or other grounds (excluding the case where the event set out in the preceding item has arisen with respect to those lendings and other claims): the amount equivalent to that part of the amount;

三The event that the following grounds have arisen with respect to the debtor pertaining to lendings and other claims that a Resident prescribed in Article 52, paragraph (1) of the Act holds on December 31 of that year (excluding the case where the event set out in item (i) has arisen with respect to those lendings and other claims, and the case where the provisions of that paragraph have been applied because the event set out in the preceding item has arisen): the amount equivalent to 50 percent of the amount of those lendings and other claims (excluding, from that amount, the amount of the portion that is not substantially regarded as a claim because there is an amount received from that debtor, and the amount of the portion for which collection, etc. is found to be expected through the exercise of a security interest, the performance of a guarantee obligation by a financial institution or guarantee agency, or otherwise):

イa petition for commencement of reorganization proceedings;

ロa petition for commencement of rehabilitation proceedings;

ハa petition to commence bankruptcy proceedings;

ニa petition for commencement of special liquidation;

ホgrounds specified by Ministry of Finance Order as equivalent to the grounds set out in (a) through (d);

四the event that, owing to long-term default in the performance of obligations by a foreign government, central bank or local government that is the debtor with respect to the lendings and other claims held, as of December 31 of that year, by a Resident referred to in Article 52, paragraph (1) of the Act, the economic value of those lendings and other claims has significantly decreased and it is found to be extremely difficult to receive repayment: the amount equivalent to 50 percent of the amount of those lendings and other claims (excluding, out of the amount of those lendings and other claims, the amount of the portion that is not substantially regarded as a claim because of amounts received from those persons and the amount of the portion for which collection, etc. is found to be expected through performance of a guarantee obligation or otherwise).