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tender offeror's answer

対質問回答報告書(たいしつもんかいとうほうこくしょ)

The document a tender offeror (公開買付者) must submit to the Prime Minister answering the questions the target company put to it in its position statement (意見表明報告書), or giving its reasons for not answering, with other particulars a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) specifies.

certified evaluation

認証評価(にんしょうひょうか)

An evaluation of the overall state of a university's education and research, etc. (教育研究等) that, under Article 109, paragraph (2), the university is to receive at intervals a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, from a body certified by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (認証評価機関); paragraph (3) adds one for its professional and vocational universities, etc. or professional graduate schools.

specially related person

特別関係者(とくべつかんけいしゃ)

A person who has a special relationship a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies with the individual concerned.

government subsidy or its equivalent

国庫補助金等(こっこほじょきんとう)

A subsidy or grant from the national or a local government, or a similar payment a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, given for acquiring or improving fixed assets (including timber).

old age, etc. pension benefit

老齢等年金給付(ろうれいとうねんきんきゅうふ)

The old-age basic pension (老齢基礎年金) under the National Pension Act and other pensions under that Act or the Employees' Pension Insurance Act paid on account of old age, disability or death that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, together with other pensions like them paid on account of old age or retirement, disability or death that a Cabinet Order specifies; their payers (年金保険者) can be made to collect primary insured persons' premiums (special collection, 特別徴収) (Article 131).

amount equivalent to total monthly remuneration

総報酬月額相当額(そうほうしゅうげつがくそうとうがく)

The amount equivalent to total monthly remuneration: the sum of a beneficiary's standard monthly remuneration (標準報酬月額) and one twelfth of the standard bonus amounts (標準賞与額) for the year up to and including the month in question — for a Diet or local assembly member, and for an employed person aged 70 or over, amounts equivalent to these, for the former partly set by Cabinet Order (政令) — which Article 46, paragraph (1) uses to work out how much of an employees' old-age pension (老齢厚生年金) is suspended.

Council of Transport Policy, etc.

交通政策審議会等(こうつうせいさくしんぎかいとう)

The Council of Transport Policy (交通政策審議会), or a council set up in a District Transport Bureau (地方運輸局) that a Cabinet Order (政令) designates, which the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or the Director of a District Transport Bureau consults before deciding a specified minimum wage for mariners.

specified extraordinary Disaster occurrence date

特定非常災害発生日(とくていひじょうさいがいはっせいび)

The day a specified extraordinary disaster (特定非常災害) occurred, as fixed by the Cabinet Order (政令) designating it under Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Measures concerning Preservation of Rights and Interests of Victims of Specified Disaster.

commodity derivatives transaction-related business

商品デリバティブ取引関連業務(しょうひんでりばてぃぶとりひきかんれんぎょうむ)

In the chapter on investor protection funds (投資者保護基金), business relating to commodity-related market derivatives transactions brokerage, etc. (商品関連市場デリバティブ取引取次ぎ等).

life insurance benefit, etc.

生命保険金等(せいめいほけんきんとう)

In Article 86, insurance money and similar benefits under life insurance contracts of the kinds the Cabinet Order (政令) referred to in Article 225, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Income Tax Act specifies, paid in Japan; where the recipient is a nonresident or a foreign corporation, only those listed in Article 161, paragraph (1), item (xiv) or Article 209, item (ii) of that Act.

major holder of voting rights in a bank

銀行議決権大量保有者(ぎんこうぎけつけんたいりょうほゆうしゃ)

A person holding more than 5 percent of the total shareholder voting rights of a bank or of a bank holding company, other than the national government, local governments and similar corporations set by Cabinet Order (政令).

transfer, etc.

譲渡等(じょうととう)

In Article 70-6-8(16)(i) and (17)(i), the transfer or gift of special donated business assets (特例受贈事業用資産) by the donee under the gift tax deferral for business assets.

presiding official

主宰者(しゅさいしゃ)

The person who presides over a hearing (聴聞) under Article 19: an official the administrative agency (行政庁) designates, or another person a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.

confirmation letter

確認書(かくにんしょ)

In Articles 24-4-2 and 24-4-3, a document stating that the content of an annual securities report (有価証券報告書) has been confirmed as appropriate under the laws and regulations on financial instruments and exchange (金融商品取引法令), which the companies a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies among those filing such a report must file with it.

target company

対象者(たいしょうしゃ)

In the section on tender offers by persons other than the issuer and in Article 27-30-11, paragraph (4), the issuer of the share certificates, etc. (株券等) subject to a tender offer (公開買付け).

notification particulars

届出事項(とどけでじこう)

In Article 37-14(6) and (7), the particulars stated in a written notification for opening a tax-exempt account (非課税口座開設届出書) and the others a Ministry of Finance Order (財務省令) sets — with the person's individual number, where the person has already given it — that the head of the financial instruments business operator's office must send to the district tax office through the specified electronic data processing system.

specified domestic corporation

特定内国法人(とくていないこくほうじん)

In the section on enterprise tax (事業税), a domestic corporation (内国法人 — one with its main office or place of business in Japan) that has a place, of a kind a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, outside Japan where its business is carried on.

housing seismic retrofit

住宅耐震改修(じゅうたくたいしんかいしゅう)

In Articles 41-19-2 and 41-19-3, an extension, rebuilding, repair or remodelling made to improve the earthquake safety of a house an individual lives in that was built on or before 31 May 1981, carried out between 1 April 2014 and 31 December 2028 and certified as a Ministry of Finance Order (財務省令) provides.

Immigration Control Act

入管法(にゅうかんほう)

In Article 18-5, the short name for the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (Cabinet Order No. 319 of 1951).

substance subject to notice

通知対象物(つうちたいしょうぶつ)

A substance Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as one that could endanger workers or harm their health, or a substance under Article 56, paragraph (1) (one whose manufacture needs the permission of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare); Article 57-2 governs the notice of its name, ingredients, properties and other matters given to the person it is transferred or provided to.