A registered agency for regulating transmission must, within three months after the end of every business year, prepare an inventory of assets, a balance sheet and a profit and loss statement or income and expenditure account statement, and a business report (including an electronic or magnetic record (any record which is produced by electronic, magnetic, or any other means unrecognizable by natural perceptive function, and is used for data-processing by a computer; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) in cases where electronic or magnetic records are produced instead of those paper documents. In the following paragraph and Article 38, referred to as "financial statements, etc.") and retain thereof for a five-year period at its office.
A person or other interested person who received specified electronic mail, may, whenever within the business hours of a registered agency for regulating transmission, make the following requests. However, when making the request in item (ii) or item (iv), fees set forth by the registered agency for regulating transmission must be paid.
where financial statements, etc. are written documents, a request for inspection of the document or a copy thereof;
財務諸表等が書面をもって作成されているときは、当該書面の閲覧又は謄写の請求
a request for certified transcript or abstract of the documents under the preceding item;
前号の書面の謄本又は抄本の請求
where financial statements, etc. are produced as electronic or magnetic records, a request for inspection of or to copy the matters recorded on the electronic or magnetic records which are displayed in a manner stipulated in the applicable Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and Cabinet Office Order;
a request to provide the matters recorded on the electronic or magnetic records under the preceding item in an electronic or magnetic manner stipulated by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and Cabinet Office Order or a request for issuance of written documents containing those matters.