A stock company surviving an absorption-type merger must, without delay after the effective day, prepare documents detailing the rights and obligations that the stock company surviving the absorption-type merger succeeded to by transfer from the company disappearing in the absorption-type merger through the absorption-type merger and any other information prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order as concerning an absorption-type merger, or electronic or magnetic records in which the information has been recorded.

The stock company succeeding in an absorption-type split (limited to the stock company succeeding in the absorption-type split where the limited liability company effects the absorption-type company split) must, without delay after the effective day, prepare, jointly with the limited liability company splitting in the absorption-type split, documents detailing the rights and obligations that the stock company succeeding in the absorption-type split succeeded to by transfer from the limited liability company splitting in the absorption-type split through the absorption-type company split and any other information prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order as concerning an absorption-type company split, or electronic or magnetic records in which the information has been recorded.

Each of the surviving stock companies, etc. set forth in the following items must, for a period of six months from the effective day, keep what are specified respectively in those items at its head office:

Shareholders and creditors of the stock company surviving an absorption-type merger may make the following requests to the stock company surviving the absorption-type merger at any time during its business hours;provided, however, that the fees designated by the stock company surviving the absorption-type merger are required to be paid in order to make the requests referred to in item (ii) or item (iv):

The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to the stock company succeeding in an absorption-type split. In these cases, the phrase "shareholders and creditors" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "shareholders, creditors and any other interested parties", and the term "item (i) of the preceding paragraph" in the items of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "item (ii) of the preceding paragraph".

The provisions of paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the wholly owning parent stock company resulting from a share exchange. In these cases, the phrase "shareholders and creditors" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "shareholders and creditors (or, if monies, etc. to be delivered to shareholders of the wholly owned subsidiary company resulting from a share exchange are limited to shares in the wholly owning parent stock company resulting from the share exchange or those prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order as being equivalent thereto (excluding the case prescribed in Article 768, paragraph (1), item (iv), (c)), shareholders of the wholly owning parent stock company resulting from the share exchange)", and the term "item (i) of the preceding paragraph" in the items of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "item (iii) of the preceding paragraph".