A company may prescribe any one of the following methods as the method of public notice in its articles of incorporation:
官報に掲載する方法
publication in Official Gazette;
時事に関する事項を掲載する日刊新聞紙に掲載する方法
publication in a daily newspaper that publishes matters on current affairs; or
A foreign company may prescribe any one of the methods set forth in the items of the preceding paragraph as the method of public notice.
会社又は外国会社が第一項第三号に掲げる方法を公告方法とする旨を定める場合には、電子公告を公告方法とする旨を定めれば足りる。この場合においては、事故その他やむを得ない事由によって電子公告による公告をすることができない場合の公告方法として、同項第一号又は第二号に掲げる方法のいずれかを定めることができる。
If a company or a foreign company prescribes to the effect that the method set forth in paragraph (1), item (iii) is to be the method of public notice, it is sufficient to prescribe to the effect that electronic public notice is the method of public notice. In these cases, the method set forth in item (i) or item (ii) of that paragraph may be prescribed as the method of public notice for cases where it is unable to give public notice by way of electronic public notice due to an accident or other unavoidable circumstances.
The method of public notice of a company or a foreign company that does not have the provisions under the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) is the method referred to in paragraph (1), item (i).