Article 23-3Submission of a Shelf Registration Statement

①If an issuer of securities that is planning a public offering or secondary distribution satisfies the requirements specified in Article 5, paragraph (4) and the total issue value or the total distribution value of the securities for which the issuer is planning the public offering or secondary distribution (hereinafter referred to as the "planned amount of issuance") is 100 million yen or more (if the securities for which the issuer is planning the public offering or secondary distribution are share option certificates, this includes when the amount calculated by adding the total amount to be paid in upon the exercise of share options under those share option certificates to the planned amount of issuance is 100 million yen or more), the issuer of securities may register that public offering or secondary distribution of securities by submitting a document that, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, states the particulars that are specified by Cabinet Office Order as necessary and appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors, including the period for which the issuer is planning the public offering or secondary distribution of the securities (hereinafter referred to as the "planned issuance period"), the class of the securities, the planned amount of issuance or the maximum outstanding balance, and the names of the principal financial instruments business operators or registered financial institutions that plan to underwrite the securities (such document is hereinafter referred to as a "shelf registration statement") to the Prime Minister; provided, however, that this does not apply if the issuer is planning a secondary distribution of securities that have been the subject of a solicitation with a view to issuing new securities or a solicitation with a view to delivering existing securities that fell under the category of an exclusive solicitation to qualified institutional investors set forth in Article 23-13, paragraph (1) (limited to an exclusive solicitation to qualified institutional investors to which the main clause of Article 23-13, paragraph (1) is applicable) (excluding a case in which disclosure has been made with regard to the securities), a secondary distribution of securities for professional investors (excluding a case in which disclosure has been made with regard to the securities), or a secondary distribution of securities that have been the subject of a solicitation with a view to issuing new securities or a solicitation with a view to delivering existing securities that fell under the category of a solicitation to a small number of investors set forth in Article 23-13, paragraph (4) (limited to a solicitation to a small number of investors to which the main clause of Article 23-13, paragraph (4) is applicable) (excluding a case in which disclosure has been made with regard to the securities).

③The provisions of Article 4, paragraphs (1) through (3) do not apply to a public offering or secondary distribution of the securities for which a registration under paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as a "shelf registration") has been made.

④A company that is the issuer of securities for which a shelf registration has been made may continue to submit annual securities reports and accompanying documents under Article 24, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 24, paragraph (5); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), even after the obligation to submit an annual securities report under Article 24, paragraph (1) extinguishes, if their submission is necessary to satisfy the requirements set forth in Article 5, paragraph (4).