Article 7Voluntary Submission of Amended Statements

①If, on or after the day on which a notification under Article 4, paragraphs (1) through (3) is filed and before the day on which that notification comes into effect, a material particular that is required to be stated in a statement or other document under Article 5, paragraph (1) or paragraph (13) changes or any other circumstance arises that is specified by Cabinet Office Order as necessitating that the content of such documents be amended in the public interest or for the protection of investors, the person filing the notification (or, if it is after a company is incorporated through the issuance of the Securities for which the notification was filed, the company; the same applies hereinafter) must submit an amended statement to the Prime Minister. The same also applies in the absence of such a reason, if the person filing the notification finds there to be something in the statement or other document that necessitates an amendment.

②The provisions of Article 5, paragraphs (6) through (9) apply mutatis mutandis to cases where a statement-filing foreign company submits an amendment of the foreign company statements under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

④The provisions of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act and related regulations apply to cases where a company submitting a regulated securities registration statement submits, with regard to regulated securities associated with a document that has been deemed to be the statement set forth in Article 5, paragraph (1) pursuant to paragraph (12) of that Article (limited to those for which public offering or secondary distribution has already been being conducted continuously), a semiannual securities report (or an annual securities report, in cases where the specific period for the regulated securities does not exceed six months) (hereinafter referred to as a "semiannual securities report, etc." in this paragraph and the following paragraph), by deeming the semiannual securities report, etc. to be the amendment report set forth in paragraph (1) for the statement, and deeming submission of the former to be submission of the latter.

⑤The provisions of paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to cases where a company submitting a regulated securities registration statement (limited to one that has submitted the semiannual securities report, etc. set forth in the preceding paragraph) submits an amendment report for the semiannual securities report, etc. pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 24-5, paragraph (5) (Article 24-2, paragraph (1) in cases where the semiannual securities report, etc. is an Annual securities report) following the deemed replacement of terms.