Article 4Scope of Things Equivalent to Securities

一Rights to be represented on the Securities listed in Article 2, paragraph (1), items (i) through (xv) (Definitions) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act and on the Securities listed in item (xvii) of that paragraph (excluding those having the nature of the Securities listed in item (xvi) of that paragraph) (limited to those for which those Securities have not been issued, and excluding specified trust beneficial interests prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9) (Definitions) of the Payment Services Act (Act No. 59 of 2009));

二Equity interests of members of a general partnership company, limited partnership company, or limited liability company, equity interests of cooperative members or members of a cooperative, etc. prescribed in Article 2, item (vii) (Definitions) of the Corporation Tax Act (Act No. 34 of 1965), and other equity interests of investors in a corporation;

三The right to become a shareholder or a unitholder (meaning a unitholder prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (16) (Definitions) of the Act on Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations), the right to become a preferred equity investor (meaning a preferred equity investor in Article 13, paragraph (1) (Time of Becoming a Preferred Equity Investor, etc.) of the Act on Preferred Equity Investment by Cooperative Structured Financial Institution (Act No. 44 of 1993)), the right to become a specified member (meaning a specified member prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) (Definitions) of the Act on the Securitization of Assets (Act No. 105 of 1998)) or a preferred equity member (meaning a preferred equity member prescribed in Article 26 (Members) of that Act), and other rights to become an investor in a corporation.