The particulars to be stated or recorded in business reports and annexed detailed statements which a bank holding company prepares pursuant to the provisions of Article 435, paragraph (2) (Preparation and Retention of Financial Statements) of the Companies Act are specified by Cabinet Office Order.

①If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of a bank's services, the Prime Minister may request the bank holding company that has a bank as its subsidiary company to report or submit materials that are to serve as a reference for the status of business and property of that bank.

②If the Prime Minister requests a bank to make a report or submit materials pursuant to the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (1) or requests the bank holding company that has the bank as its subsidiary company to make a report or submit materials pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and finds it to be particularly necessary, the Prime Minister may, to the extent necessary, ask the subsidiary corporation, etc. of that bank holding company (meaning a subsidiary company or a corporation specified by Cabinet Office Order as a corporation whose management is controlled by that bank holding company, and excluding the bank in question; the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraphs (2) and (5) of the following Article) or the person that a bank holding company has entrusted with its services (including a person further entrusted by that entrusted person (including entrustment at two or more degrees of separation from the original entrustment); the same applies in the following paragraph, and paragraphs (2) and (5) of the following Article) to make a report or submit materials that are to serve as a reference for the status of business or property of that bank or bank holding company.

③The subsidiary corporation, etc. of a bank holding company or the person that a bank holding company has entrusted with its services may refuse to make a report or submit materials pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph if it has legitimate grounds for doing so.

①If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of a bank's services, the Prime Minister may have relevant officials enter the business office or other facilities of the bank holding company that has a bank as its subsidiary company, have those officials ask questions about the status of business or property of the bank or the bank holding company, and have them inspect the books, documents, and any other articles of the bank holding company.

②In entering a facility, conducting questioning or inspection at a bank pursuant to the provisions of Article 25, paragraph (1), or entering a facility, conducting questioning, or inspection at the bank holding company that has the bank as its subsidiary company pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if the Prime Minister finds it to be particularly necessary, the Prime Minister may, to the extent necessary, have relevant officials enter the business office or other facilities of a subsidiary corporation, etc. of the bank holding company or the business office or other facilities of the person that a bank holding company has entrusted with its services, have those officials ask questions about any particulars that are required in relation to the questioning or inspection of the bank or the bank holding company, and have them inspect its books, documents, and any other objects.

③In the case referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, the officials must carry an identification card, and must present it if a person concerned requests them to do so.

④The authority under paragraph (1) or (2) must not be construed as being granted for criminal investigation purposes.

⑤The provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the questioning and inspection pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the subsidiary corporation, etc. of a bank holding company or of the person that a bank holding company has entrusted with its services.

①If the Prime Minister finds it to be particularly necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of services of a bank that is the subsidiary company of a bank holding company, in light of the status of business of the bank holding company or the status of property of the bank holding company and its subsidiary companies, etc., the Prime Minister may indicate to the bank holding company the particulars for which measures are required to be taken and the due date for taking them, request it to submit an improvement plan for ensuring soundness in bank management, or order it to change the improvement plan that has been submitted, or may order measures that are necessary for supervision to be taken, to the extent necessary.

②An order pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (including the request to submit an improvement plan; the same applies in the following paragraph) that is issued when it is found necessary to do so in light of adequacy in the equity capital of the bank holding company and its subsidiary companies, etc. must be an order specified by Cabinet Office Order or Ministry of Finance Order in accordance with the category of adequacy in the equity capital of the bank holding company and its subsidiary companies, etc., as specified by Cabinet Office Order or Ministry of Finance Order.

③If the Prime Minister has issued the order pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) to a bank holding company, and finds it to be particularly necessary in light of the implementation status of the measures under that order, the Prime Minister may order a bank that is the subsidiary company of the bank holding company to take the necessary measures for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of its services.

①If a bank holding company violates laws and regulations, its articles of incorporation, or a disposition by the Prime Minister based on the applicable laws and regulations, or commits an act that harms the public interest, the Prime Minister may order the bank holding company to dismiss its director, executive officer, accounting advisor, company auditor, or accounting auditor, order to take other measures that are necessary for supervision, or revoke the authorization referred to in Article 52-17, paragraph (1) or the proviso to Article 52-17, paragraph (3) for the bank holding company, or may order a bank that is the subsidiary company of that bank holding company to suspend all or part of its services. In such a case, the authorization for incorporation referred in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to have been granted to the bank holding company incorporated by obtaining that authorization.

②If a bank holding company has its authorization referred to in Article 52-17, paragraph (1) or the proviso to Article 52-17, paragraph (3) revoked pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, it must take measures that is required to be taken so that it is no longer a holding company that has a bank as its subsidiary company, within the period designated by the Prime Minister.

③If the measures provided for in the preceding paragraph are taken, and the company that has taken the measures is still the holder of a number of voting rights in the bank which is equal to or greater than the major shareholder threshold, the day on which those measures are taken is deemed to be the date on which the ground referred to in those provisions arose, and the provisions of Article 52-9, paragraph (2) apply.

④If a holding company that has a bank as its subsidiary company falls under one of the following items and the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary, the Prime Minister may order the bank that is the subsidiary company of the holding company to suspend all or part of its services:

①If the Prime Minister finds that a certified bank holding company no longer satisfies the criteria prescribed in Article 52-23-2, paragraph (7), the Prime Minister may order the certified bank holding company to take measures necessary to satisfy the criteria by indicating the due date by which it is required to take the measures, or revoke the certification referred to in that paragraph.

②Unless a bank holding company whose certification referred to in Article 52-23-2, paragraph (7) has been revoked pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph obtains the authorization by the Prime Minister to continue to have as its specified bank holding company subsidiary the company which is engaged in special advanced banking services and which the bank holding company has as its specified bank holding company subsidiary, the bank holding company is required to take the measures that is required to be taken so that the company is no longer its specified bank holding company subsidiary by the last day of the one-year period that begins on the date of revocation of the certification.

①A merger in which bank holding companies are all or some of the parties (limited to a merger in which a company that was a bank holding company before the merger survives as a bank holding company after the merger) does not become effective without the authorization by the Prime Minister.

②Except as specified by Cabinet Order, a company split to which a bank holding company is a party (limited to a company split in which the bank holding company that has its business succeeded to or the bank holding company that succeeds to a business continues to exist as a bank holding company after the company split) does not become effective without the authorization by the Prime Minister.

③Except as specified by Cabinet Order, a business transfer or acquisition in which a bank holding company transfers or acquires all or a part of its business (limited to a transfer or acquisition in which the bank holding company that transfers or acquires the business continues to exist as a bank holding company even after the transfer or acquisition) does not become effective without the authorization by the Prime Minister.

④The provisions of Article 52-18, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis when an application for the authorization referred to in one of the preceding three paragraphs is filed.