①Where an application for a registration of a description is filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, or where a registrar intends to make a registration of a description by their own authority pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, if they find it necessary, the registrar may examine the matters concerning the description of the real property.

②Where a registrar conducts the examination referred to in the preceding paragraph and if they find it necessary, they may, only during the period from sunrise to sunset, inspect the real property, request the owner of the real property or other persons concerned to present a document or matters that are recorded in an electronic or magnetic record and indicated by a method specified by Ministry of Justice Order, or ask these persons questions. In this case, the registrar must carry their identification card and present it if requested to do so by any person concerned.

Where it is possible for a heading-section owner or registered holder of ownership to be an applicant for a registration of a description, if an inheritance or other general succession is made with regard to the heading-section owner or registered holder of ownership, their heirs or other general successors may file an application for the registration of the description.

For a registration of change or a registration of correction regarding the name or address of a heading-section owner, no person other than the heading-section owner may file an application.

No registration may be made with regard to a change to a heading-section owner or their share unless a registration of preservation of ownership is made in relation to the real property, and subsequently a procedure for registration of transfer of the ownership is performed.

①Where the owner of real property is not the same as the heading-section owner of that real property, no person other than the owner of the real property may file an application for a registration of correction regarding the heading-section owner.

②In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the owner of the real property may not file an application without the consent of the heading-section owner.

③For a registration of correction regarding the share of a co-owner who is a heading-section owner of real property, no person other than the co-owner may file an application.

④A co-owner who makes a registration of correction referred to in the preceding paragraph may not file an application without the consent of the other co-owners whose share is to be corrected as a result of the registration of correction.

①Beyond what is set forth in the items of Article 27, the matters to be registered for a registration of a description of land are to be as follows:

②The necessary matters concerning the land category referred to in item (iii) of the preceding paragraph and the parcel area referred to in item (iv) of the same paragraph are specified by Ministry of Justice Order.

A registry office must specify the districts in which parcel numbers should be assigned (referred to as the "numbered districts" in Article 39, paragraph (2) and Article 41, item (ii)), and assign a parcel number to each parcel of land in such districts, as provided for by Ministry of Justice Order.

A person who has acquired ownership of newly created land or land for which no heading registration must file an application for a heading registration within one month from the date of the acquisition of ownership.

①If there has been a change to the land category or parcel area, the heading-section owner or registered holder of ownership must file an application for a registration of change regarding the land category or parcel area within one month from the day on which such change occurred.

②A person who has become a heading-section owner or registered holder of ownership after there has been a change to the land category or parcel area must file an application for a registration of change regarding the land category or parcel area within one month from the day on which a registration of correction regarding the heading-section owner or registration of ownership was made with respect to such person.

For a registration of correction regarding the matters to be registered set forth in Article 27, item (i), item (ii) or item (iv) (in the case of the matters referred to in item (iv), limited to those specified by Ministry of Justice Order) or Article 34, paragraph (1), item (i), item (iii) or item (iv), no person other than the heading-section owner or registered holder of ownership may file an application.

①No person other than the heading-section owner or registered holder of ownership may file an application for registration of a parcel subdivision or parcel consolidation.

②Even in the absence of the application referred to in the preceding paragraph, if part of a parcel of land has come to fall within a different land category or a different numbered district (including the smallest district called "aza" which is not a numbered district; the same applies in Article 41, item (ii)), a registrar must make a registration of a subdivision of such parcel of land by their own authority.

③Even in the absence of the application referred to in paragraph (1), if a registrar finds it necessary in order to prepare a map referred to in Article 14, paragraph (1), they may make a registration of a parcel subdivision or parcel consolidation, by their own authority, only where no objection is made by the heading-section owner or registered holder of ownership prescribed in paragraph (1).

In cases where a registrar makes a registration of a parcel subdivision in relation to the land for which a registration of a right other than a registration of ownership is made, and if together with the application information regarding the registration of the parcel subdivision they are provided with information certifying that the registered holder of the right pertaining to the registration of the right (if the relevant registration of the right is a registration of a mortgage and mortgage securities have been issued, including the holder or endorser of the mortgage securities) has consented to having the right be extinguished for any of the subdivisions of the land (when a registration is made concerning a third party's right established over the relevant right, limited to the cases in which the information certifying that the third party has given consent is provided together), as provided for by Ministry of Justice Order, they must make a registration to the effect that the right has been extinguished in relation to the land for which the consent has been given.

None of the following registrations of parcel consolidation may be made:

In the event of the loss of land, the heading-section owner or registered holder of ownership must file an application for a registration of the loss of the land within one month from the date of the loss.

①The matters to be registered for a registration of a description of land within a river area referred to in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the River Act (Act No. 167 of 1964) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 100, paragraph (1) of the same Act; the same applies in item (i)) are to include, beyond what is set forth in the items of Article 27 and the items of Article 34, paragraph (1), a statement to the effect that the land in question is the land referred to in item (i), and in the case of the land set forth in items (ii) through (v), also include each of the statements specified in the respective items:

②If the whole or part of a parcel of land has become land within a river area referred to in item (i) of the preceding paragraph, land within a special area of a high-grade bank referred to in item (ii) of the same paragraph, land within a greenbelt area referred to in item (iii) of the same paragraph, land within a specified greenbelt area referred to in item (iv) of the same paragraph or land within a three-dimensional river area referred to in item (v) of the same paragraph, the river administrator must commission a registry office to make a registration to that effect without delay.

③If the whole or part of a parcel of land has ceased to be land within a river area referred to in paragraph (1), item (i), land within a special area of a high-grade bank referred to in item (ii) of the same paragraph, land within a greenbelt area referred to in item (iii) of the same paragraph, land within a specified greenbelt area referred to in item (iv) of the same paragraph or land within a three-dimensional river area referred to in item (v) of the same paragraph, the river administrator must commission a registry office to cancel the registration to that effect without delay.

④If commissioning a registration pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs in relation to part of a parcel of land, the river administrator may commission a registry office to make a registration of the parcel subdivision of the land on behalf of the heading-section owner or registered holder of ownership of the land or their heirs or other general successors.

⑤If the whole of a parcel of land within a river area referred to in each item of paragraph (1) is lost, the river administrator must commission a registry office to make a registration of loss of the land without delay.

⑥If part of a parcel of land within a river area referred to in each item of paragraph (1) is lost, the river administrator must commission a registry office to make a registration of change regarding the parcel area of the land without delay.

①Beyond what is set forth in the items of Article 27, the matters to be registered for a registration of a description of a building are to be as follows:

②The necessary matters concerning the type, structure and floor area of the building referred to in items (iii), (v) and (vii) of the preceding paragraph are specified by Ministry of Justice Order.