Registration and Transfer (a) The Registrar shall maintain, as agent of the Issuer for the purpose, at the Registrar’s office in London, a register for (i) registering and maintaining a record of the aggregate holdings of all DTC Global Securities and the International Global Securities, (ii) registering transfers between holders of the Global Securities, (iii) registering and maintaining a record of the aggregate holdings of all definitive registered Securities, (iv) registering transfers between holders of the definitive registered Securities and (v) registering and maintaining a record of any further issues of Securities pursuant to Section 9 hereof and any subsequent transfers thereof. In addition, the Registrar will (i) maintain and promptly update the respective Schedules to the DTC Global Securities and the International Global Securities, and (ii) ensure that the sum of the respective aggregate principal amounts shown by the latest entry in the respective Schedules to the DTC Global Securities and the International Global Securities does not exceed $1,500,000,000, plus the aggregate principal amount of any additional Securities issued by the Issuer in accordance with Section 9 hereof, at any one time. Upon presentation for the purpose at the said office of the Registrar of any Security duly endorsed by, or accompanied by delivery of a written instrument of transfer in form approved by the Registrar duly executed by, the registered holder of the Security, or the registered holder’s attorney thereunto duly authorized in writing, such Security shall be transferred upon such register and a new Security, bearing the guarantee of Japan in the form herein provided for, shall be authenticated and delivered in the name of the transferee. Transfers and exchanges of Securities shall be subject to such reasonable regulations as may be prescribed by the Issuer. Upon presentation for transfer or exchange of any Security in definitive form at any office of any transfer agent accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form approved by the Registrar duly executed by the registered holder or such registered holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, such Security and written instrument shall be forwarded to the office of the Registrar. In addition, any transfer agent shall provide to the Registrar such information as the Registrar may reasonably require in connection with the delivery by such transfer agent of Securities in the definitive form in exchange for other Securities.
