(d) In case at any time the Fiscal Agent, the Registrar or any other Agent shall resign, or shall be removed, or shall become incapable of acting, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or shall file a voluntary petition in bankruptcy or make an assignment for the benefit of its creditors or consent to the appointment of a receiver of all or any substantial part of its property, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay or meet its debts as they mature, or if an order of any court shall be entered approving any petition filed by or against it under the provisions of Chapter 7 or 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code or under the provisions of any similar legislation, or if a receiver or custodian of it or of all or any substantial part of its property shall be appointed or if any public officer shall have taken charge or control of the Fiscal Agent, the Registrar or any other Agent or of its property or affairs, for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, a successor Fiscal Agent, successor Registrar (qualified as aforesaid) or successor of any other Agent shall be appointed by the Issuer and Japan, by an instrument in writing, filed with the successor Fiscal Agent, successor Registrar or successor of such other Agent, as the case may be. Upon the appointment as aforesaid of a successor Fiscal Agent, successor Registrar or successor of any other Agent and acceptance by such successor Fiscal Agent, successor Registrar or successor of such other Agent, as the case may be, of such appointment, the Fiscal Agent, the Registrar or such other Agent so superseded shall cease to be the Fiscal Agent, the Registrar or such other Agent hereunder.
(e) Any successor Fiscal Agent, Registrar or successor of any other Agent appointed hereunder shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to its predecessor and to the Issuer and Japan an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon such successor Fiscal Agent, successor Registrar or successor of any other Agent, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the authority, rights, powers, trusts, immunities, duties and obligations of such predecessor with like effect as if originally named as Fiscal Agent, Registrar or any other Agent, as the case may be, hereunder, and such predecessor, upon payment to it of its charges and disbursements then unpaid, shall thereupon become obligated to transfer, deliver and pay over, and such successor Fiscal Agent, successor Registrar or successor of any other Agent shall be entitled to receive, all monies, securities or other property on deposit with or held by such predecessor, as Fiscal Agent, Registrar or any other Agent hereunder, as the case may be. The Issuer and Japan shall give notice of the appointment of a successor Fiscal Agent, successor Registrar or successor of any other Agent to holders of Securities by prompt publication at least once in a daily newspaper in the English language of general circulation in The City of New York (expected to be the Wall Street Journal) and in a daily newspaper in the English language of general circulation in London, England (expected to be the Financial Times), provided that for so long as the Securities are held in book-entry form such notices may be given by delivery of the relevant notice to DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream, for communication by them to their respective participants in substitution for publication in any such newspaper. In addition, so long as the Securities are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the rules of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange so require, the Issuer shall cause the Fiscal Agent on behalf of the Issuer at the Issuer’s cost to publish notices in a leading newspaper having a general circulation in Luxembourg (which is expected to be Luxemburger Wort) or on the website of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange at www.bourse.lu.
(f) Any corporation or bank into which the Fiscal Agent or its U.S. Representative, the Registrar hereunder or any other Agent may be merged or converted, or any corporation or bank with which the Fiscal Agent or its U.S. Representative, the Registrar or any other Agent may be consolidated, or any corporation or bank resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Fiscal Agent or its U.S. Representative, the Registrar or any other Agent shall be a party, or any corporation or bank to which the Fiscal Agent or its U.S. Representative, the Registrar or any other Agent shall sell or otherwise transfer all or substantially all of the assets and business of the Fiscal Agent or its U.S. Representative, the Registrar or such Agent, as the case may be, provided that it shall be qualified as aforesaid, shall be the successor Fiscal Agent or its U.S. Representative, successor Registrar or successor of any other Agent, as the case may be, under this Agreement without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.
9. FURTHER ISSUES. The Issuer may from time to time, without notice to or the consent of the registered holders of the Securities, create and issue further securities ranking pari passu with the Securities in all respects (or in all respects except for the payment of interest accruing prior to the issue date of such further securities or except for the first payment of interest following the issue date of such further securities) and so that such further securities shall be consolidated and form a single series with the Securities and shall have the same terms as to status, redemption or otherwise as the Securities. Any further securities shall be issued with the benefit of an agreement supplemental to this Agreement.
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