Article 149Delivery of Documents Showing the Information Entered in the Shareholder Register
第百四十九条(株主名簿の記載事項を記載した書面の交付等)
A pledgee whose information as set forth in the items of the preceding Article has been entered or recorded in the shareholder register (hereinafter referred to as a "registered pledgee of shares") may file a request with the stock company to be issued a document showing the information set forth in the items of that Article which has been entered or recorded in the shareholder register with respect to that registered pledgee of shares, or to be provided with the electronic or magnetic record in which that information has been recorded.
The documents in the preceding paragraph must be affixed with the signature, or name and seal, of the representative director of the stock company (the representative executive officer for a company with nominating committee, etc.; the same applies in the following paragraph).
前項の書面には、株式会社の代表取締役(指名委員会等設置会社にあっては、代表執行役。次項において同じ。)が署名し、又は記名押印しなければならない。
With respect to an electronic or magnetic record referred to in paragraph (1), the representative director of the stock company must implement measures in lieu of the affixation of signature, or name and seal prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order.
The provisions of the preceding three paragraphs do not apply to a share certificate-issuing company.
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company with nominating committee, etc.machine translation
「指名委員会等設置会社」
A stock company with a nominating committee, an audit committee and a remuneration committee, each made up of directors.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xii)· applies throughout the law
electronic or magnetic record
「電磁的記録」
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive directly, of a kind that Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) specifies as used in computer processing.
Defined inArticle 26, paragraph (2)
representative director
「代表取締役」
A director who represents a stock company, acting in its name toward everyone else.
Defined inArticle 47, paragraph (1)
share certificate-issuing company
「株券発行会社」
A stock company whose articles of incorporation provide that it issues share certificates for its shares (for a company with class shares, for shares of every class).
Defined inArticle 117, paragraph (7)
registered pledgee of shares
「登録株式質権者」
A person holding a pledge over shares who is entered as pledgee in the company's shareholder register.
Short name set inArticle 149, paragraph (1)