Article 231Keeping and Making Available for Inspection of the Lost Share Certificates Register
第二百三十一条（株券喪失登録簿の備置き及び閲覧等）
A share certificate-issuing company must keep the lost share certificates register at its head office (or, if it has a shareholder register administrator, at its business office).
Any person may submit the following requests at any time during the business hours of a share certificate-issuing company with respect to the lost share certificates register (limited to the portion in which the person has an interest). In these cases, the reasons for the request must be disclosed:
何人も、株券発行会社の営業時間内は、いつでも、株券喪失登録簿（利害関係がある部分に限る。）について、次に掲げる請求をすることができる。この場合においては、当該請求の理由を明らかにしてしなければならない。
if the lost share certificates register has been prepared in writing, a request for the review or copying of relevant document;
株券喪失登録簿が書面をもって作成されているときは、当該書面の閲覧又は謄写の請求
if the lost share certificates register has been prepared as an electronic or magnetic record, a request to inspect or copy anything that is used in a manner prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order to display the information recorded in that electronic or magnetic record.
株券喪失登録簿が電磁的記録をもって作成されているときは、当該電磁的記録に記録された事項を法務省令で定める方法により表示したものの閲覧又は謄写の請求
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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)
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)
shareholder register administrator
「株主名簿管理人」
A person whom a stock company engages to prepare, keep and otherwise handle its shareholder register on its behalf.
Defined inArticle 123, paragraph (1)