Board of directors must appoint representative executive officers from among the executive officers. In these cases, if there is only one executive officer, that person is to be regarded as having been appointed as the representative executive officer.
取締役会は、執行役の中から代表執行役を選定しなければならない。この場合において、執行役が一人のときは、その者が代表執行役に選定されたものとする。
A representative executive officer may be removed at any time by a resolution at the board of directors meeting.
代表執行役は、いつでも、取締役会の決議によって解職することができる。
The provisions of Article 349, paragraphs (4) and (5) apply mutatis mutandis to representative executive officers, the provisions of Article 352 apply mutatis mutandis to a person appointed by a provisional disposition order provided for in Article 56 of the Civil Provisional Remedies Act to perform the duties of executive officers or representative executive officers on behalf of the same, and the provisions of Article 401, paragraphs (2) through (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the cases where there are no representative executive officers in office, or where there is a vacancy which results in a shortfall in the number of executive officers prescribed in the articles of incorporation, respectively.
第三百四十九条第四項及び第五項の規定は代表執行役について、第三百五十二条の規定は民事保全法第五十六条に規定する仮処分命令により選任された執行役又は代表執行役の職務を代行する者について、第四百一条第二項から第四項までの規定は代表執行役が欠けた場合又は定款で定めた代表執行役の員数が欠けた場合について、それぞれ準用する。
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articles of incorporation
定款
A company's own basic rules, written by its founders when it is formed: at least its purpose, its trade name, where its head office is, the value of the property contributed at incorporation and who the founders are (Companies Act, Article 27). A stock company's must be certified by a notary before it takes effect (Article 30, paragraph (1)), and can later be changed by a resolution of the shareholders meeting (Article 466). Many rules in the Act apply "unless the articles of incorporation provide otherwise", so a company's articles decide a great deal of how the Act applies to it.
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 26, 27, 30, 466, 575 as a reference.
board of directors
取締役会
The body made up of all of a stock company's directors (Companies Act, Article 362, paragraph (1)). It decides how the company's business is carried out, supervises the directors, and appoints and removes the representative directors (代表取締役) (Article 362, paragraphs (2) and (3)) — except in a company with a nominating committee and the other committees (指名委員会等設置会社), where it appoints representative executive officers (代表執行役) instead (Articles 416 and 420). Some decisions, such as disposing of important assets or borrowing a large amount, it normally may not hand to the directors (Article 362, paragraph (4)). A company with an audit and supervisory committee (監査等委員会設置会社) can hand more of them to directors (Article 399-13, paragraphs (5) and (6)), and a company with the committees hands them to executive officers (執行役) rather than directors (Article 416, paragraphs (3) and (4)). A company chooses in its articles of incorporation whether to have one (Article 326, paragraph (2)), but a public company (公開会社), among others, must (Article 327, paragraph (1)): a public company is one whose articles of incorporation let at least some of its shares change hands without the company's approval (Article 2, item (v)). A company with a board must have at least three directors (Article 331, paragraph (5)).
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 2, 326, 327, 331, 362, 399-13, 416, 420 as a reference.