The incorporators must decide the following matters if the incorporators call an organizational meeting:
発起人は、創立総会を招集する場合には、次に掲げる事項を定めなければならない。
the date, time and place of the organizational meeting;
創立総会の日時及び場所
the purpose of the organizational meeting;
創立総会の目的である事項
that shareholders at incorporation who do not attend the organizational meeting may vote in writing, if so arranged;
that shareholders at incorporation who do not attend the organizational meeting may vote by electronic or magnetic means, if so arranged;
beyond what is set forth in the preceding items, any matters prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order.
前各号に掲げるもののほか、法務省令で定める事項
If the number of the shareholders at incorporation (excluding shareholders at incorporation who may not exercise votes on all matters which may be resolved at organizational meetings; the same applies in the following Article through Article 71) is one thousand or more, the incorporators must decide the matters set forth in item (iii) of the preceding paragraph.
発起人は、設立時株主(創立総会において決議をすることができる事項の全部につき議決権を行使することができない設立時株主を除く。次条から第七十一条までにおいて同じ。)の数が千人以上である場合には、前項第三号に掲げる事項を定めなければならない。
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electronic or magnetic means
「電磁的方法」
A method that uses an electronic data processing system or other information and communications technology, of a kind set by Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxiv)
organizational meeting
「創立総会」
The meeting of the shareholders at incorporation that the incorporators must call when a stock company is being formed with outside subscribers for its shares.
Short name set inArticle 65, paragraph (1)
shareholders at incorporation
「設立時株主」
A person who is to become a shareholder of the stock company when it is formed, having subscribed and paid for shares issued at incorporation.
Defined inArticle 65, paragraph (1)