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新株予約権
A right that entitles its holder, by exercising it against a stock company, to receive shares of that company.
株式会社に対して行使することにより当該株式会社の株式の交付を受けることができる権利
会社
Any of the four kinds of company this Act governs: a stock company (株式会社), a general partnership company (合名会社), a limited partnership company (合資会社) or a limited liability company (合同会社).
株式会社、合名会社、合資会社又は合同会社
社債
A money claim against a company, arising from an allotment the company makes under this Act, that is to be repaid according to the terms set under Article 676.
この法律の規定により会社が行う割当てにより発生する当該会社を債務者とする金銭債権であって、第六百七十六条各号に掲げる事項についての定めに従い償還されるもの
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.
電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によっては認識することができない方式で作られる記録であって、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるものとして法務省令で定めるもの
A stock company that is being wound up, which is treated as still existing for the purposes of the liquidation until the liquidation is completed.
General partnership companies, limited partnership companies and limited liability companies taken together: the three kinds of company under this Act that are owned by members rather than by shareholders.
種類株式発行会社
A stock company that issues two or more classes of shares with different terms on the matters listed in Article 108, paragraph (1), such as dividends of surplus or voting rights.
剰余金の配当その他の第百八条第一項各号に掲げる事項について内容の異なる二以上の種類の株式を発行する株式会社
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.
指名委員会、監査委員会及び報酬委員会（以下「指名委員会等」という。）を置く株式会社
新株予約権付社債
A stock company that has an audit and supervisory committee, made up of directors.
監査等委員会を置く株式会社
取締役会設置会社
A stock company that has a board of directors, or that this Act requires to have one.
取締役会を置く株式会社又はこの法律の規定により取締役会を置かなければならない株式会社
A member of the audit and supervisory committee of a company with audit and supervisory committee.
監査等委員会の委員
The stock company that carries out a partial share exchange, acquiring another stock company's shares in exchange for its own.
株式交付をする株式会社
A meeting of the shareholders who hold a particular class of shares in a company with class shares.
種類株主（種類株式発行会社におけるある種類の株式の株主をいう。以下同じ。）の総会
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).
電子情報処理組織を使用する方法その他の情報通信の技術を利用する方法であって法務省令で定めるもの
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).
その株式（種類株式発行会社にあっては、全部の種類の株式）に係る株券を発行する旨の定款の定めがある株式会社
公開会社
A stock company whose articles of incorporation do not require the company's approval for transfers of at least some of its shares; it need not be listed on a stock exchange.
その発行する全部又は一部の株式の内容として譲渡による当該株式の取得について株式会社の承認を要する旨の定款の定めを設けていない株式会社
A company's changing its legal form, either from a stock company into a membership company (a general partnership, limited partnership or limited liability company) or the other way round.
次のイ又はロに掲げる会社がその組織を変更することにより当該イ又はロに定める会社となること
A person who is to become a director when the stock company is formed.
株式会社の設立に際して取締役となる者
A membership company that is being wound up, which is treated as still existing for the purposes of the liquidation until the liquidation is completed.
One or more stock companies or limited liability companies handing over all or part of the rights and obligations of their business to a new company formed by the split.
一又は二以上の株式会社又は合同会社がその事業に関して有する権利義務の全部又は一部を分割により設立する会社に承継させること
外国会社
A corporation or other body formed under a foreign country's law that is of the same kind as, or similar to, a company under this Act.
外国の法令に準拠して設立された法人その他の外国の団体であって、会社と同種のもの又は会社に類似するもの
監査役設置会社
A stock company that has a company auditor whose audit its articles of incorporation do not limit to accounting matters, or that this Act requires to have a company auditor.
監査役を置く株式会社（その監査役の監査の範囲を会計に関するものに限定する旨の定款の定めがあるものを除く。）又はこの法律の規定により監査役を置かなければならない株式会社
A stock company or limited liability company's handing over all or part of the rights and obligations of its business to another existing company, which takes them over.
株式会社又は合同会社がその事業に関して有する権利義務の全部又は一部を分割後他の会社に承継させること
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.
A stock company in which a company holds a majority of the votes, or any other corporation whose management a company controls, as set out by Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令).
会社がその総株主の議決権の過半数を有する株式会社その他の当該会社がその経営を支配している法人として法務省令で定めるもの
Shares, newly issued or held by the company itself, that a stock company allots to the persons who applied for them in response to its invitation to subscribe.
当該募集に応じてこれらの株式の引受けの申込みをした者に対して割り当てる株式
The shares a stock company issues when it is formed.
株式会社の設立に際して発行する株式
The stock company whose shares a parent company acquires in a partial share exchange.
株式交付親会社（株式交付をする株式会社をいう。以下同じ。）が株式交付に際して譲り受ける株式を発行する株式会社
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.
第五十条第一項又は第百二条第二項の規定により株式会社の株主となる者
株式交換
A stock company's having all of its issued shares acquired by another existing stock company or limited liability company, which becomes its sole owner.
株式会社がその発行済株式（株式会社が発行している株式をいう。以下同じ。）の全部を他の株式会社又は合同会社に取得させること
Share options that a stock company allots to the persons who applied for them in response to its invitation to subscribe.
当該募集に応じて当該新株予約権の引受けの申込みをした者に対して割り当てる新株予約権
A stock company's acquiring shares of another stock company to make it a subsidiary, handing its own shares to the sellers in exchange; unlike a share exchange, it need not acquire all of them.
株式会社が他の株式会社をその子会社（法務省令で定めるものに限る。第七百七十四条の三第二項において同じ。）とするために当該他の株式会社の株式を譲り受け、当該株式の譲渡人に対して当該株式の対価として当該株式会社の株式を交付すること
株式移転
One or more stock companies having all of their issued shares acquired by a newly formed stock company, which becomes their sole owner.
一又は二以上の株式会社がその発行済株式の全部を新たに設立する株式会社に取得させること
A shareholder holding a particular class of shares in a company with class shares.
種類株式発行会社におけるある種類の株式の株主
The new stock company formed in a share transfer, which acquires all the issued shares of the companies carrying it out.
A merger of two or more companies in which all of them cease to exist and a new company formed by the merger takes over all their rights and obligations.
二以上の会社がする合併であって、合併により消滅する会社の権利義務の全部を合併により設立する会社に承継させるもの
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.
The stock company all of whose issued shares are acquired by another company in a share exchange.
A director who represents a stock company, acting in its name toward everyone else.
株式会社を代表する取締役
A stock company formed in an incorporation-type company split.
A stock company that is merged away in an absorption-type merger, splits off business in an absorption-type company split, or becomes a wholly owned subsidiary in a share exchange, and must keep the merger agreement, split agreement or share exchange agreement at its head office.
発行済株式
効力発生日
The day on which the corporate action in question takes effect, such as a share consolidation, business transfer, entity conversion, merger, company split, share exchange or partial share exchange.
A merger in which one existing company survives and takes over all the rights and obligations of the other company, which ceases to exist.
会社が他の会社とする合併であって、合併により消滅する会社の権利義務の全部を合併後存続する会社に承継させるもの
A stock company that ceases to exist in an absorption-type merger.
A stock company that takes over rights and obligations of another company's business in an absorption-type company split.
A stock company that survives an absorption-type merger, takes over business in an absorption-type company split, or becomes the wholly owning parent company in a share exchange.
The way a company, including a foreign company, gives those public notices that no law requires to be published in the Official Gazette, such as in a daily newspaper or by electronic public notice.
会社（外国会社を含む。）が公告（この法律又は他の法律の規定により官報に掲載する方法によりしなければならないものとされているものを除く。）をする方法
自己株式
対象会社
The stock company whose shares a special controlling shareholder (one holding at least nine tenths of the votes) demands the other shareholders sell to it in a cash-out.
A stock company formed in a consolidation-type merger.
A stock company that is merged away in a consolidation-type merger, splits off business in an incorporation-type company split, or becomes a wholly owned subsidiary in a share transfer, and must keep the merger agreement, split plan or share transfer plan at its head office.
Shares whose terms require the company's approval for anyone to acquire them by transfer.
株式会社がその発行する全部又は一部の株式の内容として譲渡による当該株式の取得について当該株式会社の承認を要する旨の定めを設けている場合における当該株式
A person who is to become a company auditor when the stock company is formed.
株式会社の設立に際して監査役となる者
A person who, together with the stock companies it wholly owns and similar corporations set by Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令), holds nine tenths or more of the votes in a stock company (or any higher proportion its articles of incorporation set), and who may therefore demand that all other shareholders sell it their shares.
株式会社の総株主の議決権の十分の九（これを上回る割合を当該株式会社の定款で定めた場合にあっては、その割合）以上を当該株式会社以外の者及び当該者が発行済株式の全部を有する株式会社その他これに準ずるものとして法務省令で定める法人（以下この条及び次条第一項において「特別支配株主完全子法人」という。）が有している場合における当該者
A creditor who holds an agreement claim in the special liquidation of a stock company.
The company that hands over rights and obligations of its business to another company in an absorption-type company split.
A stock company that acquires all the issued shares of another stock company in a share exchange.
An absorption-type merger, an absorption-type company split or a share exchange.
責任追及等の訴え
A lawsuit to enforce the liability of a stock company's incorporators, officers, etc. or liquidators, or to recover certain payments owed to the company, which a shareholder may demand the company bring and may bring on its behalf if it does not.
A stock company that ceases to exist in a consolidation-type merger.
会計監査人設置会社
A stock company that has a financial auditor, an outside certified public accountant or audit firm that audits its accounts, or that this Act requires to have one.
会計監査人を置く株式会社又はこの法律の規定により会計監査人を置かなければならない株式会社
The money or other property a stock company hands out when it pays a dividend of surplus.
株式会社が剰余金の配当をする場合における配当する財産
A member of the audit committee of a company with nominating committee, etc., who may not at the same time be an executive officer or executive director of the company or its subsidiaries.
準備金
Capital reserves and retained earnings reserves taken together: amounts a stock company keeps on its books apart from its capital, including the one tenth of each dividend of surplus it must set aside when it pays one.
A stock company that survives an absorption-type merger.
A company that hands over rights and obligations of its business to a new company formed in an incorporation-type company split.
A body registered with the Minister of Justice that investigates whether a company's electronic public notice stayed available to the public throughout the notice period.
A stock company that has a board of company auditors, or that this Act requires to have one.
監査役会を置く株式会社又はこの法律の規定により監査役会を置かなければならない株式会社
単元株式数
The number of shares that a stock company's articles of incorporation make one unit, carrying one vote at a shareholders meeting.
株式会社がその発行する株式について、一定の数の株式をもって株主が株主総会又は種類株主総会において一個の議決権を行使することができる一単元の株式とする旨の定款の定めを設けている場合における当該一定の数
A meeting of the shareholders at incorporation who hold one class of the shares issued at incorporation, whose resolution may be needed as well as the organizational meeting's.
ある種類の設立時発行株式の設立時種類株主の総会
招集者
The person who calls a creditors meeting in special liquidation, or a bondholders meeting.
The date Act No. 90 of 2014, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
Shares issued at incorporation that are allotted to the persons who apply for them when the incorporators invite outside subscriptions.
同項の募集に応じて設立時発行株式の引受けの申込みをした者に対して割り当てる設立時発行株式
The directors, accounting advisors, company auditors, executive officers and financial auditor of a stock company, who are liable to it for damages if they neglect their duties.
A liquidator who represents a stock company that is being wound up (a liquidating stock company).
清算株式会社を代表する清算人
An investigation by a registered investigation body into whether a company's electronic public notice stayed available to the public throughout the notice period.
A certificate representing bonds with share options, as provided for in Article 249, item (ii).
証券発行新株予約権付社債（新株予約権付社債であって、当該新株予約権付社債についての社債につき社債券を発行する旨の定めがあるものをいう。以下この章において同じ。）に係る社債券
The pay, bonuses and any other financial benefit that directors and other officers receive from a stock company in return for doing their job.
The financial statements a stock company must prepare for each business year: the balance sheet, the profit and loss statement and the other statements a Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) sets as needed to show its assets and its profit and loss.
貸借対照表、損益計算書その他株式会社の財産及び損益の状況を示すために必要かつ適当なものとして法務省令で定めるもの
A liquidating stock company that has a board of liquidators, or that this Act requires to have one.
清算人会を置く清算株式会社又はこの法律の規定により清算人会を置かなければならない清算株式会社
A stock company that hands over rights and obligations of its business to another company in an absorption-type company split.
会計参与設置会社
A stock company that has an accounting advisor, an officer who prepares the financial statements jointly with the directors.
会計参与を置く株式会社
Giving public notice by making it available online to anyone, in the way set by Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令).
公告方法のうち、電磁的方法（電子情報処理組織を使用する方法その他の情報通信の技術を利用する方法であって法務省令で定めるものをいう。以下同じ。）により不特定多数の者が公告すべき内容である情報の提供を受けることができる状態に置く措置であって法務省令で定めるものをとる方法
A shareholder or other member of a company's parent company, who may, with the court's permission, inspect records of the subsidiary where needed to exercise their rights.
親会社の株主その他の社員
社債の種類
In Part 5 (entity conversions, mergers, company splits, share exchanges, share transfers and partial share exchanges), the class of a bond as Article 107, paragraph (2), item (ii), (b) uses the word: the features that identify a kind of bond listed in Article 681, item (i), namely the matters in Article 676, items (iii) to (viii)-2, such as its interest rate and how and when it is repaid, and others set by Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令).
第百七条第二項第二号ロに規定する社債の種類
A membership company (a general partnership, limited partnership or limited liability company) formed in an incorporation-type company split.
The total number of shares a stock company's articles of incorporation authorize it to issue.
A stock company all of whose issued shares are acquired by a new stock company formed in a share transfer.
新株予約権等
The share options and bonds with share options of the subsidiary in a partial share exchange (where one company pays with its own shares to make another its subsidiary), which the parent company may acquire along with the subsidiary's shares.
The three committees of a company with nominating committee, etc.: its nominating committee, audit committee and remuneration committee.
全部取得条項付種類株式
A class of shares whose terms let the company acquire every share of that class by a resolution at a shareholders meeting, as provided for in Article 108, paragraph (1), item (vii).
第百八条第一項第七号に掲げる事項についての定めがある種類の株式
分配可能額
The most a stock company may pay out to its shareholders in dividends or by buying back its own shares, worked out under Article 461, paragraph (2) from its surplus less the amounts listed there.
第一号及び第二号に掲げる額の合計額から第三号から第六号までに掲げる額の合計額を減じて得た額
招集者
The person who calls a creditors meeting in special liquidation, or a bondholders meeting.
The membership company that a stock company becomes through entity conversion.
This Act as amended by Act No. 90 of 2014.
社外取締役
A director of a stock company who meets all the independence requirements in Article 2, item (xv), such as not running, and not having run in the previous ten years, the business of the company or its subsidiaries.
株式会社の取締役であって、次に掲げる要件のいずれにも該当するもの