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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
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
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
種類
The features that identify a kind of bond, such as its interest rate and how it is repaid, as listed in Article 676, items (iii) to (viii)-2 and by Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令).
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.
A company that has a stock company as its subsidiary company, or any other corporation that controls a stock company's management, as set out by Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令).
株式会社を子会社とする会社その他の当該株式会社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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
新株予約権付社債
The three committees of a company with nominating committee, etc.: its nominating committee, audit committee and remuneration committee.
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
株式会社等
The stock company, or wholly owned subsidiary company resulting from the share exchange, etc., on whose behalf an action to enforce the liability of its officers is brought.
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
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
A stock company that holds all the issued shares of a particular stock company, or one that Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) treats as equivalent.
特定の株式会社の発行済株式の全部を有する株式会社その他これと同等のものとして法務省令で定める株式会社
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The registration, with the Minister of Justice, of a body that investigates whether companies' electronic public notices were properly published.
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
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
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.
第百九十九条第一項に規定する募集株式
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
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
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 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
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.
第四百三十五条第二項に規定する計算書類
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
The financial statements a membership company must prepare for each business year: the balance sheet and the other statements a Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) sets as needed to show its assets.
貸借対照表その他持分会社の財産の状況を示すために必要かつ適切なものとして法務省令で定めるもの
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.
第四百三十五条第二項に規定する計算書類
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.
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.
A stock company formed in a consolidation-type merger, an incorporation-type company split or a share transfer, to whose formation most of the ordinary incorporation rules do not apply.
役員
The directors, accounting advisors and company auditors of a stock company, as listed in Article 329, paragraph (1).
取締役、会計参与及び監査役
役員
The directors, accounting advisors and company auditors of a stock company, as listed in Article 329, paragraph (1).
第三百二十九条第一項に規定する役員
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.
A dissenting shareholder's demand that the company buy their shares at a fair price when it carries out a major action such as a share consolidation, a business transfer, a merger, a company split or a share exchange.
A dissenting shareholder's demand that the company buy their shares at a fair price when it carries out a major action such as a share consolidation, a business transfer, a merger, a company split or a share exchange.
A dissenting shareholder's demand that the company buy their shares at a fair price when it carries out a major action such as a share consolidation, a business transfer, a merger, a company split or a share exchange.
A dissenting shareholder's demand that the company buy their shares at a fair price when it carries out a major action such as a share consolidation, a business transfer, a merger, a company split or a share exchange.
A dissenting shareholder's demand that the company buy their shares at a fair price when it carries out a major action such as a share consolidation, a business transfer, a merger, a company split or a share exchange.
A dissenting shareholder's demand that the company buy their shares at a fair price when it carries out a major action such as a share consolidation, a business transfer, a merger, a company split or a share exchange.
A dissenting shareholder's demand that the company buy their shares at a fair price when it carries out a major action such as a share consolidation, a business transfer, a merger, a company split or a share exchange.
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
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
Share options that a stock company allots to the persons who applied for them in response to its invitation to subscribe.
第二百三十八条第一項に規定する募集新株予約権
Share options that a stock company allots to the persons who applied for them in response to its invitation to subscribe.
同項に規定する募集新株予約権
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
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 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
A share option holder's demand that the company buy back their share options at a fair price, allowed when the company makes certain changes such as amending its articles of incorporation, converting into another kind of company, merging or splitting.
A stock company's directors, accounting advisors, company auditors and financial auditors, in the rule that a shareholder's proposal to elect them, or to remove them, counts as one proposal however many of them it covers, against the limit of ten proposals a shareholder may put to a shareholders meeting.
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 share option holder's demand that the company buy back their share options at a fair price, allowed when the company makes certain changes such as amending its articles of incorporation, converting into another kind of company, merging or splitting.
A share option holder's demand that the company buy back their share options at a fair price, allowed when the company makes certain changes such as amending its articles of incorporation, converting into another kind of company, merging or splitting.
A share option holder's demand that the company buy back their share options at a fair price, allowed when the company makes certain changes such as amending its articles of incorporation, converting into another kind of company, merging or splitting.
The directors, accounting advisors, company auditors, executive officers and financial auditors to whom Article 423, paragraph (1) applied as it stood before Act No. 70 of 2019 amended it, whose liability a stock company had insured before that Act came into effect, so that Article 430-3 does not apply to that insurance.
旧法第四百二十三条第一項に規定する役員等
A parent company, or a person other than a company, such as an individual, who controls a stock company's management as set out by Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令).
次のいずれかに該当する者
株式等
A stock company's shares, bonds and share options taken together.
株式、社債及び新株予約権
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.
招集者
The person who calls a creditors meeting in special liquidation, or a bondholders meeting.
招集者
The person who calls a creditors meeting in special liquidation, or a bondholders meeting.
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
請求者
A shareholder or creditor asking to inspect or copy a stock company's shareholder register, whose request the company may refuse if it is made for a purpose other than looking into how to secure or exercise their rights.
Property other than money that subscribers for shares for subscription contribute in place of money, as the subscription requirements provide, whose value the company must generally have checked by an inspector (検査役) the court appoints.
請求者
A shareholder or creditor asking to inspect or copy a stock company's share option register, whose request the company may refuse if it is made for a purpose other than looking into how to secure or exercise their rights.
Property other than money contributed on exercising a share option whose terms allow it, whose value the company must generally have checked by an inspector (検査役) the court appoints.
請求者
A shareholder asking to inspect or copy the documents proving the authority of the proxies who voted at a shareholders meeting, or their electronic record, whose request the company may refuse if it is made for a purpose other than looking into how to secure or exercise their rights.
請求者
A shareholder asking to inspect or copy the voting forms submitted for a shareholders meeting, whose request the company may refuse if it is made for a purpose other than looking into how to secure or exercise their rights.
請求者
A shareholder asking to inspect or copy the record of the votes cast electronically at a shareholders meeting, whose request the company may refuse if it is made for a purpose other than looking into how to secure or exercise their rights.
請求者
A shareholder holding at least 3% of the votes or of the issued shares (or any lower proportion the articles of incorporation set) who asks to inspect or copy the company's accounting books and related materials, whose request the company may refuse if it is made for a purpose other than looking into how to secure or exercise their rights.
The new stock company formed in a share transfer, which acquires all the issued shares of the companies carrying it out.
協定債権
The claims of a liquidating stock company's creditors that are dealt with in special liquidation, which is all of them except claims with general priority and claims arising from the special liquidation proceedings themselves.
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.