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convenor

招集権者(しょうしゅうけんしゃ)

The director, or liquidator, designated in the articles of incorporation or by the board to call meetings of the board of directors, or of the board of liquidators.

annual securities report, etc.

有価証券報告書等(ゆうかしょうけんほうこくしょとう)

In Article 24, an annual securities report under paragraph (1) of that Article together with the documents that must be attached to it under paragraph (6).

Real Estate Brokerage Association

宅地建物取引業協会(たくちたてものとりひきぎょうきょうかい)

A general incorporated association (一般社団法人) that uses the words 宅地建物取引業協会 (real estate brokerage association) in its name and whose articles say that it works within one prefecture and has real estate brokers (宅地建物取引業者) as its members, for the purpose of guiding and liaising with its members.

profit-making activities

収益業務(しゅうえきぎょうむ)

Business that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare specifies, which a social medical corporation (社会医療法人) may carry on, as its articles of incorporation (定款) or act of endowment (寄附行為) provide and so long as its medical work does not suffer, to put the income toward running the hospitals and other facilities it opens.

date of the gift or similar transfer

贈与等の日(ぞうよとうのひ)

In Article 40(8), the day on which the original corporation (当初法人) — one whose public interest certification has been revoked — gives property equal to its remaining public-interest-purpose acquired property to another public interest corporation, etc. (公益法人等), or makes it the trust property of a public interest trust with a similar public purpose.

Federation of Real Estate Brokerage Associations

宅地建物取引業協会連合会(たくちたてものとりひきぎょうきょうかいれんごうかい)

A general incorporated association (一般社団法人) that uses the words 宅地建物取引業協会連合会 (federation of real estate brokerage associations) in its name and whose articles say that it works nationwide and has real estate brokerage associations (宅地建物取引業協会) as its members, for the purpose of guiding and liaising with its members.

request for delivery of documents

書面交付請求(しょめんこうふせいきゅう)

A shareholder's request to be sent on paper the shareholders meeting materials that the company otherwise makes available online through electronic provision measures.

resolution, etc.

決議等(けつぎとう)

In Article 24-6, paragraph (1), a resolution of a shareholders meeting or board of directors under Article 156, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act (including as applied under Article 165, paragraph (3) of that Act) on acquiring the company's own shares, or a decision of a body a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as equivalent.

law or regulation, etc.

法令等(ほうれいとう)

In Article 74, laws and regulations, dispositions of administrative agencies under them, and an authorized financial instruments firms association's articles of incorporation and other rules.

specified local incorporated administrative agency

特定地方独立行政法人(とくていちほうどくりつぎょうせいほうじん)

A local incorporated administrative agency (地方独立行政法人) that the local government (地方公共団体) setting it up names in its articles of incorporation as needing its officers and employees to hold the status of local public employees (地方公務員), because a halt in its work would directly and seriously harm residents' lives or the stability of the local community or economy, or because its neutrality and fairness must be especially secured, as Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Local Independent Administrative Agency Act defines it, leaving out one that runs a university or college of technology under Article 21, item (ii) of that Act.

specified regional medical coordination promotion corporation

特定地域医療連携推進法人(とくていちいきいりょうれんけいすいしんほうじん)

A regional medical coordination promotion corporation (地域医療連携推進法人) whose articles of incorporation (定款) say it will neither give the fund-raising support in Article 70, paragraph (2), item (iii) nor make investments, and which does not meet standards a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets by the scale of its business and other circumstances; under Article 70-14 it need not have its accounts audited by a certified public accountant or audit firm, and need not file or disclose some documents.

action seeking dismissal of an officer of a stock company

株式会社の役員の解任の訴え(かぶしきがいしゃのやくいんのかいにんのうったえ)

A lawsuit under Article 854, paragraph (1), brought within 30 days of a shareholders' meeting by shareholders who meet the holding requirements of that paragraph, seeking the dismissal of an officer (役員) of a stock company (株式会社) who has acted dishonestly or seriously violated laws or the articles of incorporation in performing their duties, where the meeting voted down a proposal to dismiss the officer or its resolution to dismiss the officer did not take effect under Article 323.

verifying person

証明者(しょうめいしゃ)

A professional such as a lawyer, certified public accountant or tax accountant who certified that the value set on property contributed in kind was fair, and who must help make up the shortfall if it turns out to be worth far less, unless they show they took due care.

branch head

支部長(しぶちょう)

The head of a branch (支部) of the Japan Health Insurance Association (全国健康保険協会), who appoints the members of the branch's council (評議会).

interim dividend

中間配当(ちゅうかんはいとう)

A dividend of surplus paid in money that a company with a board of directors may, if its articles of incorporation allow, pay once partway through a business year on a resolution of the board instead of the shareholders meeting.

reference documents for shareholders meeting, etc.

株主総会参考書類等(かぶぬしそうかいさんこうしょるいとう)

The materials for a shareholders meeting, such as reference documents, voting forms, financial statements and business reports, that a company whose articles of incorporation so provide may make available online instead of sending them out.

council for regional medical coordination promotion

地域医療連携推進評議会(ちいきいりょうれんけいすいしんひょうぎかい)

The council that a regional medical coordination promotion corporation's articles of incorporation (定款) must provide for, made up of people receiving medical or long-term care, organizations of medical experts, people of learning and experience and others concerned, which gives the corporation its opinions and evaluates its work against the targets in its medical coordination promotion policy (医療連携推進方針).

State, etc.

国等(くにとう)

In Article 70-3, paragraph (1), items (xix) and (xx), the State (国), local governments (地方公共団体), and medical corporations and other providers of medical care that a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, to one of which a regional medical coordination promotion corporation's articles of incorporation (定款) must provide that it will give, within one month after its approval for medical coordination promotion (医療連携推進認定) is revoked, property equal to any remaining property it acquired for that purpose.

purchase for a general investor

一般投資家等買付け(いっぱんとうしかとうかいつけ)

In Article 67, paragraph (3) and Article 67-12, item (v), a purchase of securities that an association member (協会員) of an authorized association (認可協会) makes on the order of someone other than a professional investor, etc. (特定投資家等) (or the issuer of the securities and others a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) specifies), which the association may prohibit, under its articles of incorporation, for each over-the-counter securities market (店頭売買有価証券市場) it opens.

new medical corporation

新医療法人(しんいりょうほうじん)

In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 84 of 2006, a medical corporation that is an association (社団) whose articles of incorporation (定款) name, as those to receive its remaining assets, persons chosen from those Article 44, paragraph (5) allows: the State, local governments, or medical corporations or other providers of medical care that a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets.

社団たる医療法人であって、その定款に残余財産の帰属すべき者として同法第四十四条第五項に規定する者を規定しているもの