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取締役会設置会社（とりしまりやくかいせっちがいしゃ）

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

取締役等（とりしまりやくとう）

In Chapters IV and IV-2, the directors, company auditors (監査役), executive officers (執行役) or accounting advisors (会計参与) of a corporation, or its directors (理事) or auditors (監事) where it has those instead.

取締役、監査役若しくは執行役若しくは会計参与又は理事若しくは監事

取締役の報酬等（とりしまりやくのほうしゅうとう）

In Article 202-2, paragraph (1), item (i) and Article 236, paragraph (3), item (i), the remuneration, bonuses and other financial benefits a director receives from the stock company in return for performing their duties, as Article 361, paragraph (1) defines them.

第三百六十一条第一項に規定する報酬等

取締役会議案提案取締役（とりしまりやくかいぎあんていあんとりしまりやく）

A director (or, in a company with nominating committee, etc., a director or executive officer) named by Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) as having put to the board of directors a share buyback that paid out more than the distributable amount, and who is therefore liable to the company for that payout.

当該取締役会に議案を提案した取締役（指名委員会等設置会社にあっては、取締役又は執行役）として法務省令で定めるもの

取締役等（とりしまりやくとう）

A director, executive officer or employee of the stock company whose resolution granted share options (付与決議), or of a corporation in which that company directly or indirectly holds more than half of the voting shares or capital or that is linked to it in another way a Cabinet Order (政令) sets — other than large shareholders (大口株主) and individuals specially related to them.

取締役等の特定株式（とりしまりやくとうのとくていかぶしき）

Specified shares (特定株式) — shares acquired under the share option rule of Article 29-2, paragraph (1) and kept under its custody arrangements — that an individual acquired by inheritance or bequest from the person who used the rule, other than shares acquired by exercising specified share options given to specified workers (特定従事者) and others a Cabinet Order (政令) sets.

取締役等（とりしまりやくとう）

The directors and executive officers involved in an issue of shares (Article 213) or of share options (Article 286) who must pay the company the shortfall when property contributed in kind turns out to be worth far less than the value set on it.

設立時取締役（せつりつじとりしまりやく）

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

代表取締役（だいひょうとりしまりやく）

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

社外取締役（しゃがいとりしまりやく）

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

業務執行取締役（ぎょうむしっこうとりしまりやく）

A director who runs a stock company's business: the representative director, any director chosen by the board to execute its business under Article 363, paragraph (1), and any other director who has in fact executed its business.

株式会社の第三百六十三条第一項各号に掲げる取締役及び当該株式会社の業務を執行したその他の取締役

総会議案提案取締役（そうかいぎあんていあんとりしまりやく）

A director named by Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) as having put to a shareholders meeting a share buyback that paid out more than the distributable amount, and who is therefore liable to the company for that payout.

当該株主総会に議案を提案した取締役として法務省令で定めるもの

各特別取締役（かくとくべつとりしまりやく）

In Articles 366 and 368 as Article 373, paragraph (2) has them read, each of the special directors (特別取締役): the three or more directors a board of directors selects in advance under Article 373, paragraph (1) to adopt its resolutions on disposing of and acquiring important property and on large borrowings.

第三百七十三条第一項に規定する特別取締役

特別取締役（とくべつとりしまりやく）

Three or more directors chosen in advance by the board of a company meeting the conditions in Article 373, who may decide on disposing of or acquiring important assets and on large borrowings without the full board.

業務執行取締役等（ぎょうむしっこうとりしまりやくとう）

A company's executive directors, executive officers, managers and other employees taken together: the people who run or work in its business, as against the outside directors who oversee it.

非業務執行取締役等（ひぎょうむしっこうとりしまりやくとう）

In Article 427 and Article 911, paragraph (3), item (xxv), a director who is not an executive director, etc. (業務執行取締役等), an accounting advisor (会計参与), a company auditor (監査役) or a financial auditor (会計監査人), with whom a company whose articles of incorporation allow it may agree in advance to cap their liability for neglect of duty where they acted in good faith and without gross negligence.

設立時代表取締役（せつりつじだいひょうとりしまりやく）

The director at incorporation chosen to become the representative director when the stock company is formed.

独立社外取締役（どくりつしゃがいとりしまりやく）

In Article 34, paragraph (1), item (iii)(a)(2), an outside director (社外取締役) of the domestic corporation, as defined in Article 2, item (xv) of the Companies Act, whose independence in performing duties is assured, as a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.

役員（やくいん）

A director, accounting advisor, company auditor or executive officer, or a person equivalent to one, in this Act other than Articles 163 to 167.

取締役、会計参与、監査役若しくは執行役又はこれらに準ずる者

役員（やくいん）

From Article 8, paragraph (1) on, a member who executes a corporation's business (業務を執行する社員), a director, an executive officer (執行役), a representative (代表者), an administrator (管理人) or a person equivalent to one of them, including anyone, whatever the title — counsellor (相談役), adviser (顧問) or any other — found to have as much control over the corporation as such a person, or more.

業務を執行する社員、取締役、執行役、代表者、管理人又はこれらに準ずる者をいい、相談役、顧問その他いかなる名称を有する者であるか…