If a stock company to be incorporated is a company with board of directors, there must be three or more directors at incorporation.
If a stock company to be incorporated is a company with board of company auditors, there must be three or more company auditors at incorporation.
設立しようとする株式会社が監査等委員会設置会社である場合には、設立時監査等委員である設立時取締役は、三人以上でなければならない。
If the stock company to be incorporated is a company with audit and supervisory committee, directors at incorporation who are audit and supervisory committee members at incorporation must be three persons or more.
第三百三十一条第一項（第三百三十五条第一項において準用する場合を含む。）、第三百三十三条第一項若しくは第三項又は第三百三十七条第一項若しくは第三項の規定により成立後の株式会社の取締役（監査等委員会設置会社にあっては、監査等委員である取締役又はそれ以外の取締役）、会計参与、監査役又は会計監査人となることができない者は、それぞれ設立時取締役（成立後の株式会社が監査等委員会設置会社である場合にあっては、設立時監査等委員である設立時取締役又はそれ以外の設立時取締役）、設立時会計参与、設立時監査役又は設立時会計監査人（以下この節において「設立時役員等」という。）となることができない。
A person who may not be a director (in cases of a company with audit and supervisory committee, a director who is an audit and supervisory committee member or other director), accounting advisor, company auditor or financial auditor of a stock company after formation pursuant to the provisions of Article 331, paragraph (1) (including the case where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 335, paragraph (1)), Article 333, paragraph (1) or (3), or Article 337, paragraph (1) or (3) may not become a director at incorporation (if a stock company after incorporation is a company with audit and supervisory committee, a director at incorporation who is an audit and supervisory committee member at incorporation or other director at incorporation), an accounting advisor at incorporation, a company auditor at incorporation, or a financial auditor at incorporation (hereinafter in this Section referred to as "officers, etc. at incorporation"), respectively.
The provisions of Article 331-2 apply mutatis mutandis to directors at incorporation and company auditors at incorporation.