A stock company may, by prescribing a certain date (hereinafter in this Chapter referred to as a "record date"), prescribe the shareholders that have been entered or recorded in the shareholder register as of the record date (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "shareholders as of the record date") as the persons that may exercise their rights.
株式会社は、一定の日（以下この章において「基準日」という。）を定めて、基準日において株主名簿に記載され、又は記録されている株主（以下この条において「基準日株主」という。）をその権利を行使することができる者と定めることができる。
If a record date is to be established, the stock company must prescribe the content of the rights which the shareholders on the record date may exercise (limited to those which are exercised within three months from the record date).
If a stock company has prescribed a record date, it must give public notice of relevant record date and the matters prescribed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph no later than two weeks prior to relevant record date; provided, however, that this does not apply if the articles of incorporation provide for relevant record date and relevant matters.
If the rights that the shareholders on the record date may exercise are voting right at a shareholders meeting or general meeting of class shareholders, the stock company may prescribe some or all persons who acquire shares on or after relevant record date as persons who may exercise relevant right; provided, however, that these provisions may not prejudice the rights of the shareholders on the record date of relevant shares.
The provisions of paragraph (1) to paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the registered pledgees of shares provided for in Article 149, paragraph (1).
第一項から第三項までの規定は、第百四十九条第一項に規定する登録株式質権者について準用する。
(Record Date)
A stock company may, by prescribing a certain date (hereinafter in this Chapter referred to as a "record date"), prescribe the shareholders that have been entered or recorded in the shareholder…
株式会社は、一定の日（以下この章において「基準日」という。）を定めて、基準日において株主名簿に記載され、又は記録されている株主（以下この条において「基準日株主」という。）をその権利を行使することができる者と定めることができる。
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A stock company may, by prescribing a certain date (hereinafter in this Chapter referred to as a "record date"), prescribe the shareholders that have been entered or recorded in the shareholder…
株式会社は、一定の日（以下この章において「基準日」という。）を定めて、基準日において株主名簿に記載され、又は記録されている株主（以下この条において「基準日株主」という。）をその権利を行使することができる者と定めることができる。
Open this provision(Record Date)
If a record date is to be established, the stock company must prescribe the content of the rights which the shareholders on the record date may exercise…
基準日を定める場合には、株式会社は、基準日株主が行使することができる権利（基準日から三箇月以内に行使するものに限る。）の内容を定めなければならない。
Open this provision(Record Date)
If a stock company has prescribed a record date, it must give public notice of relevant record date and the matters prescribed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph no later than two…
株式会社は、基準日を定めたときは、当該基準日の二週間前までに、当該基準日及び前項の規定により定めた事項を公告しなければならない。ただし、定款に当該基準日及び当該事項について定めがあるときは、この限りでない。
Open this provision(Delivery of Documents Showing the Information Entered in the Shareholder Register)
A pledgee whose information as set forth in the items of the preceding Article has been entered or recorded in the shareholder register (hereinafter referred to as a "registered pledgee of shares")…
前条各号に掲げる事項が株主名簿に記載され、又は記録された質権者（以下「登録株式質権者」という。）は、株式会社に対し、当該登録株式質権者についての株主名簿に記載され、若しくは記録された同条各号に掲げる事項を記載した書面の交付又は当該事項を記録した電磁的記録の提供を請求することができる。
Open this provisiongeneral meeting of class shareholders
「種類株主総会」
A meeting of the shareholders who hold a particular class of shares in a company with class shares.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xiv)· applies throughout the law
record date
「基準日」
A date a stock company sets so that the shareholders entered in its shareholder register on that date are the ones who may exercise a shareholder right, such as voting at a meeting or receiving a dividend.
Short name set inArticle 124, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
shareholders as of the record date
「基準日株主」
The shareholders entered in the shareholder register on the record date, who are the ones entitled to exercise the rights the record date was set for.
Short name set inArticle 124, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article
registered pledgee of shares
「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.
Short name set inArticle 149, paragraph (1)
articles of incorporation
定款
A company's own basic rules, written by its founders when it is formed: at least its purpose, its trade name, where its head office is, the value of the property contributed at incorporation and who the founders are (Companies Act, Article 27). A stock company's must be certified by a notary before it takes effect (Article 30, paragraph (1)), and can later be changed by a resolution of the shareholders meeting (Article 466). Many rules in the Act apply "unless the articles of incorporation provide otherwise", so a company's articles decide a great deal of how the Act applies to it.
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 26, 27, 30, 466, 575 as a reference.
shareholders meeting
株主総会
The meeting of a stock company's shareholders, and the body through which they decide the company's basic matters. It elects the directors and company auditors (Companies Act, Article 329, paragraph (1)) and changes the articles of incorporation (Article 466). In a company without a board of directors it may decide any matter about the company; in one with a board, only what the Act or the articles of incorporation leave to it (Article 295). An annual shareholders meeting must be called after the end of every business year, and another may be called whenever needed (Article 296). A resolution normally passes by a majority of the votes present, with holders of a majority of the votes entitled to vote attending (Article 309, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 295, 296, 309, 329, 466 as a reference.