A stock company may cancel its treasury shares. In these cases, the stock company must determine the number of the treasury shares it intends to cancel (or, for a company with class shares, the classes of the shares and the number of treasury shares for each class).
For a company with board of directors, the determination under the provisions of the second sentence of the preceding paragraph must be made by a resolution at a board of directors meeting.
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A stock company may cancel its treasury shares. In these cases, the stock company must determine the number of the treasury shares it intends to cancel…
株式会社は、自己株式を消却することができる。この場合においては、消却する自己株式の数（種類株式発行会社にあっては、自己株式の種類及び種類ごとの数）を定めなければならない。
Open this provisioncompany with board of directors
「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.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (vii)· applies throughout the law
company with class shares
「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.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xiii)· applies throughout the law
treasury sharesmachine translation
「自己株式」
Shares of a stock company that the company itself holds.
Defined inArticle 113, paragraph (4)
board of directors
取締役会
The body made up of all of a stock company's directors (Companies Act, Article 362, paragraph (1)). It decides how the company's business is carried out, supervises the directors, and appoints and removes the representative directors (代表取締役) (Article 362, paragraphs (2) and (3)) — except in a company with a nominating committee and the other committees (指名委員会等設置会社), where it appoints representative executive officers (代表執行役) instead (Articles 416 and 420). Some decisions, such as disposing of important assets or borrowing a large amount, it normally may not hand to the directors (Article 362, paragraph (4)). A company with an audit and supervisory committee (監査等委員会設置会社) can hand more of them to directors (Article 399-13, paragraphs (5) and (6)), and a company with the committees hands them to executive officers (執行役) rather than directors (Article 416, paragraphs (3) and (4)). A company chooses in its articles of incorporation whether to have one (Article 326, paragraph (2)), but a public company (公開会社), among others, must (Article 327, paragraph (1)): a public company is one whose articles of incorporation let at least some of its shares change hands without the company's approval (Article 2, item (v)). A company with a board must have at least three directors (Article 331, paragraph (5)).
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 2, 326, 327, 331, 362, 399-13, 416, 420 as a reference.