If a share certificate-issuing company carries out an act set forth in the following items, it must, more than one month prior to the day when relevant act takes effect (in cases of performing the act set forth in item (iv)-2, the acquisition day prescribed in Article 179-2, paragraph (1), item (v); hereinafter the day is referred to as the "share certificate submission day"), give public notice to the effect that share certificates representing the shares provided for in each of these items be submitted to relevant share certificate-issuing company before the share certificate submission day, and a separate notice to that effect to each shareholder and each registered pledgee of shares thereof; provided, however, that this does not apply if the share certificate-issuing company does not issue share certificates for any of its shares:
株券発行会社は、次の各号に掲げる行為をする場合には、当該行為の効力が生ずる日（第四号の二に掲げる行為をする場合にあっては、第百七十九条の二第一項第五号に規定する取得日。以下この条において「株券提出日」という。）までに当該株券発行会社に対し当該各号に定める株式に係る株券を提出しなければならない旨を株券提出日の一箇月前までに、公告し、かつ、当該株式の株主及びその登録株式質権者には、各別にこれを通知しなければならない。ただし、当該株式の全部について株券を発行していない場合は、この限りでない。
amendments to the articles of incorporation to create provisions of the articles of incorporation with respect to the matters set forth in Article 107, paragraph (1), item (i):all shares (or, for a company with class shares, the class shares that have provisions with respect to relevant matters);
第百七条第一項第一号に掲げる事項についての定款の定めを設ける定款の変更 全部の株式（種類株式発行会社にあっては、当該事項についての定めを設ける種類の株式）
consolidation of shares:all shares (or, for a company with class shares, the class shares under Article 180, paragraph (2), item (iii));
株式の併合 全部の株式（種類株式発行会社にあっては、第百八十条第二項第三号の種類の株式）
acquisitions of shares subject to class-wide call provided for in Article 171, paragraph (1):relevant shares subject to class-wide call;
第百七十一条第一項に規定する全部取得条項付種類株式の取得 当該全部取得条項付種類株式
acquisitions of shares subject to call:relevant shares subject to call;
取得条項付株式の取得 当該取得条項付株式
approval set forth in Article 179-3, paragraph (1):shares subject to the cash-out;
第百七十九条の三第一項の承認 売渡株式
entity conversion:all shares;
組織変更 全部の株式
merger (but only if the stock company disappears in the merger):all shares;
合併（合併により当該株式会社が消滅する場合に限る。） 全部の株式
share exchanges:all shares;
株式交換 全部の株式
share transfers:all shares.
株式移転 全部の株式
If a share certificate-issuing company performs the acts set forth in the following items, if a person fails to submit the share certificates to the share certificate-issuing company by the share certificate submission day the person specified in each of those items may refuse to deliver monies, etc. to the shareholders of the shares that are subject of the share certificates by relevant act (in cases of performing acts set forth in item (ii), acquisition of shares subject to cash-out related to demand for cash-out) until the share certificates are submitted:
acts set forth in the items (i) through (iv) of the preceding paragraph:the share certificate-issuing company;
前項第一号から第四号までに掲げる行為 当該株券発行会社
approval set forth in Article 179-3, paragraph (1):special controlling shareholders;
merger (but only if the stock company disappears in the merger):the company surviving the absorption-type merger as prescribed in Article 749, paragraph (1) or the company incorporated in the consolidation-type merger as prescribed in Article 753, paragraph (1);
合併（合併により当該株式会社が消滅する場合に限る。） 第七百四十九条第一項に規定する吸収合併存続会社又は第七百五十三条第一項に規定する新設合併設立会社
share exchange:the wholly owning parent company resulting from the share exchange as prescribed in Article 767; and
Share certificates representing the shares provided for in each item of paragraph (1) become invalid on the share certificate submission day.
The cost of public notice and notice pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), item (iv)-2 is paid by the special controlling shareholder.
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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
shares subject to call
「取得条項付株式」
Shares whose terms let the company acquire them from the shareholder when a specified event occurs.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xix)· applies throughout the law
entity conversion
「組織変更」
A company's changing its legal form, either from a stock company into a membership company (a general partnership, limited partnership or limited liability company) or the other way round.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxvi)· applies throughout the law
share exchange
「株式交換」
A stock company's having all of its issued shares acquired by another existing stock company or limited liability company, which becomes its sole owner.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxi)· applies throughout the law
share transfer
「株式移転」
One or more stock companies having all of their issued shares acquired by a newly formed stock company, which becomes their sole owner.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxii)· applies throughout the law
share certificate-issuing company
「株券発行会社」
A stock company whose articles of incorporation provide that it issues share certificates for its shares (for a company with class shares, for shares of every class).
Defined inArticle 117, paragraph (7)
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)
monies, etc.machine translation
「金銭等」
Money and any other property.
Defined inArticle 151, paragraph (1)
shares subject to class-wide callmachine translation
「全部取得条項付種類株式」
A class of shares whose terms let the company acquire every share of that class by a resolution at a shareholders meeting, as provided for in Article 108, paragraph (1), item (vii).
Defined inArticle 171, paragraph (1)· applies only in this subsection
special controlling shareholdermachine translation
「特別支配株主」
A person who, together with the stock companies it wholly owns and similar corporations set by Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令), holds nine tenths or more of the votes in a stock company (or any higher proportion its articles of incorporation set), and who may therefore demand that all other shareholders sell it their shares.
Defined inArticle 179, paragraph (1)
demand for cash-out
「株式売渡請求」
A special controlling shareholder's (特別支配株主) demand under Article 179, paragraph (1) that all the other shareholders sell it all their shares in the company — the shareholder being one that, with its wholly owned companies, holds at least nine-tenths of all shareholders' votes.
Short name set inArticle 179, paragraph (2)· applies only in this chapter and in Article 846-2, paragraph (2), item (i)
shares subject to the cash-out
「売渡株式」
The shares that a special controlling shareholder (one holding at least nine tenths of the votes) demands the other shareholders sell to it in a cash-out.
Short name set inArticle 179-2, paragraph (1), item (ii)· applies only in this chapter
acquisition day
「取得日」
The day, stated in a special controlling shareholder's demand for cash-out, on which that shareholder acquires the shares (and any share options) that the other holders must sell to it.
Short name set inArticle 179-2, paragraph (1), item (v)· applies only in this section
share certificate submission day
「株券提出日」
The day by which shareholders must hand their share certificates in to a company that issues them, when an action such as a share consolidation, a cash-out, an entity conversion or a merger affects those shares.
Short name set inArticle 219, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article
membership company after entity conversion
「組織変更後持分会社」
The membership company that a stock company becomes through entity conversion.
Short name set inArticle 744, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies only in this part
company surviving the absorption-type merger
「吸収合併存続会社」
The company that survives an absorption-type merger and takes over the rights and obligations of the company that ceases to exist.
Short name set inArticle 749, paragraph (1)· applies only in this part
company incorporated in the consolidation-type merger
「新設合併設立会社」
The new company formed in a consolidation-type merger, which takes over all the rights and obligations of the companies that merged into it.
Short name set inArticle 753, paragraph (1)· applies only in this part
wholly owning parent company resulting from the share exchangemachine translation
「株式交換完全親会社」
The stock company or limited liability company that acquires all the issued shares of another stock company in a share exchange.
Short name set inArticle 767, paragraph (1)· applies only in this part
wholly owning parent company incorporated in a share transfermachine translation
「株式移転設立完全親会社」
The new stock company formed in a share transfer, which acquires all the issued shares of the companies carrying it out.
Short name set inArticle 773, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies only in this part
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.