In order to incorporate a stock company, incorporator must prepare articles of incorporation, and all incorporators must sign or affix the name and seal to it.
株式会社を設立するには、発起人が定款を作成し、その全員がこれに署名し、又は記名押印しなければならない。
Articles of incorporation referred to in the preceding paragraph may be prepared in the form of an electronic or magnetic record (meaning a record that Ministry of Justice Order prescribes as being used in computerized information processing and created in electronic form, magnetic form, or any other form that cannot be perceived by the human senses; the same applies hereinafter). In these cases, actions prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order must be taken in lieu of the signing or the affixing of the names and seals, with respect to the data recorded in such an electronic or magnetic record.
前項の定款は、電磁的記録（電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によっては認識することができない方式で作られる記録であって、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるものとして法務省令で定めるものをいう。以下同じ。）をもって作成することができる。この場合において、当該電磁的記録に記録された情報については、法務省令で定める署名又は記名押印に代わる措置をとらなければならない。
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(Preparation of Articles of Incorporation)
In order to incorporate a stock company, incorporator must prepare articles of incorporation, and all incorporators must sign or affix the name and seal to it.
株式会社を設立するには、発起人が定款を作成し、その全員がこれに署名し、又は記名押印しなければならない。
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「電磁的記録」
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive directly, of a kind that Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令) specifies as used in computer processing.
Defined inArticle 26, paragraph (2)
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.