At a shareholders meeting, a person to investigate the materials submitted or provided to relevant shareholders meeting by the directors, accounting advisors, company auditors, board of company auditors and financial auditors may be elected by a resolution at the relevant shareholders meeting.
株主総会においては、その決議によって、取締役、会計参与、監査役、監査役会及び会計監査人が当該株主総会に提出し、又は提供した資料を調査する者を選任することができる。
At the shareholders meeting which is called pursuant to the provisions of Article 297, a person who will be charged to investigate the status of the operations and property of the stock company may be elected by a resolution at the relevant shareholders meeting.
第二百九十七条の規定により招集された株主総会においては、その決議によって、株式会社の業務及び財産の状況を調査する者を選任することができる。
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(Demand for Calling of Meetings by Shareholders)
Shareholders having consecutively for the preceding six months or more (or, if shorter period is prescribed in the articles of incorporation, the period or more) not less than three hundredths…
総株主の議決権の百分の三（これを下回る割合を定款で定めた場合にあっては、その割合）以上の議決権を六箇月（これを下回る期間を定款で定めた場合にあっては、その期間）前から引き続き有する株主は、取締役に対し、株主総会の目的である事項（当該株主が議決権を行使することができる事項に限る。）及び招集の理由を示して…
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監査役
An officer of a stock company, elected by the shareholders meeting (Companies Act, Article 329, paragraph (1)), whose job is to audit how the directors carry out their duties and to write an audit report on it (Article 381, paragraph (1)). Not an outside accountant — that is the financial auditor (会計監査人) — and not a director: a company auditor may not also be a director or employee of the company or its subsidiaries (Article 335, paragraph (2)). The term normally runs to the annual shareholders meeting for the last business year ending within four years of election (Article 336, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 329, 335, 336, 381 as a reference.
director
取締役
An officer of a stock company, elected by the shareholders meeting (Companies Act, Article 329, paragraph (1)). Every stock company has at least one (Article 326, paragraph (1)). Where there is no board of directors, the directors run the company's business unless the articles of incorporation say otherwise (Article 348, paragraph (1)), and each of them represents it unless the company has chosen representative directors (代表取締役) or others to do that (Article 349, paragraphs (1) and (3)). Where there is a board (取締役会, board of directors), the directors are its members, and the board decides the business and normally chooses the representative directors from among them (Article 362). The term normally runs to the annual shareholders meeting for the last business year ending within two years of election (Article 332, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 326, 329, 332, 348, 349, 362 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.