The provisions of Article 331, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) and Article 331-2 apply mutatis mutandis to company auditors.
第三百三十一条第一項及び第二項並びに第三百三十一条の二の規定は、監査役について準用する。
A company auditor of a stock company may not concurrently act as a director, employee, including manager, of that stock company or its subsidiary company, and may not act as an accounting advisor (if the accounting advisor is a corporation, the member who is in charge of its affairs) or an executive officer of relevant subsidiary company.
監査役は、株式会社若しくはその子会社の取締役若しくは支配人その他の使用人又は当該子会社の会計参与（会計参与が法人であるときは、その職務を行うべき社員）若しくは執行役を兼ねることができない。
A company with board of company auditors must have three or more company auditors, and the half or more of them must be outside company auditors.
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For an adult ward to assume the role of a director, the guardian of the adult ward must obtain the consent of the adult ward…
成年被後見人が取締役に就任するには、その成年後見人が、成年被後見人の同意（後見監督人がある場合にあっては、成年被後見人及び後見監督人の同意）を得た上で、成年被後見人に代わって就任の承諾をしなければならない。
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The following persons may not act as directors:
次に掲げる者は、取締役となることができない。
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A stock company may not provide in the articles of incorporation that directors must be shareholders; provided, however, that this does not apply to a stock company that is not a public company.
株式会社は、取締役が株主でなければならない旨を定款で定めることができない。ただし、公開会社でない株式会社においては、この限りでない。
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「子会社」
A stock company in which a company holds a majority of the votes, or any other corporation whose management a company controls, as set out by Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iii)· applies throughout the law
company with board of company auditors
「監査役会設置会社」
A stock company that has a board of company auditors, or that this Act requires to have one.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (x)· applies throughout the law
outside company auditor
「社外監査役」
A company auditor of a stock company who meets all the independence requirements in Article 2, item (xvi), such as not having been a director or employee of the company or its subsidiaries in the ten years before taking office.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xvi)· applies throughout the law
company auditor
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.