A company with board of directors must keep the minutes referred to in Article 369, paragraph (3) or the document or electronic or magnetic record in which the manifestation of intention under the preceding Article (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "minutes") has been detailed or recorded at its head office for the period of ten years from the day of the board of directors meeting (including the day when a resolution at a board of directors meeting is deemed to have been passed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article).
取締役会設置会社は、取締役会の日（前条の規定により取締役会の決議があったものとみなされた日を含む。）から十年間、第三百六十九条第三項の議事録又は前条の意思表示を記載し、若しくは記録した書面若しくは電磁的記録（以下この条において「議事録等」という。）をその本店に備え置かなければならない。
If it is necessary for the purpose of exercising the rights of a shareholder, the relevant shareholder may make the following requests at any time during the business hours of a stock company:
株主は、その権利を行使するため必要があるときは、株式会社の営業時間内は、いつでも、次に掲げる請求をすることができる。
if the minutes under the preceding paragraph are prepared in writing, requests for inspection or copying of relevant documents; and
if the minutes under the preceding paragraph have been prepared as an electronic or magnetic record, a request to inspect or copy anything that is used in a manner prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order to display the information recorded in that electronic or magnetic record.
For the purpose of the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph to a company with company auditor, company with audit and supervisory committee, and company with nominating committee, etc., the phrase "at any time during the business hours of a stock company" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "with the permission of the court".
監査役設置会社、監査等委員会設置会社又は指名委員会等設置会社における前項の規定の適用については、同項中「株式会社の営業時間内は、いつでも」とあるのは、「裁判所の許可を得て」とする。
If it is necessary for the purpose of enforcing the liability of officers or executive officers by a creditor of a company with board of directors, the creditor may, with the permission of the court, make the request set forth in each item of paragraph (2) with respect to the minutes of relevant company with board of directors.
The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to the cases where it is necessary for the purpose of exercising the rights of a member of the parent company of a company with board of directors.
If the court finds that the inspection or copying relating to the requests set forth in each item of paragraph (2) applied pursuant to paragraph (3) following the deemed replacement of terms, or a request under paragraph (4) (including the case of the mutatis mutandis application under the preceding paragraph; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) is likely to cause substantial detriment to relevant company with board of directors or its parent company or subsidiary company, the court may not grant the permission under paragraph (2) applied pursuant to paragraph (3) following the deemed replacement of terms or the permission under paragraph (4).
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subsidiary company
「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
parent company
「親会社」
A company that has a stock company as its subsidiary company, or any other corporation that controls a stock company's management, as set out by Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iv)· applies throughout the law
company 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 company auditor
「監査役設置会社」
A stock company that has a company auditor whose audit its articles of incorporation do not limit to accounting matters, or that this Act requires to have a company auditor.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ix)· applies throughout the law
company with audit and supervisory committee
「監査等委員会設置会社」
A stock company that has an audit and supervisory committee, made up of directors.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xi-2)· applies throughout the law
company with nominating committee, etc.machine translation
「指名委員会等設置会社」
A stock company with a nominating committee, an audit committee and a remuneration committee, each made up of directors.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xii)· applies throughout the law
electronic or magnetic record
「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)
member of the parent companymachine translation
「親会社社員」
A shareholder or other member of a company's parent company, who may, with the court's permission, inspect records of the subsidiary where needed to exercise their rights.
Defined inArticle 31, paragraph (3)
officermachine translation
「役員」
The directors, accounting advisors and company auditors of a stock company, as listed in Article 329, paragraph (1).
Defined inArticle 329, paragraph (1)· applies only in this section and in Article 371, paragraph (4); and Article 394, paragraph (3)
minutes
「議事録等」
The minutes of a board of directors meeting, or the written or electronic consents by which a board resolution was passed without a meeting, which the company must keep at its head office for ten years.
Short name set inArticle 371, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article
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.
manifestation of intention
意思表示
A person's expression of an intention to which the law gives a legal effect, such as an offer to conclude a contract, which shows its terms and forms the contract once the other party accepts it (Civil Code, Article 522, paragraph (1)), the acceptance itself (Article 527), or the notice to the other party by which a party rescinds (取消し) an act or cancels (解除) a contract (Articles 123 and 540, paragraph (1)). One made to another person takes effect when notice of it reaches that person, or when it would normally have reached them if they blocked it without good reason (Article 97, paragraphs (1) and (2)), and does not lose its effect because the person who made it dies, loses mental capacity (意思能力) or comes under legal limits on what they can do alone after sending the notice (Article 97, paragraph (3)); where the person making it cannot find out who the other party is or where they are, it can be made by public notice (Article 98, paragraph (1)). It is not void just because the person making it knew it was not their true intention, unless the other party knew or could have known that (Article 93, paragraph (1)); a false one made in collusion with the other party is void (Article 94, paragraph (1)); and neither voidness can be asserted against a third party who did not know of it (善意) (Articles 93, paragraph (2), and 94, paragraph (2)). One based on a mistake that is material in light of the purpose of the juridical act (法律行為) and accepted views in dealings may be rescinded — one based on a mistaken view of the circumstances behind the act only if it had been shown that the act was based on them, and as a rule not where the mistake came from the gross negligence of the person who made it (Article 95, paragraphs (1) to (3)) — and so may one made under fraud or duress, though one induced by a third party's fraud only if the other party knew of the fraud or could have known of it (Article 96, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a rescission for mistake or fraud cannot be relied on against a third party who did not know and was not careless in not knowing (Article 95, paragraph (4), and Article 96, paragraph (3)). One that an agent makes within the agent's authority, showing that it is made for the principal, takes effect directly for the principal (Article 99, paragraph (1)). The Consumer Contract Act lets a consumer rescind an offer or acceptance of a consumer contract made because the business, when soliciting it, told them something untrue about an important matter and they believed it, among other grounds (Consumer Contract Act, Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i)), and the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions does the same where, in a door-to-door sale, the seller or service provider told them something untrue about such matters as the goods or the price (Article 6, paragraph (1), and Article 9-3, paragraph (1), item (i)).
Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 123, 522, 527, 540, Consumer Contract Act, Art. 4 and Act on Specified Commercial Transactions, Arts. 6, 9-3 as a reference.