To call an audit and supervisory committee meeting, an audit and supervisory committee member must dispatch the notice thereof to each audit and supervisory committee member no later than one week (or if a shorter period of time is prescribed by the articles of incorporation, the shorter period of time) prior to the day of the committee meeting.
監査等委員会を招集するには、監査等委員は、監査等委員会の日の一週間（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）前までに、各監査等委員に対してその通知を発しなければならない。
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the audit and supervisory committee meeting may be held without the procedures for calling it if the consent of all audit and supervisory committee members is obtained.
If requested by the audit and supervisory committee, directors (in cases of a company with accounting advisor, directors and accounting advisors) must attend the audit and supervisory committee meeting and provide explanations on the matters requested by the audit and supervisory committee.
取締役（会計参与設置会社にあっては、取締役及び会計参与）は、監査等委員会の要求があったときは、監査等委員会に出席し、監査等委員会が求めた事項について説明をしなければならない。
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company with accounting advisor
「会計参与設置会社」
A stock company that has an accounting advisor, an officer who prepares the financial statements jointly with the directors.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (viii)· applies throughout the law
audit and supervisory committee membermachine translation
「監査等委員」
A member of the audit and supervisory committee of a company with audit and supervisory committee.
Defined inArticle 38, 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.
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.