A nominating committee determines the contents of proposals regarding the election and dismissal of directors (or directors and accounting advisors for a company with accounting advisor) to be submitted to a shareholders meeting.
指名委員会は、株主総会に提出する取締役（会計参与設置会社にあっては、取締役及び会計参与）の選任及び解任に関する議案の内容を決定する。
An audit committee performs the following duties:
監査委員会は、次に掲げる職務を行う。
auditing the execution of duties by executive officers, etc. (meaning executive officers and directors, or, for a company with accounting advisor, meaning executive officers, directors and accounting advisors; hereinafter the same applies in this Section) and preparing audit reports; and
執行役等（執行役及び取締役をいい、会計参与設置会社にあっては、執行役、取締役及び会計参与をいう。以下この節において同じ。）の職務の執行の監査及び監査報告の作成
determining the contents of proposals regarding the election and dismissal of financial auditors and the refusal to reelect financial auditors to be submitted to a shareholders meeting.
株主総会に提出する会計監査人の選任及び解任並びに会計監査人を再任しないことに関する議案の内容の決定
Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 361, paragraph (1) and Article 379, paragraphs (1) and (2), a remuneration committee determines the contents of the remunerations for individual executive officers, etc. If an executive officer acts concurrently as an employee, including a manager, of a company with nominating committee, etc., the same applies to the contents of the remunerations for relevant employee, including a manager.
報酬委員会は、第三百六十一条第一項並びに第三百七十九条第一項及び第二項の規定にかかわらず、執行役等の個人別の報酬等の内容を決定する。執行役が指名委員会等設置会社の支配人その他の使用人を兼ねているときは、当該支配人その他の使用人の報酬等の内容についても、同様とする。
If committee members make the following requests to a company with nominating committee, etc. with respect to the execution of their duties (limited to that regarding the execution of the duties of the nominating committee, etc. to which relevant committee members belong; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), relevant company with nominating committee, etc. may not refuse the request except if it proves that the expense or debt relating to the request is not necessary for the execution of the duties of relevant committee members:
委員がその職務の執行（当該委員が所属する指名委員会等の職務の執行に関するものに限る。以下この項において同じ。）について指名委員会等設置会社に対して次に掲げる請求をしたときは、当該指名委員会等設置会社は、当該請求に係る費用又は債務が当該委員の職務の執行に必要でないことを証明した場合を除き、これを拒むことができない。
requests for advancement of the expenses;
費用の前払の請求
request for the indemnification of the expenses paid and interests thereon from and including the day of the payment; or
支出をした費用及び支出の日以後におけるその利息の償還の請求
requests for the payment (or, if relevant debt is not yet due, the provision of reasonable security) to the creditor of a debt incurred.
負担した債務の債権者に対する弁済（当該債務が弁済期にない場合にあっては、相当の担保の提供）の請求
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(Remuneration for Directors)
The following matters with respect to the financial benefits received from a stock company as a consideration for the execution of the duties, such as remunerations and bonuses…
取締役の報酬、賞与その他の職務執行の対価として株式会社から受ける財産上の利益（以下この章において「報酬等」という。）についての次に掲げる事項は、定款に当該事項を定めていないときは、株主総会の決議によって定める。
Open this provision(Remunerations for Accounting Advisors)
The remunerations for accounting advisors are fixed by a resolution at a shareholders meeting if the amount thereof is not prescribed in the articles of incorporation.
会計参与の報酬等は、定款にその額を定めていないときは、株主総会の決議によって定める。
Open this provision(Remunerations for Accounting Advisors)
If there are two or more accounting advisors, and there are no provisions in the articles of incorporation or no resolution at a shareholders meeting with respect to the remunerations for each…
会計参与が二人以上ある場合において、各会計参与の報酬等について定款の定め又は株主総会の決議がないときは、当該報酬等は、前項の報酬等の範囲内において、会計参与の協議によって定める。
Open this provision(Authority of Nominating Committee)
If committee members make the following requests to a company with nominating committee, etc. with respect to the execution of their duties…
委員がその職務の執行（当該委員が所属する指名委員会等の職務の執行に関するものに限る。以下この項において同じ。）について指名委員会等設置会社に対して次に掲げる請求をしたときは、当該指名委員会等設置会社は、当該請求に係る費用又は債務が当該委員の職務の執行に必要でないことを証明した場合を除き、これを拒むことができない。
Open this provisioncompany 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
nominating committees, etc.machine translation
「指名委員会等」
The three committees of a company with nominating committee, etc.: its nominating committee, audit committee and remuneration committee.
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xii)
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
remunerations
「報酬等」
The pay, bonuses and any other financial benefit that directors and other officers receive from a stock company in return for doing their job.
Short name set inArticle 361, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
executive officers, etc.machine translation
「執行役等」
In a company with nominating committee, etc., its executive officers and directors, and its accounting advisors too if it has them: the people whose work the audit committee audits.
Defined inArticle 404, paragraph (2), item (i)· applies only in this section
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.