# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第百条 (Article 100) - Law: 会社法 (Companies Act), 平成十七年法律第八十六号 - English title "Companies Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百条 (Article 100) — address `art-100` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-100 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-100 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百条 art-100 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-100 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-100 **第一項** 設立しようとする株式会社が種類株式発行会社である場合において、定款を変更してある種類の株式の内容として第百八条第一項第四号又は第七号に掲げる事項についての定款の定めを設けるときは、当該定款の変更は、次に掲げる設立時種類株主を構成員とする種類創立総会（当該設立時種類株主に係る設立時発行株式の種類が二以上ある場合にあっては、当該二以上の設立時発行株式の種類別に区分された設立時種類株主を構成員とする各種類創立総会。以下この条において同じ。）の決議がなければ、その効力を生じない。ただし、当該種類創立総会において議決権を行使することができる設立時種類株主が存しない場合は、この限りでない。 art-100/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-100/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-100/par-1 If the stock company to be incorporated is a company with class shares, if it is intended to create, as a feature of a certain class of shares, any provisions in the articles of incorporation with respect to the matters set forth in Article 108, paragraph (1), item (iv) or item (vii) by amending the articles of incorporation, relevant amendment in the articles of incorporation does not become effective unless a resolution is passed at an organizational meeting of class shareholders constituted by the following class shareholders at incorporation (if there are two or more classes of shares issued at incorporation relating to relevant class shareholders at incorporation, referring to the respective organizational meetings of class shareholders constituted by class shareholders at incorporation categorized by the class of relevant two or more classes of shares issued at incorporation; hereinafter the same applies in this Article); provided, however, that this does not apply to cases where there is no class shareholder at incorporation who may exercise votes at relevant organizational meeting of class shareholders: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当該種類の設立時発行株式の設立時種類株主 art-100/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-100/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-100/par-1/item-1 the class shareholders at incorporation of relevant class of shares issued at incorporation; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第百八条第二項第五号ロの他の株式を当該種類の株式とする定めがある取得請求権付株式の設立時種類株主 art-100/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-100/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-100/par-1/item-2 the class shareholders at incorporation of shares with put options for which there are provisions that the relevant other shares referred to in Article 108, paragraph (2), item (v), (b) are to be relevant class of share; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 第百八条第二項第六号ロの他の株式を当該種類の株式とする定めがある取得条項付株式の設立時種類株主 art-100/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-100/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-100/par-1/item-3 the class shareholders at incorporation of shares subject to call option for which there are provisions that the relevant other shares referred to in Article 108, paragraph (2), item (vi), (b) are to be relevant class of shares. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "the class shareholders at incorporation of shares subject to call option for which there are a provisions that the relevant other shares referred to in Article 108, paragraph (2), item (vi), (b) are to be relevant class of shares." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4481/tb **第二項** 前項に規定する種類創立総会において当該定款の変更に反対した設立時種類株主は、当該種類創立総会の決議後二週間以内に限り、その設立時発行株式の引受けに係る意思表示を取り消すことができる。 art-100/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-100/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-100/par-2 The class shareholders at incorporation who, at the organizational meeting of class shareholders referred to in the preceding paragraph, dissented from relevant amendment in the articles of incorporation may rescind the manifestation of their intention relating to the subscription for relevant shares issued at incorporation only within two weeks after the resolution passed at relevant organizational meeting of class shareholders. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-100/par-1: 第百八条第一項第四号 → 会社法 第百八条第一項第四号 (Article 108, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-108/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-108/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-108/par-1/item-4 - art-100/par-1: 第七号 → 会社法 第百八条第一項第七号 (Article 108, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-108/par-1/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-108/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-108/par-1/item-7 - art-100/par-1: この条 → 会社法 第百条 (Article 100), art-100 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-100 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-100 - art-100/par-1/item-2: 第百八条第二項第五号 → 会社法 第百八条第二項第五号 (Article 108, paragraph (2), item (v)), art-108/par-2/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-108/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-108/par-2/item-5 - art-100/par-1/item-3: 第百八条第二項第六号 → 会社法 第百八条第二項第六号 (Article 108, paragraph (2), item (vi)), art-108/par-2/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-108/par-2/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-108/par-2/item-6 - art-100/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第百条第一項 (Article 100, paragraph (1)), art-100/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-100/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-100/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第八十五条第一項（種類創立総会の招集及び決議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-85/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-85/par-1 - 会社法 第八十五条第三項（種類創立総会の招集及び決議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-85/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-85/par-3 - 会社法 第百条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-100/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-100/par-1 - 会社法 第百条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-100/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-100/par-2 - 会社法 第九百十一条第二項第四号（株式会社の設立の登記） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-911/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-911/par-2/item-4 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of eight provisions that cite one provision as several or put "a" before a plural, written 2026-10-07 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 会社法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/417AC0000000086/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-09-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Companies Act (会社法), Article 100, paragraph (1), item (iii) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4481/tb), retrieved 2026-09-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Companies Act — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4481/tb), retrieved 2026-09-17 - This site's parser, version 211 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17