# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第百十三条 (Article 113) - 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: 第百十三条 (Article 113)（発行可能株式総数） — address `art-113` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-113 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-113 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百十三条（発行可能株式総数） — (Total Number of Authorized Shares) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-113 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-113 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-113 **第一項** 株式会社は、定款を変更して発行可能株式総数についての定めを廃止することができない。 art-113/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-113/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-113/par-1 A stock company may not abolish the provisions on the total number of authorized shares by amending its articles of incorporation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 定款を変更して発行可能株式総数を減少するときは、変更後の発行可能株式総数は、当該定款の変更が効力を生じた時における発行済株式の総数を下ることができない。 art-113/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-113/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-113/par-2 If it is intended to reduce the total number of authorized shares by amending the articles of incorporation, the total number of authorized shares after the amendment may not be less than the total number of the issued shares at the time when relevant amendment to the articles of incorporation becomes effective. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 次に掲げる場合には、当該定款の変更後の発行可能株式総数は、当該定款の変更が効力を生じた時における発行済株式の総数の四倍を超えることができない。 art-113/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-113/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-113/par-3 In the following cases, the total number of authorized shares after relevant amendment in the articles of incorporations may not exceed the number four times the total number of the issued shares at the time when that amendment to the articles of incorporation becomes effective: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 公開会社が定款を変更して発行可能株式総数を増加する場合 art-113/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-113/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-113/par-3/item-1 if a public company amends the articles of incorporation and increases the total number of authorized shares; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 公開会社でない株式会社が定款を変更して公開会社となる場合 art-113/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-113/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-113/par-3/item-2 if a stock company that is not a public company amends the articles of incorporation and becomes a public company. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 新株予約権（第二百三十六条第一項第四号の期間の初日が到来していないものを除く。）の新株予約権者が第二百八十二条第一項の規定により取得することとなる株式の数は、発行可能株式総数から発行済株式（自己株式（株式会社が有する自己の株式をいう。以下同じ。）を除く。）の総数を控除して得た数を超えてはならない。 art-113/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-113/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-113/par-4 The number of the shares which a holder of share options (excluding share options for which the first day of the period prescribed in Article 236, paragraph (1), item (iv) has not yet arrived) acquire pursuant to the provisions of Article 282, paragraph (1) may not exceed the number obtained by subtracting the total number of the issued shares (excluding treasury shares (meaning shares in a stock company owned by that stock company itself; the same applies hereinafter)) from the total number of authorized shares. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-113/par-4: 第二百三十六条第一項第四号 → 会社法 第二百三十六条第一項第四号 (Article 236, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-236/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-236/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-236/par-1/item-4 - art-113/par-4: 第二百八十二条第一項 → 会社法 第二百八十二条第一項 (Article 282, paragraph (1)), art-282/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-282/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-282/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 附則第七条第一項（公開会社となる場合における発行可能株式総数に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/suppl-4261-90/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/suppl-4261-90/art-7/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第二十七条の二十三第四項（大量保有報告書の提出） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-23/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-23/par-4 --- ## Sources - 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 — 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