# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第百二十五条 (Article 125) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - 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: 第百二十五条 (Article 125)（株主名簿の備置き及び閲覧等） — address `art-125` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125 - 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. --- ### 第百二十五条（株主名簿の備置き及び閲覧等） — (Keeping and Making Available for Inspection of Shareholder Register) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-125 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125 **第一項** 株式会社は、株主名簿をその本店（株主名簿管理人がある場合にあっては、その営業所）に備え置かなければならない。 art-125/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-1 A stock company must keep the shareholder register at its head office (or, if it has a shareholder register administrator, at its business office). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 株主及び債権者は、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。この場合においては、当該請求の理由を明らかにしてしなければならない。 art-125/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-2 Shareholders and creditors may make the following requests at any time during the business hours of the stock company. In these cases, the reasons for relevant requests must be disclosed: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 株主名簿が書面をもって作成されているときは、当該書面の閲覧又は謄写の請求 art-125/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-2/item-1 if the shareholder register is prepared in writing, a request for the inspection or copying of relevant document; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 株主名簿が電磁的記録をもって作成されているときは、当該電磁的記録に記録された事項を法務省令で定める方法により表示したものの閲覧又は謄写の請求 art-125/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-2/item-2 if the shareholder register has 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. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 株式会社は、前項の請求があったときは、次のいずれかに該当する場合を除き、これを拒むことができない。 art-125/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-3 If a request in the preceding paragraph is made, a stock company may not refuse the request, except cases it falls under any of the following: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当該請求を行う株主又は債権者（以下この項において「請求者」という。）がその権利の確保又は行使に関する調査以外の目的で請求を行ったとき。 art-125/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-3/item-1 the shareholder or creditor who made relevant request (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "requestor") made the request for other purposes than research on securing or exercising the requestor's rights; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 請求者が当該株式会社の業務の遂行を妨げ、又は株主の共同の利益を害する目的で請求を行ったとき。 art-125/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-3/item-2 the requestor made the request with the purpose of interfering with the execution of the operations of relevant stock company or prejudicing the common benefit of the shareholders; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 請求者が株主名簿の閲覧又は謄写によって知り得た事実を利益を得て第三者に通報するため請求を行ったとき。 art-125/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-3/item-3 the requestor made the request in order to notify the facts learned by inspecting or copying the shareholder register to third parties for profit; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 請求者が、過去二年以内において、株主名簿の閲覧又は謄写によって知り得た事実を利益を得て第三者に通報したことがあるものであるとき。 art-125/par-3/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-3/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-3/item-4 the requestor is a person who has notified the facts learned by inspecting or copying the shareholder register to third parties for profit in the immediately preceding two years. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 株式会社の親会社社員は、その権利を行使するため必要があるときは、裁判所の許可を得て、当該株式会社の株主名簿について第二項各号に掲げる請求をすることができる。この場合においては、当該請求の理由を明らかにしてしなければならない。 art-125/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-4 If it is necessary for the purpose of exercising the rights of a member of the parent company of a stock company, the relevant member of the parent company may, with the permission of the court, make the requests in each item of paragraph (2) with respect to the shareholder register of relevant stock company. In these cases, the reasons for the requests must be disclosed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 前項の親会社社員について第三項各号のいずれかに規定する事由があるときは、裁判所は、前項の許可をすることができない。 art-125/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-5 The court may not grant the permission in the preceding paragraph if grounds provided for in any item of paragraph (3) apply to the member of the parent company in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-125/par-3: 前項 → 会社法 第百二十五条第二項 (Article 125, paragraph (2)), art-125/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-2 - art-125/par-3/item-1: この項 → 会社法 第百二十五条第三項 (Article 125, paragraph (3)), art-125/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-3 - art-125/par-4: 第二項 → 会社法 第百二十五条第二項 (Article 125, paragraph (2)), art-125/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-2 - art-125/par-5: 前項 → 会社法 第百二十五条第四項 (Article 125, paragraph (4)), art-125/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-4 - art-125/par-5: 第三項 → 会社法 第百二十五条第三項 (Article 125, paragraph (3)), art-125/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-3 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第百二十五条第三項（株主名簿の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-3 - 会社法 第百二十五条第三項第一号（株主名簿の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-3/item-1 - 会社法 第百二十五条第四項（株主名簿の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-4 - 会社法 第百二十五条第五項（株主名簿の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-125/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-125/par-5 - 会社法 第九百七十六条第一項第八号（過料に処すべき行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-976/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-976/par-1/item-8 --- ## 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 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17