# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第百三十六条 (Article 136) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-136. 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: 第百三十六条 (Article 136)（株主からの承認の請求） — address `art-136` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-136 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-136 - 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. --- ### 第百三十六条（株主からの承認の請求） — (Requests for Approval by Shareholders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-136 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-136 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-136 **第一項** 譲渡制限株式の株主は、その有する譲渡制限株式を他人（当該譲渡制限株式を発行した株式会社を除く。）に譲り渡そうとするときは、当該株式会社に対し、当該他人が当該譲渡制限株式を取得することについて承認をするか否かの決定をすることを請求することができる。 art-136/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-136/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-136/par-1 If shareholders of shares with restriction on transfer intend to transfer the shares with restriction on transfer held by the same to others (excluding the stock company which issued relevant shares with restriction on transfer), they may request that relevant stock company make a determination as to whether or not to approve the acquisition by relevant others of relevant shares with restriction on transfer. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第百七条第二項第一号ロ（株式の内容についての特別の定め） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-107/par-2/item-1/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-107/par-2/item-1/sub-2 - 会社法 第百三十四条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-134/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-134/par-1/item-1 - 会社法 第百三十八条第一項第一号（譲渡等承認請求の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-138/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-138/par-1/item-1 - 会社法 第百三十八条第一項第一号ハ（譲渡等承認請求の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-138/par-1/item-1/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-138/par-1/item-1/sub-3 - 会社法 第百三十九条第一項（譲渡等の承認の決定等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-139/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-139/par-1 - 会社法 第百四十条第一項（株式会社又は指定買取人による買取り） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-140/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-140/par-1 - 会社法 第百四十五条第一項（株式会社が承認をしたとみなされる場合） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-145/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-145/par-1 - 会社法 第百四十五条第一項第一号（株式会社が承認をしたとみなされる場合） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-145/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-145/par-1/item-1 - 会社法 第三百九十九条の十三第五項第一号（監査等委員会設置会社の取締役会の権限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-399-13/par-5/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-399-13/par-5/item-1 - 会社法 第四百十六条第四項第一号（指名委員会等設置会社の取締役会の権限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-416/par-4/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-416/par-4/item-1 --- ## 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