# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第百五十八条 (Article 158) - 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: 第百五十八条 (Article 158)（株主に対する通知等） — address `art-158` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-158 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-158 - 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. --- ### 第百五十八条（株主に対する通知等） — (Notice to Shareholders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-158 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-158 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-158 **第一項** 株式会社は、株主（種類株式発行会社にあっては、取得する株式の種類の種類株主）に対し、前条第一項各号に掲げる事項を通知しなければならない。 art-158/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-158/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-158/par-1 A stock company must notify its shareholders (or, for a company with class shares, the class shareholders of the classes of the shares it intends to acquire) of the matters set forth in each item of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 公開会社においては、前項の規定による通知は、公告をもってこれに代えることができる。 art-158/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-158/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-158/par-2 A public company may substitute a public notice for the notice under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-158/par-1: 前条第一項 → 会社法 第百五十七条第一項 (Article 157, paragraph (1)), art-157/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-157/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-157/par-1 - art-158/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第百五十八条第一項 (Article 158, paragraph (1)), art-158/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-158/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-158/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第百五十八条第二項（株主に対する通知等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-158/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-158/par-2 - 会社法 第百五十九条第一項（譲渡しの申込み） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-159/par-1 - 会社法 第百六十条第一項（特定の株主からの取得） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-160/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-160/par-1 - 会社法 第百六十条第五項（特定の株主からの取得） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-160/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-160/par-5 - 会社法 第百六十三条第一項（子会社からの株式の取得） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-163/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-163/par-1 - 会社法 第百六十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-165/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-165/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第二十七条の二十二の二第一項第一号（発行者による上場株券等の公開買付け） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-22-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-22-2/par-1/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 211 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17