# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第百七十五条 (Article 175)

- 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: 第百七十五条 (Article 175)（売渡しの請求の決定） — address `art-175`
- Text in force since: 2026-08-12
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-175
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-175
- 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.

---

### 第百七十五条（売渡しの請求の決定） — (Determinations Regarding Demand for Sale)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-175 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-175 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-175</sup>

      **第一項**  株式会社は、前条の規定による定款の定めがある場合において、次条第一項の規定による請求をしようとするときは、その都度、株主総会の決議によって、次に掲げる事項を定めなければならない。
      <sup>art-175/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-175/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-175/par-1</sup>
      If there are provisions of the articles of incorporation under the provisions of the preceding Article, whenever a stock company intends to effect a demand pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the following Article, it must prescribe the following matters by a resolution at a shareholders meeting:
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

        **一**  次条第一項の規定による請求をする株式の数（種類株式発行会社にあっては、株式の種類及び種類ごとの数）
        <sup>art-175/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-175/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-175/par-1/item-1</sup>
        the number of shares for which the stock company intends to effect the demand pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the following Article (or, for a company with class shares, the classes of the shares and the number of shares for each class); and
        <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

        **二**  前号の株式を有する者の氏名又は名称
        <sup>art-175/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-175/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-175/par-1/item-2</sup>
        the names of the persons who hold the shares under the preceding item.
        <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

      **第二項**  前項第二号の者は、同項の株主総会において議決権を行使することができない。ただし、同号の者以外の株主の全部が当該株主総会において議決権を行使することができない場合は、この限りでない。
      <sup>art-175/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-175/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-175/par-2</sup>
      The persons under item (ii) of the preceding paragraph may not exercise voting right at the shareholders meeting under that paragraph; provided, however, that this does not apply if all shareholders other than the persons under that paragraph may not exercise the voting right at relevant shareholders meeting.
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

---

## Cites
- art-175/par-1: 前条 → 会社法 第百七十四条 (Article 174), art-174 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-174 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-174
- art-175/par-1: 次条第一項 → 会社法 第百七十六条第一項 (Article 176, paragraph (1)), art-176/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-176/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-176/par-1
- art-175/par-1/item-1: 次条第一項 → 会社法 第百七十六条第一項 (Article 176, paragraph (1)), art-176/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-176/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-176/par-1
- art-175/par-1/item-2: 前号 → 会社法 第百七十五条第一項第一号 (Article 175, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-175/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-175/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-175/par-1/item-1
- art-175/par-2: 前項第二号 → 会社法 第百七十五条第一項第二号 (Article 175, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-175/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-175/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-175/par-1/item-2
- art-175/par-2: 同項 → 会社法 第百七十五条第一項 (Article 175, paragraph (1)), art-175/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-175/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-175/par-1

## Cited by

7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 会社法 第百七十五条第一項第二号（売渡しの請求の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-175/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-175/par-1/item-2
- 会社法 第百七十五条第二項（売渡しの請求の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-175/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-175/par-2
- 会社法 第百七十六条第一項（売渡しの請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-176/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-176/par-1
- 会社法 第百七十七条第一項（売買価格の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-177/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-177/par-1
- 会社法 第百七十七条第二項（売買価格の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-177/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-177/par-2
- 会社法 第百七十七条第四項（売買価格の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-177/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-177/par-4
- 会社法 第三百九条第二項第三号（株主総会の決議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-309/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-309/par-2/item-3

---

## 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
