# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第百八十七条 (Article 187) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-187. 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: 第百八十七条 (Article 187)（株式無償割当ての効力の発生等） — address `art-187` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-187 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-187 - 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. --- ### 第百八十七条（株式無償割当ての効力の発生等） — (Effectuation of Allotment of Shares without Contribution) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-187 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-187 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-187 **第一項** 前条第一項第一号の株式の割当てを受けた株主は、同項第二号の日に、同項第一号の株式の株主となる。 art-187/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-187/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-187/par-1 Shareholders to whom the shares under paragraph (1), item (i) of the preceding Article have been allotted become shareholders of the shares provided for in item (i) of that paragraph on the day provided for in item (ii) of that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 株式会社は、前条第一項第二号の日後遅滞なく、株主（種類株式発行会社にあっては、同項第三号の種類の種類株主）及びその登録株式質権者に対し、当該株主が割当てを受けた株式の数（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）を通知しなければならない。 art-187/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-187/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-187/par-2 Without delay after the day provided for in item (ii) of that paragraph, a stock company must notify shareholders (or, for a company with class shares, class shareholders of the classes under item (iii) of that paragraph) and the registered pledgees of the shares thereof of the number of the shares (or, for a company with class shares, the classes of the shares and the number of shares for each class) that have been allotted to the shareholders. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-187/par-1: 前条第一項第一号 → 会社法 第百八十六条第一項第一号 (Article 186, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-186/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-186/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-186/par-1/item-1 - art-187/par-1: 同項第二号 → 会社法 第百八十六条第一項第二号 (Article 186, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-186/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-186/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-186/par-1/item-2 - art-187/par-2: 前条第一項第二号 → 会社法 第百八十六条第一項第二号 (Article 186, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-186/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-186/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-186/par-1/item-2 - art-187/par-2: 同項第三号 → 会社法 第百八十六条第一項第三号 (Article 186, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-186/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-186/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-186/par-1/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 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17