# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第二百三十一条 (Article 231) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-231. 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: 第二百三十一条 (Article 231)（株券喪失登録簿の備置き及び閲覧等） — address `art-231` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-231 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-231 - 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. --- ### 第二百三十一条（株券喪失登録簿の備置き及び閲覧等） — (Keeping and Making Available for Inspection of the Lost Share Certificates Register) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-231 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-231 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-231 **第一項** 株券発行会社は、株券喪失登録簿をその本店（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-231/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-231/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-231/par-1 A share certificate-issuing company must keep the lost share certificates 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** 何人も、株券発行会社の営業時間内は、いつでも、株券喪失登録簿（利害関係がある部分に限る。）について、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-231/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-231/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-231/par-2 Any person may submit the following requests at any time during the business hours of a share certificate-issuing company with respect to the lost share certificates register (limited to the portion in which the person has an interest). In these cases, the reasons for the request must be disclosed: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 株券喪失登録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-231/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-231/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-231/par-2/item-1 if the lost share certificates register has been prepared in writing, a request for the review or copying of relevant document; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 株券喪失登録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-231/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-231/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-231/par-2/item-2 if the lost share certificates 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 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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