# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百三条 (Article 303) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-303. 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: 第三百三条 (Article 303)（株主提案権） — address `art-303` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-303 - e-Gov law ID: 417AC0000000086 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第三百三条（株主提案権） — (Shareholders' Right to Propose) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-303 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-303 **第一項** 株主は、取締役に対し、一定の事項（当該株主が議決権を行使することができる事項に限る。次項において同じ。）を株主総会の目的とすることを請求することができる。 art-303/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-303/par-1 Shareholders may demand that the directors include certain matters (limited to the matters on which relevant shareholders may vote; the same applies in the following paragraph) in the purpose of the shareholders meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、取締役会設置会社においては、総株主の議決権の百分の一（これを下回る割合を定款で定めた場合にあっては、その割合）以上の議決権又は三百個（これを下回る数を定款で定めた場合にあっては、その個数）以上の議決権を六箇月（これを下回る期間を定款で定めた場合にあっては、その期間）前から引き続き有する株主に限り、取締役に対し、一定の事項を株主総会の目的とすることを請求することができる。この場合において、その請求は、株主総会の日の八週間（これを下回る期間を定款で定めた場合にあっては、その期間）前までにしなければならない。 art-303/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-303/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, at a company with board of directors, only shareholders having consecutively for the preceding six months or more (or, if shorter period is prescribed in the articles of incorporation, the period or more) not less than one hundredth (or, if lesser proportion is prescribed in the articles of incorporation, the proportion) of the votes of all shareholders or not less than three hundred (or, if lesser number is prescribed in the articles of incorporation, the number of) votes of all shareholders may demand the directors that the directors include certain matters in the purpose of the shareholders meeting. In these cases, that demand must be submitted no later than eight weeks (or, if shorter period is prescribed in the articles of incorporation, the period or more) prior to the day of the shareholders meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 公開会社でない取締役会設置会社における前項の規定の適用については、同項中「六箇月（これを下回る期間を定款で定めた場合にあっては、その期間）前から引き続き有する」とあるのは、「有する」とする。 art-303/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-303/par-3 For the purpose of the application of the preceding paragraph to a company with board of directors which is not a public company, the phrase "having consecutively for the preceding six months or more (or, if shorter period is prescribed in the articles of incorporation, the period or more)" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "having". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第二項の一定の事項について議決権を行使することができない株主が有する議決権の数は、同項の総株主の議決権の数に算入しない。 art-303/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-303/par-4 The number of the votes to which the shareholders who may not vote on the certain matters referred to in paragraph (2) are entitled is not included in the number of the votes of all shareholders under that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-303/par-1: 次項 → 会社法 第三百三条第二項 (Article 303, paragraph (2)), art-303/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-303/par-2 - art-303/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第三百三条第一項 (Article 303, paragraph (1)), art-303/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-303/par-1 - art-303/par-3: 前項 → 会社法 第三百三条第二項 (Article 303, paragraph (2)), art-303/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-303/par-2 - art-303/par-4: 第二項 → 会社法 第三百三条第二項 (Article 303, paragraph (2)), art-303/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-303/par-2 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百三条第一項（株主提案権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-303/par-1 - 会社法 第三百三条第二項（株主提案権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-303/par-2 - 会社法 第三百三条第三項（株主提案権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-303/par-3 - 会社法 第三百三条第四項（株主提案権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-303/par-4 - 会社法 第九百六十八条第一項第二号（株主等の権利の行使に関する贈収賄罪） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-968/par-1/item-2 - 会社法 第九百七十六条第一項第十八号の二（過料に処すべき行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-976/par-1/item-18-2 --- ## 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 229 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17