# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百八条 (Article 308) - 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: 第三百八条 (Article 308)（議決権の数） — address `art-308` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-308 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-308 - 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. --- ### 第三百八条（議決権の数） — (Number of Votes) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-308 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-308 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-308 **第一項** 株主（株式会社がその総株主の議決権の四分の一以上を有することその他の事由を通じて株式会社がその経営を実質的に支配することが可能な関係にあるものとして法務省令で定める株主を除く。）は、株主総会において、その有する株式一株につき一個の議決権を有する。ただし、単元株式数を定款で定めている場合には、一単元の株式につき一個の議決権を有する。 art-308/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-308/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-308/par-1 Shareholders (excluding the shareholder prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order as the entity in a relationship that may allow the stock company to have substantial control of the entity through the holding of one quarter or more of the votes of all shareholders of the entity or other reasons) are entitled to one vote for each one share they hold at the shareholders meeting; provided, however, that, in cases where a share unit is provided for in the articles of incorporation, they are entitled to one vote for each one unit of the shares. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、株式会社は、自己株式については、議決権を有しない。 art-308/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-308/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-308/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, a stock company does not have any votes with respect to its treasury shares. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-308/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第三百八条第一項 (Article 308, paragraph (1)), art-308/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-308/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-308/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百八条第二項（議決権の数） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-308/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-308/par-2 - 会社法 第三百二十五条第一項（株主総会に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-325/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-325/par-1 - 会社法 第三百四十二条第三項（累積投票による取締役の選任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-342/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-342/par-3 - 会社法 第八百七十九条第三項（特別清算事件の管轄） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-879/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-879/par-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