# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百十九条 (Article 319) - 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: 第三百十九条 (Article 319)（株主総会の決議の省略） — address `art-319` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三百十九条（株主総会の決議の省略） — (Omission of Resolutions at Shareholders Meetings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-319 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319 **第一項** 取締役又は株主が株主総会の目的である事項について提案をした場合において、当該提案につき株主（当該事項について議決権を行使することができるものに限る。）の全員が書面又は電磁的記録により同意の意思表示をしたときは、当該提案を可決する旨の株主総会の決議があったものとみなす。 art-319/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-1 If directors or shareholders submit a proposal with respect to a matter which is the purpose of the shareholders meeting, if all shareholders (limited to those who may vote with respect to relevant matter) manifest their intention to agree to relevant proposal in writing or in an electronic or magnetic record, it is deemed that the resolution to approve relevant proposal has been passed at the shareholders meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 株式会社は、前項の規定により株主総会の決議があったものとみなされた日から十年間、同項の書面又は電磁的記録をその本店に備え置かなければならない。 art-319/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-2 The stock company must keep the document or electronic or magnetic record referred to in the preceding paragraph at its head office for a period of ten years from the day when the resolution at the shareholders meeting is deemed to have been passed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 株主及び債権者は、株式会社の営業時間内は、いつでも、次に掲げる請求をすることができる。 art-319/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-3 The shareholders and creditors may submit the following requests at any time during the business hours of the stock company: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 前項の書面の閲覧又は謄写の請求 art-319/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-3/item-1 request for inspection or copying of the documents under the preceding paragraph; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 前項の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-319/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-3/item-2 request to inspect or copy anything that is used in a manner prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order to display the information recorded in an electronic or magnetic record as referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 株式会社の親会社社員は、その権利を行使するため必要があるときは、裁判所の許可を得て、第二項の書面又は電磁的記録について前項各号に掲げる請求をすることができる。 art-319/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-4 If it is necessary for the purpose of exercising the rights of a member of the parent company of a stock company, the relevant member of the parent company may, with the permission of the court, make the requests set forth in each item of the preceding paragraph with respect to the document or electronic or magnetic record referred to in paragraph (2). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 第一項の規定により定時株主総会の目的である事項のすべてについての提案を可決する旨の株主総会の決議があったものとみなされた場合には、その時に当該定時株主総会が終結したものとみなす。 art-319/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-5 If it is deemed that the resolutions to approve proposals on all matters that are the purpose of the annual shareholders meeting have been passed at the shareholders meeting pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), relevant annual shareholders meeting is deemed concluded at that time. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-319/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第三百十九条第一項 (Article 319, paragraph (1)), art-319/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-1 - art-319/par-3/item-1: 前項 → 会社法 第三百十九条第二項 (Article 319, paragraph (2)), art-319/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-2 - art-319/par-3/item-2: 前項 → 会社法 第三百十九条第二項 (Article 319, paragraph (2)), art-319/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-2 - art-319/par-4: 第二項 → 会社法 第三百十九条第二項 (Article 319, paragraph (2)), art-319/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-2 - art-319/par-4: 前項 → 会社法 第三百十九条第三項 (Article 319, paragraph (3)), art-319/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-3 - art-319/par-5: 第一項 → 会社法 第三百十九条第一項 (Article 319, paragraph (1)), art-319/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-1 ## Cited by 17 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第百七十一条の二第一項第一号（全部取得条項付種類株式の取得対価等に関する書面等の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-171-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-171-2/par-1/item-1 - 会社法 第百八十二条の二第一項第一号（株式の併合に関する事項に関する書面等の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-182-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-182-2/par-1/item-1 - 会社法 第三百十九条第二項（株主総会の決議の省略） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-2 - 会社法 第三百十九条第三項第一号（株主総会の決議の省略） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-3/item-1 - 会社法 第三百十九条第三項第二号（株主総会の決議の省略） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-3/item-2 - 会社法 第三百十九条第四項（株主総会の決議の省略） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-4 - 会社法 第三百十九条第五項（株主総会の決議の省略） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-319/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-319/par-5 - 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 第三百七十八条第一項第一号（会計参与による計算書類等の備置き等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-378/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-378/par-1/item-1 - 会社法 第四百四十二条第一項第一号（計算書類等の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-442/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-442/par-1/item-1 - 会社法 第四百四十二条第二項第一号（計算書類等の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-442/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-442/par-2/item-1 - 会社法 第四百九十六条第一項（貸借対照表等の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-496/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-496/par-1 - 会社法 第七百八十二条第二項第一号（吸収合併契約等に関する書面等の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-782/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-782/par-2/item-1 - 会社法 第七百九十四条第二項第一号（吸収合併契約等に関する書面等の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-794/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-794/par-2/item-1 - 会社法 第八百三条第二項第一号（新設合併契約等に関する書面等の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-803/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-803/par-2/item-1 - 会社法 第八百十六条の二第二項第一号（株式交付計画に関する書面等の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-816-2/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-816-2/par-2/item-1 - 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 211 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17