# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百二十五条 (Article 325) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-325. 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: 第三百二十五条 (Article 325)（株主総会に関する規定の準用） — address `art-325` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-325 - 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). 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三百二十五条（株主総会に関する規定の準用） — (Mutatis Mutandis Application of Provisions Regarding Shareholders Meetings) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-325 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-325 **第一項** 前款（第二百九十五条第一項及び第二項、第二百九十六条第一項及び第二項並びに第三百九条を除く。）の規定は、種類株主総会について準用する。この場合において、第二百九十七条第一項中「総株主」とあるのは「総株主（ある種類の株式の株主に限る。以下この款（第三百八条第一項を除く。）において同じ。）」と、「株主は」とあるのは「株主（ある種類の株式の株主に限る。以下この款（第三百十八条第四項及び第三百十九条第三項を除く。）において同じ。）は」と読み替えるものとする。 art-325/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-325/par-1 The provisions of the preceding Subsection (excluding Article 295, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2), Article 296, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2), and Article 309) apply mutatis mutandis to the general meeting of class shareholders. In these cases, in Article 297, paragraph (1),the term "all shareholders" is deemed to be replaced with "all shareholders (limited to the shareholders of a certain class of shares; hereinafter the same applies in this Subsection (excluding Article 308, paragraph (1)))", and the term "shareholders" is deemed to be replaced with "shareholders (limited to the shareholders of a certain class of shares; hereinafter the same applies in this Subsection (excluding Article 318, paragraph (4) and Article 319, paragraph (3)))". Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of the preceding Subsection (excluding Article 295, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2), Article 296, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2), and Article 309) apply mutatis mutandis to the general meeting of class shareholders. In these cases, in Article 297, paragraph (1),the term "all shareholders" is deemed to be replaced with "all shareholders (limited to the shareholders of a certain class of shares; hereinafter the same applies in this Subsection (excluding Article 308, paragraph (1)))", and the term "shareholders" is deemed to be replaced with "shareholders (limited to the shareholders of a certain class of shares; hereinafter the same applies in this Subsection (excluding Article 318, paragraph (4) and Article 319, paragraph (3))"." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4481/tb --- ## Cites - art-325/par-1: 第二百九十五条第一項 → 会社法 第二百九十五条第一項 (Article 295, paragraph (1)), art-295/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-295/par-1 - art-325/par-1: 第二項 → 会社法 第二百九十五条第二項 (Article 295, paragraph (2)), art-295/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-295/par-2 - art-325/par-1: 第二百九十六条第一項 → 会社法 第二百九十六条第一項 (Article 296, paragraph (1)), art-296/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-296/par-1 - art-325/par-1: 第二項 → 会社法 第二百九十六条第二項 (Article 296, paragraph (2)), art-296/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-296/par-2 - art-325/par-1: 第三百九条 → 会社法 第三百九条 (Article 309), art-309 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-309 - art-325/par-1: 第二百九十七条第一項 → 会社法 第二百九十七条第一項 (Article 297, paragraph (1)), art-297/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-297/par-1 - art-325/par-1: 第三百八条第一項 → 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 - art-325/par-1: 第三百十八条第四項 → 会社法 第三百十八条第四項 (Article 318, paragraph (4)), art-318/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-318/par-4 - art-325/par-1: 第三百十九条第三項 → 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 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第百二十六条第五項（株主に対する通知等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-126/par-5 - 会社法 第三百二十五条の五第一項（書面交付請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-325-5/par-1 - 会社法 第三百二十五条の七第一項（株主総会に関する規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-325-7/par-1 - 会社法 第三百四十八条第三項第三号（業務の執行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-348/par-3/item-3 - 会社法 第四百八十二条第三項第三号（業務の執行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-482/par-3/item-3 - 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八号（過料に処すべき行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-976/par-1/item-8 - 会社法 第九百七十六条第一項第十八号（過料に処すべき行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-976/par-1/item-18 - 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 - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-09-29 - 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 (会社法), Article 325, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4481/tb), 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