# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百四十三条 (Article 343) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-343. 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: 第三百四十三条 (Article 343)（監査役の選任に関する監査役の同意等） — address `art-343` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-343 - 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. --- ### 第三百四十三条（監査役の選任に関する監査役の同意等） — (Consent of Company Auditors to Election of Company Auditors) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-343 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-343 **第一項** 取締役は、監査役がある場合において、監査役の選任に関する議案を株主総会に提出するには、監査役（監査役が二人以上ある場合にあっては、その過半数）の同意を得なければならない。 art-343/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-343/par-1 If a company auditor is in office, directors must obtain the consent of the company auditor (or, if there are two or more company auditors, the majority of the company auditors) in order to submit a proposal for the election of a company auditor to the shareholders meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 監査役は、取締役に対し、監査役の選任を株主総会の目的とすること又は監査役の選任に関する議案を株主総会に提出することを請求することができる。 art-343/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-343/par-2 The company auditor may request the directors that they include the election of the company auditor in the purpose of the shareholders meeting, or they submit a proposal regarding the election of company auditor to the shareholders meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 監査役会設置会社における前二項の規定の適用については、第一項中「監査役（監査役が二人以上ある場合にあっては、その過半数）」とあるのは「監査役会」と、前項中「監査役は」とあるのは「監査役会は」とする。 art-343/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-343/par-3 For the purpose of the application of the preceding two paragraphs to a company with board of company auditors, the phrase "company auditor (or, if there are two or more company auditors, the majority of the company auditors)" in paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with as "board of company auditors", and the term "company auditor may" in the preceding paragraph is deemed to be replaced with as "board of company auditors may". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第三百四十一条の規定は、監査役の解任の決議については、適用しない。 art-343/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-343/par-4 The provisions of Article 341 do not apply to resolutions for the dismissal of company auditors. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-343/par-3: 前二項 → 会社法 第三百四十三条第一項 (Article 343, paragraph (1)), art-343/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-343/par-1 - art-343/par-3: 前二項 → 会社法 第三百四十三条第二項 (Article 343, paragraph (2)), art-343/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-343/par-2 - art-343/par-4: 第三百四十一条 → 会社法 第三百四十一条 (Article 341), art-341 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-341 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百四十三条第三項（監査役の選任に関する監査役の同意等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-343/par-3 - 会社法 第三百四十七条第二項（種類株主総会における取締役又は監査役の選任等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-347/par-2 - 会社法 第四百九十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-491/par-1 - 会社法 第九百七十六条第一項第二十一号（過料に処すべき行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-976/par-1/item-21 --- ## 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