# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百四十四条 (Article 344) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-344. 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: 第三百四十四条 (Article 344)（会計監査人の選任等に関する議案の内容の決定） — address `art-344` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-344 - 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. --- ### 第三百四十四条（会計監査人の選任等に関する議案の内容の決定） — (Determination of Content of Proposal on the Election of a Financial Auditor) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-344 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-344 **第一項** 監査役設置会社においては、株主総会に提出する会計監査人の選任及び解任並びに会計監査人を再任しないことに関する議案の内容は、監査役が決定する。 art-344/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-344/par-1 At a company with company auditor, content of proposals on election and dismissal of a financial auditor and the refusal to reelect the financial auditor to be submitted to the shareholders meeting is determined by the company auditor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 監査役が二人以上ある場合における前項の規定の適用については、同項中「監査役が」とあるのは、「監査役の過半数をもって」とする。 art-344/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-344/par-2 With regard to the application of provisions of the preceding paragraph to cases where there are two or more company auditors, the phrase "by the company auditor" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "by a majority of company auditors". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 監査役会設置会社における第一項の規定の適用については、同項中「監査役」とあるのは、「監査役会」とする。 art-344/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-344/par-3 For the purpose of the application of paragraph (1) to a company with board of company auditors, the term "company auditor" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with as "board of company auditors". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-344/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第三百四十四条第一項 (Article 344, paragraph (1)), art-344/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-344/par-1 - art-344/par-3: 第一項 → 会社法 第三百四十四条第一項 (Article 344, paragraph (1)), art-344/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-344/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百四十四条第二項（会計監査人の選任等に関する議案の内容の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-344/par-2 - 会社法 第三百四十四条第三項（会計監査人の選任等に関する議案の内容の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-344/par-3 - 会社法 附則第十五条第一項（会計監査人の選任等に関する議案の内容の決定に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/suppl-4261-90/art-15/par-1 --- ## 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