# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百六十八条 (Article 368) - 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: 第三百六十八条 (Article 368)（招集手続） — address `art-368` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-368 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-368 - 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. --- ### 第三百六十八条（招集手続） — (Calling Procedures) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-368 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-368 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-368 **第一項** 取締役会を招集する者は、取締役会の日の一週間（これを下回る期間を定款で定めた場合にあっては、その期間）前までに、各取締役（監査役設置会社にあっては、各取締役及び各監査役）に対してその通知を発しなければならない。 art-368/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-368/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-368/par-1 A person who calls a board of directors meeting must dispatch the notice thereof to each director (or, for a company with company auditor, to each director and each company auditor) no later than one week (or if a shorter period of time is prescribed in the articles of incorporation, that period of time) prior to the day of the board of directors meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、取締役会は、取締役（監査役設置会社にあっては、取締役及び監査役）の全員の同意があるときは、招集の手続を経ることなく開催することができる。 art-368/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-368/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-368/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the board of directors meeting may be held without the procedures of calling if the consent of all directors (or, for a company with company auditor, directors and company auditors) is obtained. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-368/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第三百六十八条第一項 (Article 368, paragraph (1)), art-368/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-368/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-368/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百六十八条第二項（招集手続） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-368/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-368/par-2 - 会社法 第三百七十三条第二項（特別取締役による取締役会の決議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-373/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-373/par-2 - 会社法 第三百七十六条第三項（取締役会への出席） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-376/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-376/par-3 - 会社法 第四百九十条第四項（清算人会の運営） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-490/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-490/par-4 --- ## 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