# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三十九条 (Article 39) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-39. 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: 第三十九条 (Article 39) — address `art-39` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-39 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-39 - 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. --- ### 第三十九条 art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-39 **第一項** 設立しようとする株式会社が取締役会設置会社である場合には、設立時取締役は、三人以上でなければならない。 art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-39/par-1 If a stock company to be incorporated is a company with board of directors, there must be three or more directors at incorporation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 設立しようとする株式会社が監査役会設置会社である場合には、設立時監査役は、三人以上でなければならない。 art-39/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-39/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-39/par-2 If a stock company to be incorporated is a company with board of company auditors, there must be three or more company auditors at incorporation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 設立しようとする株式会社が監査等委員会設置会社である場合には、設立時監査等委員である設立時取締役は、三人以上でなければならない。 art-39/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-39/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-39/par-3 If the stock company to be incorporated is a company with audit and supervisory committee, directors at incorporation who are audit and supervisory committee members at incorporation must be three persons or more. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第三百三十一条第一項（第三百三十五条第一項において準用する場合を含む。）、第三百三十三条第一項若しくは第三項又は第三百三十七条第一項若しくは第三項の規定により成立後の株式会社の取締役（監査等委員会設置会社にあっては、監査等委員である取締役又はそれ以外の取締役）、会計参与、監査役又は会計監査人となることができない者は、それぞれ設立時取締役（成立後の株式会社が監査等委員会設置会社である場合にあっては、設立時監査等委員である設立時取締役又はそれ以外の設立時取締役）、設立時会計参与、設立時監査役又は設立時会計監査人（以下この節において「設立時役員等」という。）となることができない。 art-39/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-39/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-39/par-4 A person who may not be a director (in cases of a company with audit and supervisory committee, a director who is an audit and supervisory committee member or other director), accounting advisor, company auditor or financial auditor of a stock company after formation pursuant to the provisions of Article 331, paragraph (1) (including the case where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 335, paragraph (1)), Article 333, paragraph (1) or (3), or Article 337, paragraph (1) or (3) may not become a director at incorporation (if a stock company after incorporation is a company with audit and supervisory committee, a director at incorporation who is an audit and supervisory committee member at incorporation or other director at incorporation), an accounting advisor at incorporation, a company auditor at incorporation, or a financial auditor at incorporation (hereinafter in this Section referred to as "officers, etc. at incorporation"), respectively. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 第三百三十一条の二の規定は、設立時取締役及び設立時監査役について準用する。 art-39/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-39/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-39/par-5 The provisions of Article 331-2 apply mutatis mutandis to directors at incorporation and company auditors at incorporation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-39/par-4: 第三百三十一条第一項 → 会社法 第三百三十一条第一項 (Article 331, paragraph (1)), art-331/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-331/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-331/par-1 - art-39/par-4: 第三百三十五条第一項 → 会社法 第三百三十五条第一項 (Article 335, paragraph (1)), art-335/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-335/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-335/par-1 - art-39/par-4: 第三百三十三条第一項 → 会社法 第三百三十三条第一項 (Article 333, paragraph (1)), art-333/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-333/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-333/par-1 - art-39/par-4: 第三項 → 会社法 第三百三十三条第三項 (Article 333, paragraph (3)), art-333/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-333/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-333/par-3 - art-39/par-4: 第三百三十七条第一項 → 会社法 第三百三十七条第一項 (Article 337, paragraph (1)), art-337/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-337/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-337/par-1 - art-39/par-4: 第三項 → 会社法 第三百三十七条第三項 (Article 337, paragraph (3)), art-337/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-337/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-337/par-3 - art-39/par-5: 第三百三十一条の二 → 会社法 第三百三十一条の二 (Article 331-2), art-331-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-331-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-331-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第二十五条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-25/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-25/par-1/item-2 - 会社法 第八百十四条第一項（株式会社の設立の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-814/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-814/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百三十九条の二十第一項（株式会社金融商品取引所の設立の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-139-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-139-20/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 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17