# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六百九十条 (Article 690) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-690. 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: 第六百九十条 (Article 690)（社債権者の請求によらない社債原簿記載事項の記載又は記録） — address `art-690` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-690 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-690 - 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. --- ### 第六百九十条（社債権者の請求によらない社債原簿記載事項の記載又は記録） — (Entering or Recording Information Required to Be Entered in the Bond Register without a Request from Bondholders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-690 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-690 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-690 **第一項** 社債発行会社は、次の各号に掲げる場合には、当該各号の社債の社債権者に係る社債原簿記載事項を社債原簿に記載し、又は記録しなければならない。 art-690/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-690/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-690/par-1 In a case as provided in one of the following items, a bond-issuing company must enter or record in the bond register the information that is required to be entered in the bond register with respect to the bondholder referred to in that item: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当該社債発行会社の社債を取得した場合 art-690/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-690/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-690/par-1/item-1 if the bondholders have acquired the bonds of relevant bond-issuing company; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 当該社債発行会社が有する自己の社債を処分した場合 art-690/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-690/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-690/par-1/item-2 if the bondholders have disposed of own bonds held by the bond-issuing company. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、無記名社債については、適用しない。 art-690/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-690/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-690/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply to any bearer bond. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-690/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第六百九十条第一項 (Article 690, paragraph (1)), art-690/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-690/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-690/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第六百九十条第二項（社債権者の請求によらない社債原簿記載事項の記載又は記録） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-690/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-690/par-2 - 会社法 第六百九十五条の二第三項（信託財産に属する社債についての対抗要件等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-695-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-695-2/par-3 - 医療法 第五十四条の七第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-54-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-7/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