# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六百九十八条 (Article 698) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-698. 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: 第六百九十八条 (Article 698)（記名式と無記名式との間の転換） — address `art-698` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-698 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-698 - 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. --- ### 第六百九十八条（記名式と無記名式との間の転換） — (Conversions between Registered Bonds and Bearer Bonds) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-698 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-698 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-698 **第一項** 社債券が発行されている社債の社債権者は、第六百七十六条第七号に掲げる事項についての定めによりすることができないこととされている場合を除き、いつでも、その記名式の社債券を無記名式とし、又はその無記名式の社債券を記名式とすることを請求することができる。 art-698/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-698/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-698/par-1 Holders of bonds for which bond certificates are issued may demand at any time that the bond-issuing company convert their registered bond certificates into bearer bond certificates, or convert their bearer bond certificates into registered bond certificates, except if there is an arrangement under provisions with respect to the matters set forth in Article 676, item (vii) that relevant conversion is not possible. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-698/par-1: 第六百七十六条第七号 → 会社法 第六百七十六条第一項第七号 (Article 676, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-676/par-1/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-676/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-676/par-1/item-7 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第六百七十六条第一項第七号（募集社債に関する事項の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-676/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-676/par-1/item-7 - 医療法 第五十四条の三第一項第八号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-54-3/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-3/par-1/item-8 - 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