# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第百十五条 (Article 115) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-115. 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: 第百十五条 (Article 115)（議決権制限株式の発行数） — address `art-115` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-115 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-115 - 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. --- ### 第百十五条（議決権制限株式の発行数） — (Number of Issued Shares with Restricted Voting Right) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-115 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-115 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-115 **第一項** 種類株式発行会社が公開会社である場合において、株主総会において議決権を行使することができる事項について制限のある種類の株式（以下この条において「議決権制限株式」という。）の数が発行済株式の総数の二分の一を超えるに至ったときは、株式会社は、直ちに、議決権制限株式の数を発行済株式の総数の二分の一以下にするための必要な措置をとらなければならない。 art-115/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-115/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-115/par-1 If a company with class shares is a public company, if the number of the shares of a certain class with restriction in relation to matters on which voting right can be exercised at a shareholders meeting (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "shares with restricted voting right") has exceeded one half of the total number of the issued shares, the stock company must immediately take measures necessary to reduce the number of the shares with restricted voting right below one half of the total number of the issued shares. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-115/par-1: この条 → 会社法 第百十五条 (Article 115), art-115 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-115 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-115 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第百十五条第一項（議決権制限株式の発行数） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-115/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-115/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