# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第百八十一条 (Article 181) - 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: 第百八十一条 (Article 181)（株主に対する通知等） — address `art-181` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-181 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-181 - 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. --- ### 第百八十一条（株主に対する通知等） — (Notices to Shareholders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-181 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-181 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-181 **第一項** 株式会社は、効力発生日の二週間前までに、株主（種類株式発行会社にあっては、前条第二項第三号の種類の種類株主。以下この款において同じ。）及びその登録株式質権者に対し、同項各号に掲げる事項を通知しなければならない。 art-181/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-181/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-181/par-1 No later than two weeks prior to the effective day, the stock company must notify the shareholders (or, for a company with class shares , referring to the class shareholders of the classes of shares under paragraph (2), item (iii) of the preceding Article; hereinafter the same applies in this Subsection) and the registered pledgees of the shares thereof of the matters set forth in each item of that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による通知は、公告をもってこれに代えることができる。 art-181/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-181/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-181/par-2 A public notice may be substituted for the notice under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-181/par-1: 前条第二項第三号 → 会社法 第百八十条第二項第三号 (Article 180, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-180/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-180/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-180/par-2/item-3 - art-181/par-1: 同項 → 会社法 第百八十条第二項 (Article 180, paragraph (2)), art-180/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-180/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-180/par-2 - art-181/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第百八十一条第一項 (Article 181, paragraph (1)), art-181/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-181/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-181/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第百八十一条第二項（株主に対する通知等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-181/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-181/par-2 - 会社法 第百八十二条の二第一項第二号（株式の併合に関する事項に関する書面等の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-182-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-182-2/par-1/item-2 - 会社法 第百八十二条の四第三項（反対株主の株式買取請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-182-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-182-4/par-3 --- ## 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