# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第百九十五条 (Article 195) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-195. 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: 第百九十五条 (Article 195) — address `art-195` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-195 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-195 - 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. --- ### 第百九十五条 art-195 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-195 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-195 **第一項** 株式会社は、第四百六十六条の規定にかかわらず、取締役の決定（取締役会設置会社にあっては、取締役会の決議）によって、定款を変更して単元株式数を減少し、又は単元株式数についての定款の定めを廃止することができる。 art-195/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-195/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-195/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 466, a stock company may decrease the size of the share unit or abolish the provisions of the articles of incorporation with respect to the share unit by effecting an amendment to the articles of incorporation by decision of the directors (or a resolution at a board of directors meeting for a company with board of directors). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により定款の変更をした場合には、株式会社は、当該定款の変更の効力が生じた日以後遅滞なく、その株主（種類株式発行会社にあっては、同項の規定により単元株式数を変更した種類の種類株主）に対し、当該定款の変更をした旨を通知しなければならない。 art-195/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-195/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-195/par-2 If an amendment is made in the articles of incorporation pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the stock company must, without delay after the day of the effectuation of relevant amendment to the articles of incorporation, notify its shareholders (or, for a company with class shares , its class shareholders of the classes for which the share unit has been changed pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph) to the effect that relevant amendment to the articles of incorporation has been made. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 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-195/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-195/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-195/par-3 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-195/par-1: 第四百六十六条 → 会社法 第四百六十六条 (Article 466), art-466 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-466 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-466 - art-195/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第百九十五条第一項 (Article 195, paragraph (1)), art-195/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-195/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-195/par-1 - art-195/par-3: 前項 → 会社法 第百九十五条第二項 (Article 195, paragraph (2)), art-195/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-195/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-195/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第百九十五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-195/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-195/par-2 - 会社法 第百九十五条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-195/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-195/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 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17