# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第百九十六条 (Article 196) - 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: 第百九十六条 (Article 196)（株主に対する通知の省略） — address `art-196` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-196 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-196 - 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. --- ### 第百九十六条（株主に対する通知の省略） — (Omission of Notices to Shareholders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-196 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-196 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-196 **第一項** 株式会社が株主に対してする通知又は催告が五年以上継続して到達しない場合には、株式会社は、当該株主に対する通知又は催告をすることを要しない。 art-196/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-196/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-196/par-1 If notices or demands from a stock company do not reach a shareholder for five consecutive years or more, the stock company is no longer required to give notices or issue demands to relevant shareholder. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合には、同項の株主に対する株式会社の義務の履行を行う場所は、株式会社の住所地とする。 art-196/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-196/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-196/par-2 In the cases provided for in the preceding paragraph, the address of the stock company is to be the place where the obligation of the stock company with regard to the shareholder under that paragraph is performed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の規定は、登録株式質権者について準用する。 art-196/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-196/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-196/par-3 The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to registered pledgees of shares. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-196/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第百九十六条第一項 (Article 196, paragraph (1)), art-196/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-196/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-196/par-1 - art-196/par-3: 前二項 → 会社法 第百九十六条第一項 (Article 196, paragraph (1)), art-196/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-196/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-196/par-1 - art-196/par-3: 前二項 → 会社法 第百九十六条第二項 (Article 196, paragraph (2)), art-196/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-196/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-196/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第百九十六条第二項（株主に対する通知の省略） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-196/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-196/par-2 - 会社法 第百九十六条第三項（株主に対する通知の省略） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-196/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-196/par-3 - 会社法 第百九十七条第一項第一号（株式の競売） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-197/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-197/par-1/item-1 - 会社法 第百九十七条第五項第一号（株式の競売） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-197/par-5/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-197/par-5/item-1 - 会社法 第百九十八条第四項（利害関係人の異議） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-198/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-198/par-4 --- ## 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