# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第二百九十条 (Article 290) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-290. 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: 第二百九十条 (Article 290)（記名式と無記名式との間の転換） — address `art-290` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-290 - e-Gov law ID: 417AC0000000086 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第二百九十条（記名式と無記名式との間の転換） — (Conversion between Registered Share Options and Bearer Share Options) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-290 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-290 **第一項** 証券発行新株予約権の新株予約権者は、第二百三十六条第一項第十一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、その記名式の新株予約権証券を無記名式とし、又はその無記名式の新株予約権証券を記名式とすることを請求することができる。 art-290/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-290/par-1 Holders of share options for which certificates are issued may demand at any time that the stock company convert their registered share option certificates into bearer share option certificates, or convert their bearer share option certificates into registered share option certificates, except if there is an arrangement that relevant conversion is not possible under the provisions with respect to the matters set forth in Article 236, paragraph (1), item (xi). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-290/par-1: 第二百三十六条第一項第十一号 → 会社法 第二百三十六条第一項第十一号 (Article 236, paragraph (1), item (xi)), art-236/par-1/item-11 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-236/par-1/item-11 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第二百三十六条第一項第十一号（新株予約権の内容） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-236/par-1/item-11 --- ## 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 224 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17