# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百四条 (Article 304) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-304. 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: 第三百四条 (Article 304) — address `art-304` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-304 - 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. --- ### 第三百四条 art-304 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-304 **第一項** 株主は、株主総会において、株主総会の目的である事項（当該株主が議決権を行使することができる事項に限る。次条第一項において同じ。）につき議案を提出することができる。ただし、当該議案が法令若しくは定款に違反する場合又は実質的に同一の議案につき株主総会において総株主（当該議案について議決権を行使することができない株主を除く。）の議決権の十分の一（これを下回る割合を定款で定めた場合にあっては、その割合）以上の賛成を得られなかった日から三年を経過していない場合は、この限りでない。 art-304/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-304/par-1 Shareholders may submit proposals at the shareholders meeting with respect to the matters that are the purpose of the shareholders meeting (limited to the matters on which relevant shareholders may vote; the same applies in paragraph (1) of the following Article); provided, however, that this does not apply if relevant proposals are in violation of the laws or the articles of incorporation, or if three years have not elapsed from the day on which, with respect to the proposal which is essentially identical to relevant proposal, affirmative votes not less than one tenths (or, if any proportion less than that is provided for in the articles of incorporation, the proportion) of the votes of all shareholders (excluding the shareholders who may not exercise their voting rights on the proposal) were not obtained. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-304/par-1: 次条第一項 → 会社法 第三百五条第一項 (Article 305, paragraph (1)), art-305/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-305/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第九百六十八条第一項第二号（株主等の権利の行使に関する贈収賄罪） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-968/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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 229 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17