# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百七十条 (Article 370) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-370. 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: 第三百七十条 (Article 370)（取締役会の決議の省略） — address `art-370` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-370 - 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. --- ### 第三百七十条（取締役会の決議の省略） — (Omission of Resolution at Board of Directors Meeting) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-370 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-370 **第一項** 取締役会設置会社は、取締役が取締役会の決議の目的である事項について提案をした場合において、当該提案につき取締役（当該事項について議決に加わることができるものに限る。）の全員が書面又は電磁的記録により同意の意思表示をしたとき（監査役設置会社にあっては、監査役が当該提案について異議を述べたときを除く。）は、当該提案を可決する旨の取締役会の決議があったものとみなす旨を定款で定めることができる。 art-370/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-370/par-1 A company with board of directors may provide in the articles of incorporation to the effect that, if directors submit a proposal with respect to a matter which is the purpose of the resolution at a board of directors meeting, if all directors (limited to those who are entitled to participate in votes with respect to these matter) manifest their intention to agree to the proposal in writing or in an electronic or magnetic record (except for the case, at a company with company auditor, where a company auditor states objections to that proposal), it is deemed that the resolution to approve that proposal has been passed at the board of directors meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百七十一条第一項（議事録等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-371/par-1 - 会社法 第三百七十三条第四項（特別取締役による取締役会の決議） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-373/par-4 - 会社法 第四百九十条第五項（清算人会の運営） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-490/par-5 --- ## 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