# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百八十四条 (Article 384) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-384. 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: 第三百八十四条 (Article 384)（株主総会に対する報告義務） — address `art-384` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-384 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-384 - 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. --- ### 第三百八十四条（株主総会に対する報告義務） — (Duty to Report to Shareholders Meeting) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-384 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-384 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-384 **第一項** 監査役は、取締役が株主総会に提出しようとする議案、書類その他法務省令で定めるものを調査しなければならない。この場合において、法令若しくは定款に違反し、又は著しく不当な事項があると認めるときは、その調査の結果を株主総会に報告しなければならない。 art-384/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-384/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-384/par-1 Company auditors must investigate proposals, documents and other items prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order that directors intend to submit to the shareholders meeting. In these cases, if company auditors find that there is a violation of laws and regulations or the articles of incorporation or a grossly improper fact, they must report the results of the investigation to a shareholders meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百八十九条第七項（定款の定めによる監査範囲の限定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-389/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-389/par-7 --- ## 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