# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百九十二条 (Article 392) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-392. 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: 第三百九十二条 (Article 392)（招集手続） — address `art-392` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-392 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-392 - 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. --- ### 第三百九十二条（招集手続） — (Calling Procedures) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-392 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-392 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-392 **第一項** 監査役会を招集するには、監査役は、監査役会の日の一週間（これを下回る期間を定款で定めた場合にあっては、その期間）前までに、各監査役に対してその通知を発しなければならない。 art-392/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-392/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-392/par-1 To call a board of company auditors meeting, a company auditor must dispatch the notice thereof to each company auditor no later than one week (or if a shorter period of time is prescribed in the articles of incorporation, that shorter period of time) prior to the day of the board of company auditors meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、監査役会は、監査役の全員の同意があるときは、招集の手続を経ることなく開催することができる。 art-392/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-392/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-392/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the board of company auditors meeting may be held without the procedures of calling if the consent of all company auditors is obtained. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-392/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第三百九十二条第一項 (Article 392, paragraph (1)), art-392/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-392/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-392/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百九十二条第二項（招集手続） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-392/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-392/par-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 224 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17