# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第四百十一条 (Article 411) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-411. 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: 第四百十一条 (Article 411)（招集手続等） — address `art-411` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-411 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-411 - 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. --- ### 第四百十一条（招集手続等） — (Calling Procedures) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-411 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-411 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-411 **第一項** 指名委員会等を招集するには、その委員は、指名委員会等の日の一週間（これを下回る期間を取締役会で定めた場合にあっては、その期間）前までに、当該指名委員会等の各委員に対してその通知を発しなければならない。 art-411/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-411/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-411/par-1 To call a nominating committee, etc. meeting, a committee member of that nominating committee, etc., must dispatch the notice thereof to each committee member of relevant nominating committee, etc. no later than one week (or if a shorter period of time is prescribed by the board of directors, the shorter period of time) prior to the day of the nominating committee, etc. meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定にかかわらず、指名委員会等は、当該指名委員会等の委員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-411/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-411/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-411/par-2 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the nominating committee, etc. meeting may be held without the procedures of calling if the consent of all committee members of relevant nominating committee, etc. is obtained. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 執行役等は、指名委員会等の要求があったときは、当該指名委員会等に出席し、当該指名委員会等が求めた事項について説明をしなければならない。 art-411/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-411/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-411/par-3 If requested by the nominating committee, etc., executive officers, etc., must attend relevant nominating committee, etc. meeting and provide explanations on the matters requested by relevant nominating committee, etc. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-411/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第四百十一条第一項 (Article 411, paragraph (1)), art-411/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-411/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-411/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第四百十一条第二項（招集手続等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-411/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-411/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 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17