# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六百七十八条 (Article 678) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-678. 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: 第六百七十八条 (Article 678)（募集社債の割当て） — address `art-678` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-678 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-678 - 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. --- ### 第六百七十八条（募集社債の割当て） — (Allotment of Bonds for Subscription) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-678 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-678 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-678 **第一項** 会社は、申込者の中から募集社債の割当てを受ける者を定め、かつ、その者に割り当てる募集社債の金額及び金額ごとの数を定めなければならない。この場合において、会社は、当該申込者に割り当てる募集社債の金額ごとの数を、前条第二項第二号の数よりも減少することができる。 art-678/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-678/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-678/par-1 A company must specify the persons to whom bonds for subscription will be allotted from among the applicants, and the amount, and the number for each amount, of the bonds for subscription to be allotted to those persons. In these cases, the company may reduce the number for each amount of bonds for subscription that are to be allotted to relevant applicants below the number under item (ii), paragraph (2) of the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 会社は、第六百七十六条第十号の期日の前日までに、申込者に対し、当該申込者に割り当てる募集社債の金額及び金額ごとの数を通知しなければならない。 art-678/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-678/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-678/par-2 The company must notify the applicants, no later than the day immediately preceding the date referred to in Article 676, item (x) of the amount, and the number for each amount, of the bonds for subscription that will be allotted to the applicant. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-678/par-1: 前条第二項第二号 → 会社法 第六百七十七条第二項第二号 (Article 677, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-677/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-677/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-677/par-2/item-2 - art-678/par-2: 第六百七十六条第十号 → 会社法 第六百七十六条第一項第十号 (Article 676, paragraph (1), item (x)), art-676/par-1/item-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-676/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-676/par-1/item-10 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第二百四十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-248/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-248/par-1 - 会社法 第六百七十九条第一項（募集社債の申込み及び割当てに関する特則） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-679/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-679/par-1 - 医療法 第五十四条の七第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-54-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-7/par-1 --- ## 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