# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六百八十四条 (Article 684) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684. 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: 第六百八十四条 (Article 684)（社債原簿の備置き及び閲覧等） — address `art-684` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684 - 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. --- ### 第六百八十四条（社債原簿の備置き及び閲覧等） — (Keeping and Making Available for Inspection of the Bond Register) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-684 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684 **第一項** 社債発行会社は、社債原簿をその本店（社債原簿管理人がある場合にあっては、その営業所）に備え置かなければならない。 art-684/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684/par-1 A bond-issuing company must keep the bond register at its head office (or, if it has a bond register administrator, at its business office). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 社債権者その他の法務省令で定める者は、社債発行会社の営業時間内は、いつでも、次に掲げる請求をすることができる。この場合においては、当該請求の理由を明らかにしてしなければならない。 art-684/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684/par-2 The bondholders and other persons prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order may make the following requests at any time during the business hours of the bond-issuing company. In these cases, the reasons for relevant request must be disclosed: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 社債原簿が書面をもって作成されているときは、当該書面の閲覧又は謄写の請求 art-684/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684/par-2/item-1 if the bond register is prepared in writing, the request for the inspection or copying of the document; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 社債原簿が電磁的記録をもって作成されているときは、当該電磁的記録に記録された事項を法務省令で定める方法により表示したものの閲覧又は謄写の請求 art-684/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684/par-2/item-2 if the bond register has been prepared as an electronic or magnetic record, a request to inspect or copy anything that is used in a manner prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order to display the information recorded in that electronic or magnetic record. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 社債発行会社は、前項の請求があったときは、次のいずれかに該当する場合を除き、これを拒むことができない。 art-684/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684/par-3 If the request referred to in the preceding paragraph is made, the bond-issuing company may not refuse the request unless: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当該請求を行う者がその権利の確保又は行使に関する調査以外の目的で請求を行ったとき。 art-684/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684/par-3/item-1 the person who made the request for other purposes than the research on securing or exercising the person's rights; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 当該請求を行う者が社債原簿の閲覧又は謄写によって知り得た事実を利益を得て第三者に通報するため請求を行ったとき。 art-684/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684/par-3/item-2 the person who made the request in order to notify the fact learned by inspecting or copying the bond register to third parties for profit; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 当該請求を行う者が、過去二年以内において、社債原簿の閲覧又は謄写によって知り得た事実を利益を得て第三者に通報したことがあるものであるとき。 art-684/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684/par-3/item-3 the person who makes the request is a person who has notified the facts learned by inspecting or copying the bond register, to third parties for profit in the immediately preceding two years. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 社債発行会社が株式会社である場合には、当該社債発行会社の親会社社員は、その権利を行使するため必要があるときは、裁判所の許可を得て、当該社債発行会社の社債原簿について第二項各号に掲げる請求をすることができる。この場合においては、当該請求の理由を明らかにしてしなければならない。 art-684/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684/par-4 If a bond-issuing company is a stock company, if it is necessary for the purpose of exercising the rights of a member of the parent company of relevant bond-issuing company, the relevant member of the parent company may, with the permission of the court, make the request in each item of paragraph (2) with respect to the bond register of the bond-issuing company. In these cases, the reasons of relevant request must be disclosed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 前項の親会社社員について第三項各号のいずれかに規定する事由があるときは、裁判所は、前項の許可をすることができない。 art-684/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684/par-5 The court may not grant the permission in the preceding paragraph if grounds provided for in any item of paragraph (3) apply to the member of the parent company in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-684/par-3: 前項 → 会社法 第六百八十四条第二項 (Article 684, paragraph (2)), art-684/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684/par-2 - art-684/par-4: 第二項 → 会社法 第六百八十四条第二項 (Article 684, paragraph (2)), art-684/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684/par-2 - art-684/par-5: 前項 → 会社法 第六百八十四条第四項 (Article 684, paragraph (4)), art-684/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684/par-4 - art-684/par-5: 第三項 → 会社法 第六百八十四条第三項 (Article 684, paragraph (3)), art-684/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684/par-3 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第六百八十四条第三項（社債原簿の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684/par-3 - 会社法 第六百八十四条第四項（社債原簿の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684/par-4 - 会社法 第六百八十四条第五項（社債原簿の備置き及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-684/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-684/par-5 - 会社法 第九百七十六条第一項第八号（過料に処すべき行為） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-976/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-976/par-1/item-8 - 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 - 医療法 第九十一条第一項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-91/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-91/par-1/item-6 --- ## 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