# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第七百七十六条 (Article 776) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-776. 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: 第七百七十六条 (Article 776)（株式会社の組織変更計画の承認等） — address `art-776` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-776 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-776 - 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. --- ### 第七百七十六条（株式会社の組織変更計画の承認等） — (Approval of the Entity Conversion Plan of a Stock Company) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-776 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-776 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-776 **第一項** 組織変更をする株式会社は、効力発生日の前日までに、組織変更計画について当該株式会社の総株主の同意を得なければならない。 art-776/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-776/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-776/par-1 A stock company effecting entity conversion must obtain the consent of all shareholders of the stock company with regard to the entity conversion plan by the day immediately preceding the effective day. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 組織変更をする株式会社は、効力発生日の二十日前までに、その登録株式質権者及び登録新株予約権質権者に対し、組織変更をする旨を通知しなければならない。 art-776/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-776/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-776/par-2 A stock company effecting entity conversion must notify its registered pledgees of shares and registered pledgees of share options thereof that it will effect entity conversion, by twenty days prior to the effective day. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の規定による通知は、公告をもってこれに代えることができる。 art-776/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-776/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-776/par-3 A public notice may be substituted for the notice under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-776/par-3: 前項 → 会社法 第七百七十六条第二項 (Article 776, paragraph (2)), art-776/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-776/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-776/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第七百七十六条第三項（株式会社の組織変更計画の承認等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-776/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-776/par-3 --- ## 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Companies Act — Ministry of Justice translation (part 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4482/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