# 金融商品取引法 / Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — 第八十八条の十六 (Article 88-16) - Law: 金融商品取引法 (Financial Instruments and Exchange Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二十五号 - English title "Financial Instruments and Exchange 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: 第八十八条の十六 (Article 88-16)（総会の招集） — address `art-88-16` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-16 - 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. --- ### 第八十八条の十六（総会の招集） — (Convocation of a General Meeting) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-88-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-16 **第一項** 総会の招集の通知は、会日より少なくとも五日前に、その会議の目的である事項を示し、定款で定めた方法に従つてしなければならない。 art-88-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-16/par-1 A convocation notice for a general meeting must specify the purpose of the general meeting, and must be issued as specified by the articles of incorporation at least five days prior to the day of the meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 金融商品取引法 第八十八条の十八第一項（総会の決議事項） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-88-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-88-18/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百二条の六第一項（準用規定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-102-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-102-6/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第百五十四条の二第一項（内閣府令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-154-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-154-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 金融商品取引法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000025/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-10-22 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4633/tb), retrieved 2026-10-22 - This site's parser, version 212 — 金融商品取引法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-22