Representative Executive Officers Article 420 Board of directors must appoint representative executive officers from among the executive officers. In such cases, if there is only one executive officer, that person is to be regarded as having been appointed as the representative executive officer.
代表執行役は、いつでも、取締役会の決議によって解職することができる。
A representative executive officer may be removed at any time by a resolution at the board of directors meeting.
The provisions of Article 349, paragraphs (4) and (5) apply mutatis mutandis to representative executive officers, the provisions of Article 352 apply mutatis mutandis to a person appointed by a provisional disposition order provided for in Article 56 of the Civil Provisional Remedies Act to perform the duties of executive officers or representative executive officers on behalf of the same, and the provisions of Article 401, paragraphs (2) through (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the cases where there are no representative executive officers in office, or where there is a vacancy which results in a shortfall in the number of executive officers prescribed in the articles of incorporation, respectively.
