If a foreign bank branch office falls under one of the following items, it must liquidate all of its property in Japan:
外国銀行支店は、次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、日本にある財産の全部について清算をしなければならない。
the license referred to in Article 4, paragraph (1) granted by the Prime Minister for the foreign bank with which the foreign bank branch is affiliated is revoked pursuant to the provisions of Article 27 or Article 28; or
the license referred to in Article 4, paragraph (1) granted by the Prime Minister for the foreign bank with which the foreign bank branch office is affiliated ceases to be effective pursuant to the provisions of Article 41, item (i) or the preceding Article.
If a foreign bank branch office is liquidated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the court appoints a liquidator at the request of an interested party or the Prime Minister, or by its authority. The same applies to the dismissal of that liquidator.
The provisions of Article 476 (Capacity of Liquidating Stock Companies), Part II, Chapter IX, Section 1, Subsection 2 (Structures for Liquidating Stock Companies), Article 492 (Preparation of Inventory of Property), Subsection 4 of that Section (Performance of Obligations), Article 508 (Retention of Accounting Materials), Section 2 of that Chapter (excluding Article 510, Article 511, and Article 514) (Special Liquidations), Part VII, Chapter III, Section 1 (General Provisions) and Section 3 (Special Provisions on the Procedures of Special Liquidation), and Article 938, paragraphs (1) through (5) (Commissioning of Registration by a Juridical Decision Concerning Special Liquidation) of the Companies Act apply mutatis mutandis to the liquidation of the property of a foreign bank branch office in Japan pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), other than property to which those provisions cannot be applied due to its nature.
会社法第四百七十六条(清算株式会社の能力)、第二編第九章第一節第二款(清算株式会社の機関)、第四百九十二条(財産目録等の作成等)、同節第四款(債務の弁済等)、第五百八条(帳簿資料の保存)、同章第二節(第五百十条、第五百十一条及び第五百十四条を除く。)(特別清算)、第七編第三章第一節(総則)及び第三節(特別清算の手続に関する特則)並びに第九百三十八条第一項から第五項まで(特別清算に関する裁判による登記の嘱託)の規定は、その性質上許されないものを除き、第一項の規定による日本にある外国銀行支店の財産についての清算について準用する。
The provisions of Article 820 (Resignation of Representatives in Japan Whose Addresses are in Japan) of the Companies Act do not apply to a foreign bank that has obtained the license referred to in Article 4, paragraph (1).
In applying the provisions of Article 822, paragraph (1) (Liquidation of a Foreign Company's Assets in Japan) of the Companies Act to a foreign bank branch office, the term "interested persons" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "an interested person or the Prime Minister".
外国銀行支店に対する会社法第八百二十二条第一項(日本にある外国会社の財産についての清算)の規定の適用については、同項中「利害関係人」とあるのは、「利害関係人若しくは内閣総理大臣」とする。