When a foreign company specifies its representative in Japan for the first time pursuant to the provisions of Article 817, paragraph (1), registration of the foreign company must be completed at the locations specified in the following items for the categories of cases set forth respectively in those items, within three weeks:
if no business office is established in Japan, the address of its representative in Japan (limited to those whose address is in Japan; hereinafter the same applies in this Section); or
日本に営業所を設けていない場合 日本における代表者（日本に住所を有するものに限る。以下この節において同じ。）の住所地
if a business office is established in Japan, the location of relevant business office.
日本に営業所を設けた場合 当該営業所の所在地
Upon the registration of a foreign company, the matters set forth in the items of Article 911, paragraph (3) or in the items of Articles 912 through 914 must be registered and also the following matters must be registered, in accordance with the same kind of company or the most similar kind of company in Japan:
外国会社の登記においては、日本における同種の会社又は最も類似する会社の種類に従い、第九百十一条第三項各号又は第九百十二条から第九百十四条までの各号に掲げる事項を登記するほか、次に掲げる事項を登記しなければならない。
the law governing the incorporation of the foreign company;
外国会社の設立の準拠法
the name and address of its representative in Japan;
日本における代表者の氏名及び住所
in the cases prescribed in the preceding item, if the foreign company intends to take the measure prescribed in Article 819, paragraph (3), the matters prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order which are necessary for making the information contained in what is equivalent to the balance sheet provided for in paragraph (1) of that Article available to the general public;
if there are provisions with regard to the method of public notice under the provisions of Article 939, paragraph (2), the provisions;
第九百三十九条第二項の規定による公告方法についての定めがあるときは、その定め
if the provisions referred to in the preceding item provide that electronic public notice is to be the method of public notice, the following matters:
the matters prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order which are necessary for making the information to be publicly notified through electronic public notice available to the general public; and
電子公告により公告すべき内容である情報について不特定多数の者がその提供を受けるために必要な事項であって法務省令で定めるもの
if there are provisions under the provisions of the second sentence of Article 939, paragraph (3), the provisions; and
第九百三十九条第三項後段の規定による定めがあるときは、その定め
if there are no provisions referred to in item (v), a statement to the effect that publication in Official Gazette is to be the method of public notice pursuant to the provisions of Article 939, paragraph (4).
第五号の定めがないときは、第九百三十九条第四項の規定により官報に掲載する方法を公告方法とする旨
With regard to application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph concerning a business office established in Japan by a foreign company, relevant business office is deemed to be the branch office prescribed in Article 911, paragraph (3), item (iii), Article 912, item (iii), Article 913, item (iii) or Article 914, item (iii).
The provisions of Article 915 and Articles 918 through 929 apply mutatis mutandis to foreign companies. In these cases, the term "two weeks" in these provisions is deemed to be replaced with "three weeks" and the term "location of the head office" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with " address of its representative in Japan (limited to those whose address is in Japan) (or, for a foreign company that has established a business office in Japan, the location of relevant business office)".
第九百十五条及び第九百十八条から第九百二十九条までの規定は、外国会社について準用する。この場合において、これらの規定中「二週間」とあるのは「三週間」と、「本店の所在地」とあるのは「日本における代表者（日本に住所を有するものに限る。）の住所地（日本に営業所を設けた外国会社にあっては、当該営業所の所在地）」と読み替えるものとする。
When a matter that should be registered pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraphs arises in a foreign country, the period for registration is counted from the day on which the notice thereof reached a representative in Japan.
前各項の規定により登記すべき事項が外国において生じたときは、登記の期間は、その通知が日本における代表者に到達した日から起算する。
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company
「会社」
Any of the four kinds of company this Act governs: a stock company (株式会社), a general partnership company (合名会社), a limited partnership company (合資会社) or a limited liability company (合同会社).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
foreign company
「外国会社」
A corporation or other body formed under a foreign country's law that is of the same kind as, or similar to, a company under this Act.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)· applies throughout the law
means of giving public notice
「公告方法」
The way a company, including a foreign company, gives those public notices that no law requires to be published in the Official Gazette, such as in a daily newspaper or by electronic public notice.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxiii)· applies throughout the law
electronic public notice
「電子公告」
Giving public notice by making it available online to anyone, in the way set by Ministry of Justice Order (法務省令).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxxiv)· applies throughout the law
registration
登記
Entry in a public register kept by a registry office (登記所) — a Legal Affairs Bureau or one of its branch offices — so that the matter is made public (Real Property Registration Act, Articles 1 and 6, paragraph (1)). Rights in land and buildings, such as ownership, a superficies (地上権), a statutory lien (先取特権), a mortgage and a right of lease (賃借権), can be registered under that Act (Article 3), and matters the Commercial Code, the Companies Act and other Acts require to be registered are registered under the Commercial Registration Act (Article 1). Registration also lets a right be asserted against third parties: acquiring, losing or changing a right in rem (物権) in land or a building, such as ownership, cannot be asserted against third parties until it is registered (Civil Code, Article 177), and a matter the Companies Act requires to be registered cannot be asserted against a third party who does not know of it until it has been registered, nor, even after that, against one who had a justifiable reason for not knowing of the registration (Companies Act, Article 908, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Real Property Registration Act, Arts. 1, 3, 6, Commercial Registration Act, Art. 1, Civil Code, Art. 177 and Companies Act, Art. 908 as a reference.