# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第二十五条 (Article 25) - 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: 第二十五条 (Article 25) — address `art-25` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-25 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-25 - 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. --- ### 第二十五条 art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-25 **第一項** 株式会社は、次に掲げるいずれかの方法により設立することができる。 art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-25/par-1 A stock company may be incorporated by either of the following methods: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 次節から第八節までに規定するところにより、発起人が設立時発行株式（株式会社の設立に際して発行する株式をいう。以下同じ。）の全部を引き受ける方法 art-25/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-25/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-25/par-1/item-1 the method by which incorporator subscribe for all shares issued at incorporation (meaning the shares which are issued at incorporation of a stock company; the same applies hereinafter) pursuant to the provisions of the following Section through Section 8; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 次節、第三節、第三十九条及び第六節から第九節までに規定するところにより、発起人が設立時発行株式を引き受けるほか、設立時発行株式を引き受ける者の募集をする方法 art-25/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-25/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-25/par-1/item-2 the method by which, in addition to the subscription by incorporator for the shares issued at incorporation, person who will subscribe for the shares issued at incorporation is solicited pursuant to the provisions of the following Section, Section 3, Article 39 and Section 6 through Section 9. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 各発起人は、株式会社の設立に際し、設立時発行株式を一株以上引き受けなければならない。 art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-25/par-2 Each incorporator must subscribe for one or more shares issued at incorporation in the incorporation of a stock company. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-25/par-1/item-2: 第三十九条 → 会社法 第三十九条 (Article 39), art-39 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-39 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第四百六十七条第一項第五号（事業譲渡等の承認等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-467/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-467/par-1/item-5 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 211 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17