# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百三十九条 (Article 339) - 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: 第三百三十九条 (Article 339)（解任） — address `art-339` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-339 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-339 - 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. --- ### 第三百三十九条（解任） — (Dismissal) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-339 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-339 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-339 **第一項** 役員及び会計監査人は、いつでも、株主総会の決議によって解任することができる。 art-339/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-339/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-339/par-1 Officers and financial auditors may be dismissed at any time by a resolution at a shareholders meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により解任された者は、その解任について正当な理由がある場合を除き、株式会社に対し、解任によって生じた損害の賠償を請求することができる。 art-339/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-339/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-339/par-2 A person dismissed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is entitled to demand damages arising from the dismissal from the stock company, except in cases where there are justifiable grounds for the dismissal. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-339/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第三百三十九条第一項 (Article 339, paragraph (1)), art-339/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-339/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-339/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第三百九条第二項第七号（株主総会の決議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-309/par-2/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-309/par-2/item-7 - 会社法 第三百二十四条第二項第五号（種類株主総会の決議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-324/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-324/par-2/item-5 - 会社法 第三百三十九条第二項（解任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-339/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-339/par-2 - 会社法 第三百四十七条第一項（種類株主総会における取締役又は監査役の選任等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-347/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-347/par-1 - 会社法 第三百四十七条第二項（種類株主総会における取締役又は監査役の選任等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-347/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-347/par-2 - 会社法 第八百五十四条第三項（株式会社の役員の解任の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-854/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-854/par-3 - 会社法 第八百五十四条第四項（株式会社の役員の解任の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-854/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-854/par-4 --- ## 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