# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第三百五十四条 (Article 354) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-354. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - 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: 第三百五十四条 (Article 354)（表見代表取締役） — address `art-354` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-354 - e-Gov law ID: 417AC0000000086 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第三百五十四条（表見代表取締役） — (Apparent Representative Directors) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-354 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-354 **第一項** 株式会社は、代表取締役以外の取締役に社長、副社長その他株式会社を代表する権限を有するものと認められる名称を付した場合には、当該取締役がした行為について、善意の第三者に対してその責任を負う。 art-354/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-354/par-1 If a stock company gives the title of president, vice president or other title regarded as having authority to represent the stock company to a director who is not a representative director, the stock company is liable to third parties in good faith for the acts of relevant director. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第四百八十二条第四項（業務の執行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-482/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 224 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17