# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第四百五十三条 (Article 453) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-453. 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: 第四百五十三条 (Article 453)（株主に対する剰余金の配当） — address `art-453` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-453 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-453 - 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. --- ### 第四百五十三条（株主に対する剰余金の配当） — (Dividends of Surplus to Shareholders) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-453 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-453 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-453 **第一項** 株式会社は、その株主（当該株式会社を除く。）に対し、剰余金の配当をすることができる。 art-453/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-453/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-453/par-1 A stock company may distribute dividends of surplus to its shareholders (excluding relevant stock company). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第四百五十四条第一項（剰余金の配当に関する事項の決定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-454/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-454/par-1 - 会社法 第四百五十八条第一項（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-458/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-458/par-1 --- ## 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 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17