# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第四百七十二条 (Article 472) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-472. 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: 第四百七十二条 (Article 472)（休眠会社のみなし解散） — address `art-472` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-472 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-472 - 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. --- ### 第四百七十二条（休眠会社のみなし解散） — (Deemed Dissolution of Dormant Companies) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-472 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-472 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-472 **第一項** 休眠会社（株式会社であって、当該株式会社に関する登記が最後にあった日から十二年を経過したものをいう。以下この条において同じ。）は、法務大臣が休眠会社に対し二箇月以内に法務省令で定めるところによりその本店の所在地を管轄する登記所に事業を廃止していない旨の届出をすべき旨を官報に公告した場合において、その届出をしないときは、その二箇月の期間の満了の時に、解散したものとみなす。ただし、当該期間内に当該休眠会社に関する登記がされたときは、この限りでない。 art-472/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-472/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-472/par-1 If the Minister of Justice gives a public notice to a dormant company (meaning a stock company for which twelve years have elapsed from the day when a registration regarding relevant stock company was last effected; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) in Official Gazette to the effect that the dormant company should submit a notice to the effect that it has not abolished its business pursuant to the provisions of Ministry of Justice Order to the register office that has jurisdiction over the area where dormant company's head office is located within two months, if that dormant company fails to submit that notice, the dormant company is deemed to have dissolved upon expiration of that two month period; provided, however, that this does not apply if any registration regarding relevant dormant company is effected during relevant period. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 登記所は、前項の規定による公告があったときは、休眠会社に対し、その旨の通知を発しなければならない。 art-472/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-472/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-472/par-2 If the public notice has been given under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the register office must issue a notice to that effect to dormant companies. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-472/par-1: この条 → 会社法 第四百七十二条 (Article 472), art-472 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-472 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-472 - art-472/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第四百七十二条第一項 (Article 472, paragraph (1)), art-472/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-472/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-472/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第四百七十二条第一項（休眠会社のみなし解散） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-472/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-472/par-1 - 会社法 第四百七十二条第二項（休眠会社のみなし解散） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-472/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-472/par-2 - 会社法 第四百七十三条第一項（株式会社の継続） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-473/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-473/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