# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第四百七十三条 (Article 473) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-473. 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: 第四百七十三条 (Article 473)（株式会社の継続） — address `art-473` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-473 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-473 - 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. --- ### 第四百七十三条（株式会社の継続） — (Continuation of Companies) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-473 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-473 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-473 **第一項** 株式会社は、第四百七十一条第一号から第三号までに掲げる事由によって解散した場合（前条第一項の規定により解散したものとみなされた場合を含む。）には、次章の規定による清算が結了するまで（同項の規定により解散したものとみなされた場合にあっては、解散したものとみなされた後三年以内に限る。）、株主総会の決議によって、株式会社を継続することができる。 art-473/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-473/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-473/par-1 If a stock company dissolves on the grounds set forth in Article 471, item (i) through item (iii) (including the cases where stock companies are deemed to have dissolved under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article), the stock company may continue in existence by a resolution at a shareholders meeting until the completion of the liquidation under the provisions of the following Chapter (if the stock company is deemed to have dissolved pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, limited to the completion within three years from the time of the deemed dissolution). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-473/par-1: 第四百七十一条第一号から第三号まで → 会社法 第四百七十一条第一項第一号 (Article 471, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-471/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-471/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-471/par-1/item-1 - art-473/par-1: 第四百七十一条第一号から第三号まで → 会社法 第四百七十一条第一項第二号 (Article 471, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-471/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-471/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-471/par-1/item-2 - art-473/par-1: 第四百七十一条第一号から第三号まで → 会社法 第四百七十一条第一項第三号 (Article 471, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-471/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-471/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-471/par-1/item-3 - art-473/par-1: 前条第一項 → 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 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第九百二十七条第一項（継続の登記） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-927/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-927/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