# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百十条 (Article 510) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-510. 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: 第五百十条 (Article 510)（特別清算開始の原因） — address `art-510` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-510 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-510 - 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. --- ### 第五百十条（特別清算開始の原因） — (Cause of Commencement of Special Liquidation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-510 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-510 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-510 **第一項** 裁判所は、清算株式会社に次に掲げる事由があると認めるときは、第五百十四条の規定に基づき、申立てにより、当該清算株式会社に対し特別清算の開始を命ずる。 art-510/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-510/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-510/par-1 If the court finds that the grounds set forth below exist with respect to a liquidating stock company, it orders relevant liquidating stock company to commence special liquidation in response to the filing under the provisions of Article 514: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 清算の遂行に著しい支障を来すべき事情があること。 art-510/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-510/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-510/par-1/item-1 the existence of circumstances prejudicial to the implementation of the liquidation; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 債務超過（清算株式会社の財産がその債務を完済するのに足りない状態をいう。次条第二項において同じ。）の疑いがあること。 art-510/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-510/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-510/par-1/item-2 the suspicion that the liquidating stock company is insolvent (meaning the status where the assets of the liquidating stock company is not sufficient to fully discharge its debts; the same applies in paragraph (2) of the following Article). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-510/par-1: 第五百十四条 → 会社法 第五百十四条 (Article 514), art-514 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-514 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-514 - art-510/par-1/item-2: 次条第二項 → 会社法 第五百十一条第二項 (Article 511, paragraph (2)), art-511/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-511/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-511/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第八百二十二条第三項（日本にある外国会社の財産についての清算） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-822/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-822/par-3 - 銀行法 第五十一条第三項（外国銀行支店の清算） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-51/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-51/par-3 --- ## 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