# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百五十九条 (Article 559) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-559. 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: 第五百五十九条 (Article 559)（担保権を有する債権者等の出席等） — address `art-559` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-559 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-559 - 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. --- ### 第五百五十九条（担保権を有する債権者等の出席等） — (Attendance of Creditors who Hold Security Interest) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-559 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-559 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-559 **第一項** 債権者集会又は招集者は、次に掲げる債権者の出席を求め、その意見を聴くことができる。この場合において、債権者集会にあっては、これをする旨の決議を経なければならない。 art-559/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-559/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-559/par-1 Creditors meetings or conveners may demand that the following creditors are present at the meeting and hear their opinions. In these cases, a resolution must be passed to that effect at a creditors meeting: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第五百二十二条第二項に規定する担保権を有する債権者 art-559/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-559/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-559/par-1/item-1 creditors that hold security interest provided for in Article 522, paragraph (2); and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 一般の先取特権その他一般の優先権がある債権、特別清算の手続のために清算株式会社に対して生じた債権又は特別清算の手続に関する清算株式会社に対する費用請求権を有する債権者 art-559/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-559/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-559/par-1/item-2 creditors who hold general liens and other claims that have general priority, claims that have arisen in relation to the liquidating stock company for the procedures for special liquidation or rights to seek from the liquidating stock company reimbursement of expense for the procedures for special liquidation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-559/par-1/item-1: 第五百二十二条第二項 → 会社法 第五百二十二条第二項 (Article 522, paragraph (2)), art-522/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-522/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-522/par-2 --- ## 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