# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百七十五条 (Article 575) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-575. 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: 第五百七十五条 (Article 575)（定款の作成） — address `art-575` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-575 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-575 - 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. --- ### 第五百七十五条（定款の作成） — (Preparation of Articles of Incorporation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-575 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-575 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-575 **第一項** 合名会社、合資会社又は合同会社（以下「持分会社」と総称する。）を設立するには、その社員になろうとする者が定款を作成し、その全員がこれに署名し、又は記名押印しなければならない。 art-575/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-575/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-575/par-1 In order to incorporate an general partnership company, limited partnership company or limited liability company (hereinafter collectively referred to as "membership company"), persons who intend to be its members must prepare articles of incorporation which must be signed by or record the names of and be affixed with the seals, of all members. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の定款は、電磁的記録をもって作成することができる。この場合において、当該電磁的記録に記録された情報については、法務省令で定める署名又は記名押印に代わる措置をとらなければならない。 art-575/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-575/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-575/par-2 The articles of incorporation in the preceding paragraph may be prepared as an electronic or magnetic record. In these cases, measures prescribed by Ministry of Justice Order must be taken in lieu of signing, or the recording of names and affixing of seals, with respect to the data recorded in that electronic or magnetic record. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-575/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第五百七十五条第一項 (Article 575, paragraph (1)), art-575/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-575/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-575/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百七十五条第二項（定款の作成） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-575/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-575/par-2 - 会社法 第八百十六条第一項（持分会社の設立の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-816/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-816/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第四十六条第三項第六号ロ（登録設計審査等機関の登録） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-46/par-3/item-6/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-46/par-3/item-6/sub-2 - 食品衛生法 第三十三条第一項第三号ロ — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-33/par-1/item-3/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-33/par-1/item-3/sub-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