# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百九十六条 (Article 596) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-596. 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: 第五百九十六条 (Article 596)（業務を執行する社員の持分会社に対する損害賠償責任） — address `art-596` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-596 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-596 - 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. --- ### 第五百九十六条（業務を執行する社員の持分会社に対する損害賠償責任） — (Liability of Members Who Execute Operations to Membership Companies for Damages) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-596 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-596 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-596 **第一項** 業務を執行する社員は、その任務を怠ったときは、持分会社に対し、連帯して、これによって生じた損害を賠償する責任を負う。 art-596/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-596/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-596/par-1 If members who execute the business fail to perform their duties, they are jointly and severally liable to the membership company for losses arising as a result. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百九十八条第二項（法人が業務を執行する社員である場合の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-598/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-598/par-2 - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二十五第一項（一般社団法人及び一般財団法人に関する法律及び会社法の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-25/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