# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第七条 (Article 7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-7. 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（会社と誤認させる名称等の使用の禁止） — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（会社と誤認させる名称等の使用の禁止） — (No Use of Name Which Is Likely to Be Mistaken for a Company) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-7 **第一項** 会社でない者は、その名称又は商号中に、会社であると誤認されるおそれのある文字を用いてはならない。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-7/par-1 No person who is not a company may use in its name or trade name any word which makes it likely that the person may be mistaken as a company. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第九百七十八条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-978/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-978/par-1/item-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