# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第七百一条 (Article 701) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-701. 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: 第七百一条 (Article 701)（社債の償還請求権等の消滅時効） — address `art-701` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-701 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-701 - 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. --- ### 第七百一条（社債の償還請求権等の消滅時効） — (Extinctive Prescription of Right to Claim Redemption of Bonds) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-701 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-701 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-701 **第一項** 社債の償還請求権は、これを行使することができる時から十年間行使しないときは、時効によって消滅する。 art-701/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-701/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-701/par-1 The right to claim the redemption of bonds will be extinguished by prescription if not exercised for ten years from the time that this right can be exercised. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 社債の利息の請求権及び前条第二項の規定による請求権は、これらを行使することができる時から五年間行使しないときは、時効によって消滅する。 art-701/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-701/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-701/par-2 The right to claim interest on bonds and the right to claim under the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article will be extinguished by prescription if not exercised for five years from the time that these rights can be exercised. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-701/par-2: 前条第二項 → 会社法 第七百条第二項 (Article 700, paragraph (2)), art-700/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-700/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-700/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第五十四条の七第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-54-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-54-7/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