# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第七百五十二条 (Article 752) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-752. 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: 第七百五十二条 (Article 752)（持分会社が存続する吸収合併の効力の発生等） — address `art-752` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-752 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-752 - 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. --- ### 第七百五十二条（持分会社が存続する吸収合併の効力の発生等） — (Effectuation of an Absorption-Type Merger in Which a Membership Company Survives) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-752 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-752 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-752 **第一項** 吸収合併存続持分会社は、効力発生日に、吸収合併消滅会社の権利義務を承継する。 art-752/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-752/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-752/par-1 A membership company surviving an absorption-type merger succeeds to the rights and obligations of the company disappearing in the absorption-type merger on the effective day. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 吸収合併消滅会社の吸収合併による解散は、吸収合併の登記の後でなければ、これをもって第三者に対抗することができない。 art-752/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-752/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-752/par-2 The dissolution, by absorption-type merger, of the company disappearing in an absorption-type merger may not be duly asserted against a third party until the registration of the absorption-type merger has been completed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前条第一項第二号に規定する場合には、吸収合併消滅株式会社の株主又は吸収合併消滅持分会社の社員は、効力発生日に、同号に掲げる事項についての定めに従い、吸収合併存続持分会社の社員となる。この場合においては、吸収合併存続持分会社は、効力発生日に、同号の社員に係る定款の変更をしたものとみなす。 art-752/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-752/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-752/par-3 In the case prescribed in paragraph (1), item (ii) of the preceding Article, the shareholders of the stock company disappearing in the absorption-type merger or members of the membership company disappearing in the absorption-type merger, in accordance with the provisions on the matters set forth in that item, become members of the membership company surviving the absorption-type merger on the effective day. In these cases, the membership company surviving the absorption-type merger is deemed to have effected changes to the articles of incorporation relating to the members referred to in that item on the effective day. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前条第一項第三号イに掲げる事項についての定めがある場合には、吸収合併消滅株式会社の株主又は吸収合併消滅持分会社の社員は、効力発生日に、同項第四号に掲げる事項についての定めに従い、同項第三号イの社債の社債権者となる。 art-752/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-752/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-752/par-4 If there are provisions on the matter set forth in paragraph (1), item (iii), (a) of the preceding Article, the shareholders of the stock company disappearing in the absorption-type merger or members of the membership company disappearing in the absorption-type merger, in accordance with the provisions on the matter set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph, become holders of bonds referred to in item (iii), (a) of that paragraph on the effective day. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 吸収合併消滅株式会社の新株予約権は、効力発生日に、消滅する。 art-752/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-752/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-752/par-5 The share options of a stock company disappearing in an absorption-type merger are extinguished on the effective day. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 前各項の規定は、第七百八十九条（第一項第三号及び第二項第三号を除き、第七百九十三条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）若しくは第八百二条第二項において準用する第七百九十九条（第二項第三号を除く。）の規定による手続が終了していない場合又は吸収合併を中止した場合には、適用しない。 art-752/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-752/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-752/par-6 The provisions of the preceding paragraphs do not apply if procedures under the provisions of Article 789 (excluding paragraph (1), item (iii) and paragraph (2), item (iii), and including the case where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 793, paragraph (2)) or Article 799 (excluding paragraph (2), item (iii)) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 802, paragraph (2) are not completed yet or where the absorption-type merger is cancelled. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-752/par-3: 前条第一項第二号 → 会社法 第七百五十一条第一項第二号 (Article 751, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-751/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-751/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-751/par-1/item-2 - art-752/par-4: 前条第一項第三号 → 会社法 第七百五十一条第一項第三号 (Article 751, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-751/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-751/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-751/par-1/item-3 - art-752/par-4: 同項第四号 → 会社法 第七百五十一条第一項第四号 (Article 751, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-751/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-751/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-751/par-1/item-4 - art-752/par-6: 前各項 → 会社法 第七百五十二条第一項 (Article 752, paragraph (1)), art-752/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-752/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-752/par-1 - art-752/par-6: 前各項 → 会社法 第七百五十二条第二項 (Article 752, paragraph (2)), art-752/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-752/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-752/par-2 - art-752/par-6: 前各項 → 会社法 第七百五十二条第三項 (Article 752, paragraph (3)), art-752/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-752/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-752/par-3 - art-752/par-6: 前各項 → 会社法 第七百五十二条第四項 (Article 752, paragraph (4)), art-752/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-752/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-752/par-4 - art-752/par-6: 前各項 → 会社法 第七百五十二条第五項 (Article 752, paragraph (5)), art-752/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-752/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-752/par-5 - art-752/par-6: 第七百八十九条 → 会社法 第七百八十九条 (Article 789), art-789 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-789 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-789 - art-752/par-6: 第一項第三号 → 会社法 第七百八十九条第一項第三号 (Article 789, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-789/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-789/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-789/par-1/item-3 - art-752/par-6: 第二項第三号 → 会社法 第七百八十九条第二項第三号 (Article 789, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-789/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-789/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-789/par-2/item-3 - art-752/par-6: 第七百九十三条第二項 → 会社法 第七百九十三条第二項 (Article 793, paragraph (2)), art-793/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-793/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-793/par-2 - art-752/par-6: 第八百二条第二項 → 会社法 第八百二条第二項 (Article 802, paragraph (2)), art-802/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-802/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-802/par-2 - art-752/par-6: 第七百九十九条 → 会社法 第七百九十九条 (Article 799), art-799 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-799 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-799 - art-752/par-6: 第二項第三号 → 会社法 第七百九十九条第二項第三号 (Article 799, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-799/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-799/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-799/par-2/item-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第七百五十二条第六項（持分会社が存続する吸収合併の効力の発生等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-752/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-752/par-6 - 会社法 第七百九十条第三項（吸収合併等の効力発生日の変更） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-790/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-790/par-3 --- ## 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Companies Act — Ministry of Justice translation (part 2 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4482/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