# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第八条 (Article 8) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-8. 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: 第八条 (Article 8) — address `art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条 art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-8 **第一項** 何人も、不正の目的をもって、他の会社であると誤認されるおそれのある名称又は商号を使用してはならない。 art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-8/par-1 No person may use, with a wrongful purpose, any name or trade name which makes it likely that the person may be mistaken for the other company. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定に違反する名称又は商号の使用によって営業上の利益を侵害され、又は侵害されるおそれがある会社は、その営業上の利益を侵害する者又は侵害するおそれがある者に対し、その侵害の停止又は予防を請求することができる。 art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-8/par-2 Any company the enterprise interests of which have been, or are likely to be, infringed by the use of any name or trade name in violation of the provisions of the preceding paragraph may seek an injunction suspending or preventing the infringement against the person who infringes, or is likely to infringe, those enterprise interests. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-8/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-8/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五条第一項（商行為） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-5/par-1 - 会社法 第八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-8/par-2 - 会社法 第九百七十八条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-978/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-978/par-1/item-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 - This site's parser, version 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17