# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第八百二十一条 (Article 821) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-821. 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: 第八百二十一条 (Article 821)（擬似外国会社） — address `art-821` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-821 - e-Gov law ID: 417AC0000000086 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第八百二十一条（擬似外国会社） — (Pseudo-Foreign Company) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-821 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-821 **第一項** 日本に本店を置き、又は日本において事業を行うことを主たる目的とする外国会社は、日本において取引を継続してすることができない。 art-821/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-821/par-1 A foreign company that has its head office in Japan or whose main purpose is to conduct business in Japan may not carry out transactions continuously in Japan. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定に違反して取引をした者は、相手方に対し、外国会社と連帯して、当該取引によって生じた債務を弁済する責任を負う。 art-821/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-821/par-2 A person who has carried out transactions in violation of the provisions of the preceding paragraph is liable, jointly and severally with the foreign company, to perform obligations that have arisen from relevant transactions to the counterparty. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-821/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第八百二十一条第一項 (Article 821, paragraph (1)), art-821/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-821/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第八百二十一条第二項（擬似外国会社） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-821/par-2 - 会社法 第九百七十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-979/par-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 - 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 229 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17