# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第九百五十三条 (Article 953) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-953. 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: 第九百五十三条 (Article 953)（改善命令） — address `art-953` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-953 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-953 - 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. --- ### 第九百五十三条（改善命令） — (Order for Improvement) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-953 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-953 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-953 **第一項** 法務大臣は、調査機関が第九百四十六条の規定に違反していると認めるときは、その調査機関に対し、電子公告調査を行うべきこと又は電子公告調査の方法その他の業務の方法の改善に関し必要な措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。 art-953/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-953/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-953/par-1 When the Minister of Justice finds that an investigation body violates the provisions of Article 946, the minister may order the investigation body to carry out electronic public notice investigations or to take necessary measures to improve the method of electronic public notice investigation or the method of any other business. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-953/par-1: 第九百四十六条 → 会社法 第九百四十六条 (Article 946), art-946 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-946 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-946 ## Cited by 10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第九百五十四条第一項第四号（登録の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-954/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-954/par-1/item-4 - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二十三の二第六項（債権者の異議等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-23-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-23-2/par-6 - 資金決済に関する法律 第二十条第四項（保有者に対する前払式支払手段の払戻し） — https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-20/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-20/par-4 - 資金決済に関する法律 第六十一条第七項（廃止の届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-61/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-61/par-7 - 資金決済に関する法律 第六十二条の二十五第七項（廃止の届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-62-25/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-62-25/par-7 - 資金決済に関する法律 第六十三条の二十第七項（廃止の届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/payment-services-act/art-63-20/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/421AC0000000059/art-63-20/par-7 - 金融商品取引法 第五十条の二第十項（廃業等の届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-50-2/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-50-2/par-10 - 金融商品取引法 第六十六条の四十第六項（廃業等の届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-66-40/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-66-40/par-6 - 銀行法 第四十九条の二第二項（外国銀行支店の公告方法） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-49-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-49-2/par-2 - 銀行法 第五十二条の六十の三十六第七項（廃止の届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/banking-act/art-52-60-36/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-52-60-36/par-7 --- ## 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