# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第九十七条 (Article 97) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-97. 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: 第九十七条 (Article 97)（設立時発行株式の引受けの取消し） — address `art-97` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-97 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-97 - 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. --- ### 第九十七条（設立時発行株式の引受けの取消し） — (Rescission of Subscription for Shares Issued at Incorporation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-97 **第一項** 創立総会において、第二十八条各号に掲げる事項を変更する定款の変更の決議をした場合には、当該創立総会においてその変更に反対した設立時株主は、当該決議後二週間以内に限り、その設立時発行株式の引受けに係る意思表示を取り消すことができる。 art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-97/par-1 If it is resolved at the organizational meeting to effect an amendment in the articles of incorporation to change the matters set forth in each item of Article 28, the shareholders at incorporation who dissented from that amendment at relevant organizational meeting may rescind the manifestation of their intention relating to the subscription for relevant shares issued at incorporation only within two weeks after relevant resolution. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-97/par-1: 第二十八条 → 会社法 第二十八条 (Article 28), art-28 — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-28 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第九百十一条第二項第三号（株式会社の設立の登記） — https://japanlaw.org/en/companies-act/art-911/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-911/par-2/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