# 銀行法 / Banking Act — 第六条 (Article 6) - Law: 銀行法 (Banking Act), 昭和五十六年法律第五十九号 - English title "Banking 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: 第六条 (Article 6)（商号） — address `art-6` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条（商号） — (Trade Name) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-6 **第一項** 銀行は、その商号中に銀行という文字を使用しなければならない。 art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-6/par-1 A bank must use the characters "銀行" (with a pronunciation of "ginkou" and literally meaning a "bank") in its trade name. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 銀行でない者は、その名称又は商号中に銀行であることを示す文字を使用してはならない。 art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-6/par-2 A person that is not a bank must not use the characters that indicate them to be a bank in their name or trade name. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 銀行は、その商号を変更しようとするときは、内閣総理大臣の認可を受けなければならない。 art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-6/par-3 A bank must obtain the authorization by the Prime Minister if it seeks to change its trade name. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 銀行法 第四十七条第二項（外国銀行の免許等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-47/par-2 - 銀行法 第六十五条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-65/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-65/par-1/item-1 - 銀行法 第六十六条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/banking-act/art-66/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/356AC0000000059/art-66/par-1/item-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 銀行法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/356AC0000000059/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Banking Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4498/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 銀行法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11