# 民法 / Civil Code — 第三十五条 (Article 35) - Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号 - English title "Civil Code": 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: 第三十五条 (Article 35)（外国法人） — address `art-35` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-35 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-35 - 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. --- ### 第三十五条（外国法人） — (Foreign Corporations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-35 **第一項** 外国法人は、国、国の行政区画及び外国会社を除き、その成立を認許しない。ただし、法律又は条約の規定により認許された外国法人は、この限りでない。 art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-35/par-1 With the exception of states, any administrative division of states, and foreign companies, the formation of a foreign corporation is not recognized; provided, however, that, this does not apply to any foreign corporation that are recognized pursuant to the provisions of a law or treaty. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により認許された外国法人は、日本において成立する同種の法人と同一の私権を有する。ただし、外国人が享有することのできない権利及び法律又は条約中に特別の規定がある権利については、この限りでない。 art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-35/par-2 A foreign corporation recognized pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph possesses the same private rights as those possessed by a corporation of the same kind which can be formed in Japan; provided, however, that, this does not apply to any right that a foreign national is not entitled to enjoy or to any right for which there are special provisions in a law or treaty. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-35/par-2: 前項 → 民法 第三十五条第一項 (Article 35, paragraph (1)), art-35/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-35/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第三十五条第二項（外国法人） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-35/par-2 - 民法 第三十七条第一項（外国法人の登記） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-37/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11