# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第五百九十八条 (Article 598) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-598. 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: 第五百九十八条 (Article 598)（法人が業務を執行する社員である場合の特則） — address `art-598` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-598 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-598 - 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. --- ### 第五百九十八条（法人が業務を執行する社員である場合の特則） — (Special Provisions Where Corporations Are Members Executing Business) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-598 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-598 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-598 **第一項** 法人が業務を執行する社員である場合には、当該法人は、当該業務を執行する社員の職務を行うべき者を選任し、その者の氏名及び住所を他の社員に通知しなければならない。 art-598/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-598/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-598/par-1 If corporations act as members who execute the business, relevant corporations must appoint persons who are to perform the duties of members who execute relevant business and notify other members of the names and addresses of these persons. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第五百九十三条から前条までの規定は、前項の規定により選任された社員の職務を行うべき者について準用する。 art-598/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-598/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-598/par-2 The provisions from Article 593 through the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the persons who are to perform the duties of members appointed under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-598/par-2: 第五百九十三条から前条まで → 会社法 第五百九十三条 (Article 593), art-593 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-593 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-593 - art-598/par-2: 第五百九十三条から前条まで → 会社法 第五百九十四条 (Article 594), art-594 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-594 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-594 - art-598/par-2: 第五百九十三条から前条まで → 会社法 第五百九十五条 (Article 595), art-595 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-595 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-595 - art-598/par-2: 第五百九十三条から前条まで → 会社法 第五百九十六条 (Article 596), art-596 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-596 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-596 - art-598/par-2: 第五百九十三条から前条まで → 会社法 第五百九十七条 (Article 597), art-597 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-597 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-597 - art-598/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第五百九十八条第一項 (Article 598, paragraph (1)), art-598/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-598/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-598/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第五百九十八条第二項（法人が業務を執行する社員である場合の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-598/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-598/par-2 - 会社法 第八百五十九条第一項第二号（持分会社の社員の除名の訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-859/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-859/par-1/item-2 - 社会保険労務士法 第二十五条の二十五第一項（一般社団法人及び一般財団法人に関する法律及び会社法の準用等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/art-25-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/343AC1000000089/art-25-25/par-1 --- ## 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